The Gina Guthrie Scholarship Fund is currently not accepting any applications. Our next award will be our Spring 2025 award for Cabarrus County, N.C. seniors - so check back in the spring to see if you qualify. We recently awarded our Fall 2024 award to Ashley Savigne, a Kappa Delta at the University of Florida. Her winning essay is currently on our "Recipients" page, and below are the requirements she had for the submission.

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To determine the recipient of the award, we held an essay contest that consisted of three parts. First, the applicant had to show financial need and explain how the scholarship would help them. The second part of the application was an essay on a place that the applicant would like to travel to and why. It could be about a dream trip, a place they’d like to take their family, someplace from their past they want to revisit, or somewhere they want to go to study and learn more about a different culture. The last part of the application was another essay on their favorite meal they ever ate and why. Travel and food were two of the things Gina was most passionate about and we decided to use them as the main criteria to select our winner this year. We were looking for creativity, originality, inspiration, and passion in the applicants' writing. There was no minimum or maximum on words, so they could write whatever they wanted to cover all three topics. We finished taking applications on October 14th, and on October 28th we awarded a $2,500 scholarship to Ashley Savigne from the Gina Guthrie Scholarship Fund.

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The Gina Guthrie Scholarship Fund was established to honor and remember Gina Guthrie by providing financial aid to help students achieve their dreams. Gina left us in 2019, but her memory lives on forever in the scholarship that bears her name. For more information about scholarship awards and to learn about Gina’s legacy, please visit us online at www.GinaGuthrieScholarshipFund.com.