Overview of the Bonner Scholar Program model for recruitment, selection, financial aid, and other funding resources.

1. Overview of Recruitment, Selection & Funding Process
Bonner Scholar Funding Guidelines

2. What We’ll Cover
• Recruitment & Selection
• Financial Aid Package
• Summer Service Funding
• Loan Reduction
• Other Program Funding
• Requesting Funds

3. Recruitment
& Selection

4. How to Promote

5. How to Recruit
• 4-year commitment
• Build into school recruitment &
admissions process as yield tool
• Engage current Bonners in
recruitment & interview process
• Application essay questions
• On-campus interviews if possible

6. Who to Recruit
Estimated Family
Contribution
• 85% < $10,000 with
average < $6,000
• 15% any EFC
Gender Balance: < 60/40
Diversity: > school %

7. Replacing a
Bonner Scholar
• EFC < $12,000
• Should have an
application process
• Draw from pool of
students already active
in service

8. Recruit &
Selection
Steps
• Update website & other recruitment
material
• Send application packet to eligible
students
• Convene Selection Committee
• Conduct Interviews
• Make Selection & Make Invitations
• Notify those not selected with other
options for engagement

9. Bonner Scholarship
Funding

10. Bonner Scholarship Funds
Category 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year TOTAL AVG
School Year Support $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $12,000
Summer Service Fund $4,500 $4,500 $9,000
Rising Senior Fund $500 $500
First Year Service Trip $250 $250
Sophmore Year Exchange $50 $50
Local Summer Service $75 $75 $75 $75 $300
Bonner Congress Travel $25 $25 $25 $25 $100
Community Fund $100 $100 $100 $100 $400
Administrative Support $350 $350 $350 $350 $1,400
TOTAL $8,300 $8,100 $3,550 $4,050 $24,000 $6,000

11. Financial Aid Package

12. Bonner Scholar
Financial Package
• Four year commitment
• Meets total cost of education
• Loans capped at Stafford
level
• Bonner service =is “paid
work”
• Summer stipends for living
and earnings

13. Bonner Scholar Financial Aid Package
$0
$12,500
$25,000
$37,500
$50,000
Student 1 Student 2 Student 3
$34,500
$39,000
$42,500
$2,500
$2,500
$2,500
$5,000
$5,000
$5,000
$8,000
$3,500
School packages
Grants, Scholarships,
Federal Work Study
Bonner Scholarship
Student Loan(s)
Family Contribution

14. Summer Service
Funding

15. Summer Service Funding
• Two summers required
• 280 hours per summer
• Students
fi
nd summer
service placements
• Students propose budget
for living stipend
• May budget summer
living stipend for future
summer service expenses

16. Local Summer Service Funding
Fund Amount Process
Local Summer
Service
Pooled based on $75 x
number of enrolled
students
Proposal to Bonner
Foundation
•The maximum amount available for each campus each summer is determined by
the number of enrolled Bonner Scholars based on a calculation of $75 per student
per year. For example, a school with 60 Bonner Scholars would be eligible for an
additional $4,500 ($75 x 60) to help establish and support these summer service
opportunities.
•These funds may be used to provide additional summer living or summer earnings
to the participating students and/or to cover administrative costs associated with
running the summer program.
•The maximum supplemental amount that an individual student engaged in your
local summer service program can receive is $1,500.

17. Loan Reduction

18. Loan Reduction
• Grandfathered amounts for:
• Class of 2020 — $2,000
• Class of 2021 — $1,500
• Class of 2022 — $1,000
• Class of 2023 — $500
• Must be applied directly to
student loans upon graduation
(or other educational expenses)
• Student has option to have
withheld up to 7 years

19. Other Program Funding

20. First Year Service Trip
Fund Source Amount Process
1st Year
Service Trip
Per Student
Allocation
$250 per
freshmen +
two staff
Proposal to Fnd
at least 6 wks in
advance
•
All Bonner Scholars are required to participate once, during their
fi
rst (or in
compelling circumstances, second) year in the program, in a service trip to a
geographic region outside their campus community. These events can be
organized each year either during winter, spring, or summer breaks, although
the Foundation encourages schools to organize these trips for the
fi
rst week of
the summer.
•
First-Year Service Trip hours may count towards meeting the student’s school-
year service hour requirement.

21. Fund Source Amount Process
Sophomore
Exchange
Per Student
Allocation
$50 per
sophomore
Added to Admin
Fund in Fall
Allocation
Sophomore Exchange
•
Bonner Scholars Programs are expected to organize a a day/weekend
event that brings second year Bonner students as a class to participate in
service or training activities with at least one other Bonner Program.
•
The goal of this event is to to facilitate community building in the larger
Bonner network and provide the opportunity for training, service and
re
fl
ection. Ideally any break, weekend or after graduation could be a time
when the exchange takes place. Additionally, the SLI meeting’s service
events can also be considered for this exchange.

22. Fund Amount Process
Bonner
Congress Travel
Reimbursement
$250 per Congress Rep per
meeting (2 reps x 2
meetings x $250 = $1,000)
Reimbursement
request submitted to
Foundation via email
Bonner Congress Travel
•
Up to $250 per trip per Bonner Student Congress representative with a
maximum of $500 is available to cover travel expenses to Bonner
Congress meetings.
•
Please submit your reimbursement requests of up o $250 per Bonner
Congress representative and no more than $500 directly to the Bonner
Foundation, accompanied by the receipts. If a school currently has a
Bonner Endowment, the funds will be drawn directly from that
endowment.

23. Fund Source Amount Process
Special Projects
Fund
Unexpended
Bonner
Scholarship Funds
from Prior Year
Calculated by
Foundation
Proposal to Fnd at
least 6 wks in
advance
Special Projects Fund
•
Schools will be allowed to request additional funds for the following activities involving Bonner
Scholars in their junior and senior years:
◦
service trips (not including the 1st year service trip), with an emphasis on international
perspective;
◦
internships and activities involving speci
fi
c national Bonner Partners organizations (see
attached list);
◦
initiatives that involve Bonner Scholars in connecting service to an academic course;
◦
joint service projects with junior or senior Bonner Scholars and Bonner Leaders from other
schools (excluding sophomore service exchanges);
◦
participation in service and leadership initiatives organized through the Bonner Congress or
for Senior Interns (not including the regularly scheduled meetings for these students).
•
The goal of these initiatives should be to speci
fi
cally enhance student learning and
development, not simply to implement current aspects of the Bonner Scholars Program.

24. Special Projects Fund Calculation
Prior Year Actuals vs Budget
Available in Next
Current Year

25. Foundation Approval
Process

26. Semester Reporting in BWBRS
Report Who
Fall Spring Summer
(complete the week after semester starts)
Registrar’s List
School
✓ Create Registrar’s List (week after semester starts)
✓ Submit Change of Status
Foundation ✓ Approve Change of Status
School
✓ Con
fi
rm List is Ready to be Locked
✓ Notify Foundation to Lock Registrar’s List
Foundation ✓ Lock Registrars List (automatically creates Allocation Report)
Allocation
Report
School ✓ Review & Edit Allocation Report
Foundation
✓ Approve & Lock Allocation Report
✓ Email Allocation Approval Letter
Reimbursement
Report
School
✓ Review & Edit Reimbursement Report
✓ Notify Foundation to Lock Reimbursement Report
Foundation
✓ Approve & Lock Reimbursement Report
✓ Email Reimbursement Approval Letter (if needed)

27. Semester Funding via BWBRS
Fund Amount Process
Semester
Allocations
Per Student Allocation
Semester Allocation Reports
in BWBRS
Semester
Reimbursements
Original Semester Allocation less
Actual Expenditures = Reimbursement
Semester Reimbursement
Reports in BWBRS

28. Semester Funding via BWBRS

29. New Freshmen Approval

30. Bonner Scholar
Endowment Access

31. Semester Registrars List

32. Funding through Proposals
Fund Amount Process
Rising Senior
Funds
Up to $500 per student
Student submits to you;
School submit to Foundation
Local Summer
Service
$75 per Bonner Scholar x maximum
Bonner Enrollment
Submit letter with budget
(including student names and placements)
First Year Trip
$350 per
fi
rst year Bonner Scholar x
(total on trip + two staff)
Submit letter with budget &
trip itinerary
Bonner Congress
Travel
$250 per student x two students per
meeting (Fall Congress & SLI)
Submit email request with
names of students
(receipts are not recess)

33. Bonner Scholar Endowment Access
Fund Amount Process
Annual
Endowment
Enrichment Fund
General Fund less Annual Budget
(based on full enrollment) =
Enrichment Fund
Foundation calculates
amount;
School submits Annual
Proposal for approval
Annual
Supplemental
Financial Aid
Supplemental Financial Aid Fund less
$ needed for General Fund = $ SFA
Included in Annual Proposal
to Foundation

34. Bonner Scholar Endowment Access Chart