2020 SCHOLARSHIPS
Deadline:
11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sponsor:
Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC), the D.C. metropolitan area’s organ recovery agency, and its Donor Family and Community Advisory Council sponsor this scholarship. WRTC is dedicated to educating people from all walks of life in our community about the benefits of organ and tissue donation.
Rules:
Participants must follow ALL competition rules.
2020 Scholarship Rules (PDF File)
Essay Entry Form(PDF File)
Video Entry Form(PDF File)
Winners will be announced:
Winners ONLY will be notified on or about May 20, 2020, and announced on BeADonor.org
Previous Essay Scholarship Winners:
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
Previous Video Scholarship Winners:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. 2019
Resources:
- United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS): http://www.unos.org/
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/
- Donate Life America: http://donatelife.net/
- Association of Organ Procurement Organizations: http://www.aopo.org/
- National Organ and Tissue Donor Initiative: http://www.organdonor.gov/
- Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program: http://www.nationalmottep.org/
- The American Association of Tissue Banks: http://www.aatb.org/
- Eye Bank Association of America: http://www.restoresight.org/
PRIVACY POLICY
Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC) does not collect personal information from website (www.beadonor.org) visitors. Numerical data (e.g. numbers of visitors to the site or a particular page) are collected for statistical purposes only. Students who submit essays will not be enrolled to receive extraneous emails and/or solicitations of any sort. Only scholarship winners will be contacted by the staff of WRTC. Scholarship recipients should note that their name, home town, high school, college/institution the student plans to attend, prize amount and winning essay will be listed on WRTC’s website and may also be used in other promotional materials (e.g., in WRTC newsletters, press materials and on WRTC’s Facebook page,www.facebook.com/beadonor). Any photos submitted by the students or taken during the official in-person presentation of the scholarship may also be included in WRTC promotional materials.