Apply for a Community Service Scholarship

The Alliant Energy Foundation is offering a new scholarship opportunity to recognize outstanding community leadership in young people and help students reach their academic goals. Up to 25 $1,000 scholarships are awarded to students annually through the new Alliant Energy Foundation Community Service Scholarship Program. Award selection is based on participation in a leadership role in community service activities and volunteer work; academic grade point average; standardized test scores; and the content of a 300-word essay submission.

Eligibility guidelines

To be eligible, scholarship applicants must have participated in a leadership role in community service work or volunteer activities. They must also meet the following criteria:

• Be age 24 or under;
• Be a dependent child of a current customer, or be a current customer, of one of Alliant Energy’s utility subsidiaries (Interstate Power and Light or Wisconsin Power and Light);
• Have a cumulative high school grade point average between 2.5 and 3.75 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent);
• Reside within the Alliant Energy service territory at the time of application; and
• Plan to enroll in, for the first time, beginning in the fall of 2008, a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or vocational-technical school located within Iowa, Wisconsin or Minnesota.

Restrictions

Employees of Alliant Energy Corporation, Scholarship America, their subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies and their immediate family (spouses, parents, children or siblings and their spouses) and persons living in the same household of such employees, who are employed at the time of application are ineligible to receive a scholarship.

Review criteria

A scholarship committee will carefully review each application in search of the most deserving recipients. Judges will consider several criteria, including:

• Leadership experience and community service or volunteer activities;
• Academic grade point average;
• Standardized test scores; and
• The content of a 300-word essay submission.

Rank-in-class will not be a determining factor. Scholarship awards are for one year only and are limited to undergraduate study. Applications will be accepted from December 1 to February 15.

Application

Download the Community Service Scholarship Program application [PDF]