bonner program financial aid and recruitment

Financial Aid &Recruitment

Who and How to Recruit Your Bonners

What We’ll Cover

•Bonner Scholar vs Leader Financial Aid

•Bonner AmeriCorps

•Who to Recruit

•How to Recruit

•Replacing a Bonner

Bonner LeaderFinancial Aid

Four year commitment

Work/Service Stipend Expected - like FWS

Some schools include service scholarship

No summer stipend funding required

Bonner AmeriCorps

All Bonners eligible to enroll in AmeriCorps Education Award Program

300 hour/1 yr - $1,175

450 hour/1 yr - $1,468

900 hour/2 yr - $2,775

Bonner ScholarFinancial Aid

Four year commitment

Meets total cost of education

Loans capped at Stafford level

Bonner service =is “paid work”

Summer stipends for living and earnings

Who to Recruit

Bonner Scholar Bonner Leaderrequired size per class (different per school)

>= 5 size per class with minimum of 20 total

85% < $10,000 &average < $6,000

> 65% Federal Work Study eligible

> 60/40 gender balance > 60/40 gender balance

> diversity of school > diversity of school

How to RecruitFour year commitment

Build into school recruitment &and admissions process as yield tool - liaison

Engage current Bonners in process

Application process

On-campus interviews if possible

Example:::s-Rhodes, Lindsey Wilson

Replacing a BonnerShould have application process

Draw from pool of students already active in service

Do not need to involve students (but can

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