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CTF proudly supports the next generation of transportation leaders by providing scholarships to college students, and in some cases high school seniors, pursuing transportation careers. 

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New $5,000 Scholarship for California University Junior and Senior Undergraduate Students Studying Transportation

 

 The California Transportation Foundation is pleased to announce a new, annual $5,000 scholarship available to junior and senior undergraduate students attending four-year California universities, majoring in transportation-related fields who attend the yearly CTF Transportation Education Symposium.   Only the thirty-five students who are accepted to and attend the CTF Transportation Education Symposium will receive scholarship applications in November.  The $5,000 award will be presented in Sacramento in March at the CTF Transportation Forum.  Students will be eligible even if they graduate between the Symposium in November and presentation of the award in March.  Transportation-related majors include, but are not limited to, transportation planning, urban planning, civil engineering, and bridge engineering.

 

The program begins in 2007, with the Transportation Education Symposium, November 15-16.  Students must be nominated to attend the Transportation Education Symposium by a professor of a transportation-related class.  Information about the Symposium will be distributed to professors in August.  For more information about the Symposium please click here.

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Additional Scholarship Programs

 

 CTF’s commitment to our other scholarship programs continues.  In 2006, together with sponsoring partners, CTF awarded 54 scholarship grants, totaling $41,800, more than in any prior year.  CTF contributed $7,450 of the total.  All scholarships support students pursuing a transportation career.

 

CTF limits scholarship eligibility to California residents majoring in transportation-related fields, and the various scholarships may have additional restrictions, for example one is limited to students studying planning, another to engineering majors, etc.  For more information about applying for a scholarship contact Heinz Heckeroth at (916) 453-1767 or at hhheckeroth@sbcglobal.net.

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Establishing a Scholarship

 

 Setting up a scholarship fund correctly requires legal filings with the IRS, audits, and time spent analyzing financial records.  CTF streamlines the process by serving as the fiscal agent for people wishing to establish a transportation scholarship fund.  Donations large and small, earmarked for specific scholarship funds, trickle into CTF throughout the year. 

 

 Organizations such as Caltrans Districts have created scholarship committees to select worthy students and direct CTF to write grants using their program funds.  The first year an organization comes to CTF to set up a scholarship, the Foundation directly contributes fifty percent of the money being awarded.  The next year and thereafter, CTF’s donation is twenty-five percent.  Some scholarship sponsors convert their scholarships to one that is perpetually endowed.

 

 If you are interested in establishing a scholarship contact Heinz Heckeroth at (916) 453-1767 to learn how CTF can help.
    
Updated: July 8, 2007  

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