Overview of recruitment, selection, and funding for Bonner Scholars, shared at the 2018 New Bonner Directors and Coordinators Orientation.

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. Bonner Scholarship
Funding

9. Bonner Scholarship Funds
Category 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year TOTAL AVG
School Year Support $2,500 $2,500 $2,500 $2,500 $10,000 $2,500
Summer Living Stipend $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 $500
Summer Earnings Stipend $1,500 $1,500 $3,000 $750
Rising Senior Fund $500 $500 $125
Loan Reduction $2,000 $2,000 $500
First Year Service Trip $250 $250 $63
Sophmore Year Exchange $50 $50 $13
Local Summer Service $75 $75 $75 $75 $300 $75
Bonner Congress Travel $25 $25 $25 $25 $100 $25
Community Fund $100 $100 $100 $100 $400 $100
Administrative Support $350 $350 $350 $350 $1,400 $350
TOTAL $5,800 $5,600 $3,050 $5,550 $20,000 $5,000

10. Financial Aid Package

11. 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

12. 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

13. Summer Service
Funding

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

15. Bonner Summer Service Funding
Category 1st Summer 2nd Summer 3rd Summer
or 4th Year
Living Stipend $1,000 $1,000
Earnings Stipend $1,500 $1,500
Rising Senior
Fund $500
Total $2,500 $2,500 $500

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
• Qualify for $2,000
• Must complete all program
requirements
• 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 first (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 first 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
reflection. 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
Junior/Senior
Leadership Fund
Unexpended
Bonner Scholarship
Funds from Prior
Year
Calculated by
Foundation
Proposal to Fnd at
least 6 wks in
advance
Junior/Senior Leadership 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 specific 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 specifically enhance student learning and development, not
simply to implement current aspects of the Bonner Scholars Program.

24. Requesting Funds

25. 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
✓ Confirm 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)

26. Bonner Scholar Endowment Access
Fund Amount Process
Semester
Allocations
Per Student Allocation
Semester Allocation Reports
in BWBRS & Proposals to
Foundation
Semester
Reimbursements
Original Semester Allocation less
Actual Expenditures = Reimbursement
Semester Reimbursement
Reports in BWBRS
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