The Live Your Dream Awards are all about helping women who have faced obstacles on the path to living their dreams. Since 1972, the award has provided tens of thousands of women with cash grants to help them achieve their educational and career goals.
The Live Your Dream Awards offers three levels of cash awards. Ultimately, a Live Your Dream Award recipient has the potential to receive up to $16,000 to help offset tuition costs, purchase books, get transportation, or find reliable childcare so she can worry less about how to pay her bills and focus on achieving her education dreams.
Club-Level: Award amounts vary, but club-level recipients receive an average of $1,000 from a local Soroptimist club. Each club selects one first-place recipient to move on to the next level of judging.
Region-Level: Each club’s first-place recipient is eligible for a $3,000 or $5,000 region-level award. Each region selects one first-place recipient to move on to the next level of judging.
International-Level: Each region’s first-place recipient is eligible for one of three international-level awards of $10,000.
How to Apply
- Eligibility
- Application
- Terms
You are eligible to apply if you are a woman who:
- Provides the primary financial support for yourself and your dependents. Dependents can include children, spouse, partner, siblings and/or parents.
- Has financial need.
- Is enrolled in or has been accepted to a vocational/skills training or an undergraduate degree program.
- Is motivated to achieve your education and career goals.
- Resides in one of Soroptimist International of the Americas’ member countries/territories (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guam, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, United States of America, Venezuela).
- Has not previously been the recipient of a Soroptimist Women’s Opportunity or Live Your Dream Award.
- Does not have a graduate degree and is not pursuing one currently.
- Is not a Soroptimist member, an employee of Soroptimist International of the Americas or immediate family of either.
To apply, visit the Soroptimist website and create an account (this will allow you to save your application and return to it later).
You’ll be asked to provide 1-2 references and a personal statement of 750 words or less sharing how this scholarship could help you live your dream.
All applicants must agree to write their essay in their own words, without the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.