NSLS Scholarship Winners (2024)

Academic Excellence Scholarship

Higher education is one of the most valuable investments an individual can make. It requires commitment and discipline to persevere through the academic rigors of undergraduate or graduate studies. The NSLS recognizes inducted members who exemplify leadership accomplishments, as well as high academic standing.

Alumni Award

NSLS members continue to excel as leaders long after they've achieved induction and graduated from college. The NSLS Foundation encourages honor society alumni to nurture lifelong leadership skills, and the Alumni Award recognizes those who are living the values of the NSLS in their lives and careers beyond campus.

Dream Support Grant

The NSLS Foundation aims to empower and engage individuals as they embark on fulfilling their potential. We recognize that working toward a personal goal takes unlimited hard work, unyielding determination, and unbreakable courage that must defy all odds. The purpose of this grant is to support individuals in achieving their dream.

Financial Aid Materials Grant

The NSLS Foundation designates a certain amount of scholarship funds each year to support undergraduate or graduate students in need of financial assistance. The purpose of this grant is to support higher-education endeavors such as special projects and research, as well as to provide assistance for academic expenses.

Healthy Living Grant

The NSLS encourages our members to strive to be the healthiest versions of themselves. Whether that means managing stress and self-care, staying active through daily movement, or pursuing certification as a yoga instructor or personal trainer, the NSLS supports students' holistic well-being. The Healthy Living Grant provides financial assistance to aid individuals on their unique wellness journey.

Little Leaders Award

The NSLS Foundation recognizes the “Little Leaders” in the lives of our members who could benefit from support for a special interest, academic program, or activity. The Little Leaders Award helps a member's child, sibling, cousin, or family friend pursue a passion while growing into a future leader who makes a better world.

Living Leadership Scholarship

This scholarship is available exclusively to members who are continuing their leadership journey as a registered participant of our Executive Leadership Certification. Through the completion of this program, members shift from being the mentee to being the mentor and from practicing leadership to living it. The Executive Leadership Certification explores topics like inclusive leadership, unconventional solutions, and expanding perspective. Further, students are responsible for planning, organizing, and completing their own NSLS Better World Project as a program capstone.

New Member Scholarship

New members are joining the NSLS every day, and the NSLS Foundation recognizes that many of these members will make an impact on their chapters, communities, and their own lives almost immediately. The New Member Scholarship honors excellent students in their first semester as NSLS members.

Online Member Scholarship

The NSLS Foundation recognizes the vital importance of online education opportunities for today’s students, whether they're remotely pursuing a degree or simply taking classes to learn and better their futures. The Online Member Scholarship awards students who are enrolled in an online chapter of the NSLS.

Practicing Leadership Scholarship

This scholarship is available exclusively to NSLS members who are registered for the Advanced Leadership Certification. This program allows members to continue their leadership journey, shifting their focus self-growth to service of others as they motivate and empower those around them. The Advanced Leadership Certification explores topics like diversity of leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and leveraging personal strengths, while also outlining how to identify and secure a mentor. Further, students acquire the skills needed to navigate challenging situations that emerge across teams through experiential, in-the-moment problem solving.

United By Purpose: Building Equitable Leaders

The United by Purpose: Building Equitable Leaders Scholarship supports the NSLS’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity. Our organization aims to develop leaders who foster a sense of belonging for everyone, with careful attention to the ways race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and socioeconomic status can impact both who has a seat at the table and who feels welcome to be there. We support our entire community as we work alongside all who are adversely affected every day in large and small ways by forms of systemic injustice.

United By Purpose: A Challenge for Equality for All

This scholarship recognizes NSLS members who are using their voices to empower themselves and others to make the world more equitable. The NSLS United By Purpose: A Challenge for Equality for All Scholarship provides financial support to teams of NSLS members who are engaged in efforts to meaningfully create or promote more inclusive and just communities.