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Hi there scholarship seekers. Hope you are all enjoying your winter break! The time between semesters is a great opportunity to start applications for scholarships that have spring deadlines. Today I have a few scholarships to share to help you get started.

The first scholarship I would like to tell you about is the Diverse Minds Youth Writing Challenge. This is an education awareness initiative offered by B’nai B’rith International as one of its programs that promote tolerance and communicate a message of equality among all citizens, regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender or sexual orientation. This scholarship competition asks high school students to write and illustrate a children’s book that discusses the topics of tolerance and diversity. The challenge encourages teens to create innovative ways to teach tolerance to young children, as well as gain new insights into these issues for themselves.

The second scholarship I have for you comes from the Phoenix Akarama Foundation. This foundation offers undergraduate scholarships to deserving female high school seniors and community college students each year. Scholarships are awarded based on academic achievement, campus involvement, community service and leadership.

The final scholarship program I have for you today is the Hawaii Community Foundation Scholarship Program. This program consists of over 150 scholarship funds established by generous individuals, families, businesses or organizations to assist Hawaii’s residents in obtaining a college education. Some if the funds are part of the Hawaii Community Foundation and some represent private foundations that have asked the Hawaii Community Foundation to administer their scholarships. Students apply to the program and, if eligible, can be awarded from one or more of these funds.

That is all for today. Don’t forget we have another round of our own scholarship drawings coming up on January 3rd! Login to ScholarshipPoints now and redeem the code SCHOLARSHIPSIN11 for 15 scholarship points.  Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hi there scholarship seekers. Has everyone heard the big news? The last $10,000 scholarship winner of 2010 has been announced. If you haven’t already checked, head over to the winner’s page now to see who the lucky member is!

If you were not a winner in 2010 you will have plenty of chances to win in 2011. This year we gave away over $115,000 and in 2011 we hope to give away even more! We will  have more sponsored scholarship drawings, monthly $1,000 Free College Scholarships, and the $10,000 scholarship drawing will return in March, June, September and December.

Stay tuned throughout the next few weeks for new opportunities, new prizes and even a few surprises. Big things are happening at ScholarshipPoints and this is shaping up to be the best year yet!

To get started on earning scholarship points for the new year, login now and redeem the code WINBIGIN11 for 15 scholarship points. Good luck!

The Deadline to enter the December $10,000 scholarship drawing is tomorrow! Don’t forget to get your scholarship points into the drawing by 11:59pm tomorrow night. The lucky winner will be posted on the winner’s page on Wednesday, December 15th!

If you want to earn some last minute scholarship points, here are a few things you may not have tried yet:

Join NPD Consumer Research Panel: As a member of ScholarshipPoints.com, when you complete your first NPD consumer survey, your account will automatically be credited with 100 scholarship points and you will be entered into next month’s $1,000 Scholarship Drawing.

Take the Online Education Survey: If you are interested in online learning, take this short survey and earn 100 scholarship points.

Join Internships.com: Internships.com has everything you need to find, apply for, and land your next internship. After you have registered for free, you will be entered into a $1,000 scholarship drawing and your ScholarshipPoints account will automatically be credited with 100 scholarship points.

And for a few more scholarship points login to scholarship points now and redeem the code DEC14THDEADLINE for 25 scholarship points good today and tomorrow only!

No one ever said that applying for scholarships was easy. College scholarship money is abundant, but that does not mean you do not have to work hard to get your share. Many scholarships require an essay be submitted with the application. With the holiday break right around the corner, it may a good time to start thinking about spending some of your time off searching for scholarships and  plowing through the essays that have been put off throughout the busy semester.

Time and effort are certainly required to write a successful scholarship essay.  But how do you know the finished product you are submitting puts your best foot forward? Here are quick tips that will lead you in the right direction and make sure you are using your writing time wisely and efficiently:

• Use an original topic: Think outside of the box when it comes to developing a topic. Unique essays will shine in a large pool of applicants.
• Use all of the writing skills you have learned in high school: It is important to treat every essay like a piece of writing you would turn in for English class. Use every writing tip you have learned from having a strong theme to proper sentence construction.
• Give a scholarship essay the same attention you would give a college admission essay: This essay will not determine whether or not you get into college, but it could certainly help you pay for your education.
• Proofread and spell-check your work: Spelling and grammar mistakes can lead a scholarship committee to immediately dismissing your essay as a contender.
• Have a parent or friend give it a second look: It never hurts to have another person take a look at something you have written. It is easy to miss small mistakes that someone else could have picked up on.

If you follow all of these steps you should have a piece of work you can be really proud of turning in. It may seem like a lot of work, but every scholarship you apply for will bring you one step close to paying for college with scholarships.

Thank you for becoming an NPD panelist. You have been automatically entered into the ScholarshipPoints $1,000 NPD Scholarship. However, the chances to win do not stop here! If you continue taking surveys with NPD, you will remain eligible to win the $1,000 NPD sponsored scholarship every month. When you take NPD surveys you will also accumulate SweepLand points and have the opportunity to win other great prizes from NPD on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. These prizes include up to $5,000 cash, an exciting vacation, a laptop, and a tablet computer.

The best part is that you never have to remember to go to the NPD site to take a survey. When they have a new survey opportunity for you they will send it right to your email. Add survey@npdor.com to your email address book and be on the lookout for emails from NPDOR so that these survey opportunities do not pass you by! You can also login to SweepLand, NPD’s reward program, at any time to check the status of your SweepLand points!

Today is December 1st. Do you know what that means? It mean that the November scholarship winners have been announced! The winners for the following scholarship drawings were posted on the winner’s page this morning:

• November 2010 $1,000 Free College Scholarship
• November 2010 $500 Refer a Friend Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 ZoomPanel Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 NPD Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 Harris Poll Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 MyView Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 PrivateStudentLoans.com Scholarship
• November 2010 $1,000 Internships.com Scholarship

Head on over to the winner’s page now to see if you are a lucky winner, but don’t delay because winners have three days to claim their scholarship before it is awarded to the runner-up! If you didn’t win any of these scholarship drawings, you have one more chance to win big in 2010! The December 15th $10,000 Scholarship Drawing is about two weeks away. Login now to start earning scholarship points and you could be the final $10,000 scholarship winner of 2010!