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The mission of Founder Region Fellowship is to advance the status of women. View History of Program.
This will be accomplished through financial support, to women in the last year of their doctoral degree. A by-product of this support is affirmation of the importance of the recipients work and value as an individual. Our hope is to support women who are working in fields that have great social importance to the world. We hope that the recipient's work will reflect and further Soroptimist ideals. We believe that these women will become a strong voice for all women.
The Endowment Fund offers fellowships for women enrolled in a graduate school within the boundary of Founder Region and who are in the last year of their doctoral program. These grants-in-aid are proffered to assist women in the completion of their doctoral degrees.
The awards are announced and formally presented at the annual Founder Region Spring Conference. The grant requirements are:
Competition is open to any outstanding graduate woman who is a citizen of a nation with membership in Soroptimist International and who is working toward a doctoral degree, preferably in the last year of study but permissibly during the last two years. She must be enrolled in a graduate school within Founder Region, (Northern California (including the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake,
Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma), the state of Hawaii, and the U.
S. territories of Guam and the Marianas).
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Candidates considered for final selection will be required to appear for a personal interview
on a date requested by the Fellowship board.
- March 7 or 8, 2008 if in Hawaii
- March 14 or 15, 2008 in California
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The awards are announced and formally presented in May at the annual Founder Region Spring Conference.
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