Donate Life Scholarship 2025

With our partners and community, we honor, save, and heal lives by empowering people, enhancing capabilities, and expanding the impact of organ, tissue, and eye donation. Teaching the facts about donation and sharing personal stories of lives changed through giving and receiving the gift of life will help motivate others to register as a donor. This scholarship is an opportunity to connect with local high school students and passionate advocates who promote the mission of organ donation, educating their peers, and inspiring others to register as organ, tissue, and eye donors.

Two scholarships will be awarded in the spring of 2025 valued at $2,000 each. Donation education and outreach efforts are major factors in determining scholarship awards.

Guidelines for Qualification

Scholarship Recipient

Must reside in one of the following counties: OH (Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Lawrence, and Warren), and IN (Dearborn or Ohio). Kentucky students can apply to the Donate Life Kentucky Scholarship here.
Not a current employee (or an immediate family member) or Board Member of Network for Hope.
Be a current High School Senior (in one of the above listed counties) in good academic standing and attending college, trade school, cosmetology school, or other certification program in the fall of 2025.
Verification of good academic standing is confirmed through a verification form (here) from your school counselor. (If awarded the scholarship, funds will be paid directly to the program/institution that the winners will be attending.)

To access our Brand Guidelines, including logos, for your application, please go here.

Application deadline: 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2025.

Please submit your application below. If you have any issues with the form, please reach out to Julie Luebbers at jluebbers@networkforhope.org.

First & Last Name

Email Address

Address

Phone Number (with area code)

What are your intended plans after graduation?

Please include the name of the school, if known

Why is organ, tissue, and eye donation important to you? How have you or someone you know been impacted by donation? How have you promoted Network for Hope's mission? Briefly explain the two activities you did to help educate others about donation and the need to register. (Please answer the question in 1,000 or fewer words.) Upload using .docx, pdf, or .doc

Upload verification (through photos, artwork, TikTok video, screenshots, community leader letter, PDF, social media posts, etc.) of two examples of how you carried out the mission of educating others about organ, tissue, and eye donation.

Please have your school counselor fill out the Academic Standing Form and attach it below.

Examples of outreach activities:

Host a donor drive in the community to get people registered—take a picture of this event
Create a TikTok video about donation and screenshot the number of views
Create an original piece of art with a donation message
Display donation posters at your school cafeteria, restrooms, or main office--take pictures
Come volunteer at an event with Network for Hope. Visit our volunteer website, Galaxy Digital at volunteer.networkforhope.org, for available opportunities.
Organize a Donate Life night at an after school activity event --take a picture of this event
Design and display a bulletin board about donation in a public space (seek permission in advance and take a picture)
Host an info session/donor drive at your school and spread the word about Donate Life month (April)-take a picture of this event
Create a commercial/PSA to promote donation and the Registry and post on social media
Host a school-wide contest that is Donate Life themed -an administrator can send a letter/email verifying this was done
Insert a daily ‘organ donation fact’ in the school announcements for a week- an administrator can send a letter/email verifying this was done
Get creative! Come up with your own idea to promote organ, tissue, and eye donation and registration.

Student Scholarship Checklist

Do I live in one of the listed counties in OH or IN? Did I use the official Donate Life logo in all my promotional materials? Did I complete (and submit proof of) two activities that promote awareness of organ, eye and tissue donation? Did I answer the essay prompt in fewer than 1,000 words? Did I request that my counselor complete the Verification letter or email stating that I am in good academic standing at my high school?

By submitting this form, you authorize Network for Hope to reproduce, publish, edit, and exhibit the name, photographs, and story in connection with traditional, digital, and social media advertising and marketing.

I certify that I am eligible to apply based on the above requirements.