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Southwest Georgetown Youth Organization Inc. Scholarship Application

OVERVIEW

Southwest Georgetown Youth Organization Inc. (SGYO) provides scholarships for registration fees to children, who without financial assistance would be unable to participate in SGYO sports programs. In certain cases the scholarship may also provide assistance for basic equipment required to participate in SGYO sports.

SGYO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit youth organization with limited funding available for scholarships. No guarantee of assistance is implied by this application. If the number of scholarship applications submitted and approved exceeds the amount available, the scholarships will be awarded by a lottery system. SGYO does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability in its program and activities.

ELIGIBILITY Requirements for eligibility:

• Athletes must be of eligible age to participate in a SGYO Sports Program

• Parents/Guardians commit that the athlete will attend all scheduled practices, Fundraisers, Parades, Community Events and Games or Meets for recreational sports. 

• Parents/Guardians commit that the athlete will attend a minimum of 90% of all scheduled practices and games for recreational sports and 95% of all scheduled practices and games for competitive sports

• Parents/Guardians agree to volunteer their time, per scholarship recipient, with a maximum of 30 hours per family per sports season. 

Time will support SGYO related activities, Fundraisers, Community Events, Tailgating, Organizations Events, Parades and must be completed during the sports season in which the scholarship was granted has completed.

• The amount awarded per recipient will be the cost of that sport. A family will have a amount cap of $599.00 per calendar year. SGYO will issue a form to all individuals or families that received $599.99 or any other amount of funds or compensation in a calendar year.

QUALIFICATIONS : Please provide all information required to help SGYO determine qualifications. Scholarship consideration will be given to families that meet the following criteria:

• Minimal annual income 

• Provide recommendation by school representative, social worker, youth community center workers or other social service representative. 

• Provide a written statement of immediate financial hardship explaining the current situation.

• SGYO recognizes that a family may not be receiving formal assistance from the programs mentioned above, yet financial assistance may still be needed to participate in a SGYO Sports Program. In these instances, the SGYO scholarship board will consider the financial hardship statement to determine scholarship eligibility. Please provide any supporting documentation that may support the facts in your financial hardship statement.

• Complete the application process and read and sign the Terms and Conditions statement. Incomplete applications will automatically be denied.

Southwest Georgetown Youth Organization Inc. 

(updated 12/2021)

• Complete the application process and read and sign the Terms and Conditions statement. Incomplete applications will automatically be denied.

Southwest Georgetown Youth Organization Inc. 

(updated 12/2021)

PROCEDURE

Scholarship requests must be submitted to SGYO 1 month prior to the start of a sport’s season ( beginning of practice) in order to be considered.

A parent, guardian, or head of household must complete the application, with all requested information provided. All items on the Scholarship Terms and Conditions must be initialed and the form must be signed and dated.

Incomplete or late applications will be denied.

As indicated above, all of the following must be included to be considered for scholarship:

• Income documentation (i.e. paperwork)

• State or Federal assistance documentation

• Letter from school, social worker, youth community center worker, or other social services

representative

• Letter of hardship

The SGYO Scholarship Committee will consider all scholarship applications completed with all necessary documentation and received by the deadline.

The amount of the scholarship awarded (if any) may be a partial or full scholarship depending on the number of applicants, and amount of scholarship funds available.

The parent, guardian or head of household will be notified in either case of a scholarship being awarded or not.

Approval of a registration scholarship does not register the participant in the activity. Athlete must still register online or in person for the SGYO sport for which the scholarship was awarded

Southwest Georgetown Youth Organization Inc. 

(updated 12/2021)