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- "My Favorite Book" Review Contest
- Kindergarten through sixth-grade students from the USC Family of Schools are invited to submit reviews of their favorite books. This is facilitated by USC students who are in the USC ReadersPlus program through the Joint Educational Project. Reviews are generally submitted for consideration the last Friday of November. Awards are presented to the top reviews and appear in an issue of the University Park Family newspaper.
Contact: Tina Koneazny, 213-740-1834
Email: koneazny@usc.edu
Katharine A. D?az, 213-740-5262 kdiaz@usc.edu
- Anti-Graffiti Poster Contest
- This annual student art contest is organized during the fall to promote graffiti-free schools and neighborhoods and to support a crime resistant community. Sponsored by the USC Family of Schools' Safety Task Force, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and USC Civic and Community Relations.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-5262
Email: ccr@usc.edu
- Black Alumni Association
- For over 25 years, the Black Alumni Association at the University of Southern California has successfully reached out to African American students to provide financial aid and mentoring support. Founded by the late Dr. Rev. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., in 1976, the USC BAA (originally named USC Ebonics Support Group) is a unique alumni support organization with a primary goal to provide services to USC African American alumni.
Contact: Lura Ball, 213-740-8342
Email: obap@alumnicenter.usc.edu
- Bogart/USC Family of Five Teacher Awards
- This annual award recognizes teachers from the schools that made up the original USC Family of Five Schools. Endowed by Mr. and Mrs, Nelson T. Bogart, the awards recognize outstanding teachers whose efforts go above and beyond the call of duty. Awards are presented in conjunction with the ECCLA/USC Teacher Recognition Awards.
Contact: Katharine A. D?az, 213-743-5262
Email: kdiaz@usc.edu
- Century/Learning Initiatives For Today
- Students in grades K-12 receive homework assistance and up to 12 hours per week of reading comprehension and mathematics tutoring, technology enrichment and field trip opportunities. Students are grouped by grade level and work with the same tutor daily. Individual tutoring is available. Tutors are teachers, college students and high-achieving high school students. College/financial aid advisement and vocational education referrals are available. Parents, guardians and advocates also volunteer in the program. Free to participating students. Created in partnership with USC, Foshay Learning Center, DanBerg Development, Inc., and Century Housing Corporation.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Sherry Barton, 310-412-2286 ext.13
Email: sbarton@centuryhousing.org
- ECCLA Senior Scholarship and ECCLA/CA Retired Teachers Association Scholarships
- Higher education scholarships are awarded to seniors enrolled in ECCLA targeted schools. Two of the $1,000.00 scholarships are awarded through the generosity of the Education Consortium of Central Los Angeles and the other $1,000.00 scholarship is awarded through the generosity of the California Retired Teachers Association. The three students will receive the cash awards in the fall, upon presentation of proof of enrollment in an accredited U.S. college or university.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-4516
Email: phentsch@usc.edu
- ECCLA/USC Black History Month Essay Contest
- To commemorate Black History Month in February, the Education Consortium of Central Los Angeles, with the support of USC Civic and Community Relations, sponsors an essay contest on the theme "The African American I Know Whom I Most Admire."
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-4516
Email: phentsch@usc.edu
- ECCLA/USC Higher Education Scholarships
- Higher education scholarships are awarded to two eighth-grade students enrolled in ECCLA target schools. The purpose of these awards is to encourage students to plan for the future, excel academically and eventually enroll in an institution of higher education. The two students receive their awards upon presentation of proof of enrollment in a U.S. accredited college, university or trade/professional school. Scholarships provided by USC Civic and Community Relations.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-4516
Email: phentsch@usc.edu
- ECCLA/USC Hispanic Heritage Month Essay Contest
- To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month in September, the Education Consortium of Central Los Angeles, with the support of USC Civic and Community Relations, sponsors an essay contest in the fall on the theme "The Hispanic/Latino Individual I Know Whom I Most Admire."
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-4516
Email: phentsch@usc.edu
- ECCLA/USC Teacher Recognition Awards
- These annual awards recognize outstanding teachers whose efforts go above and beyond the call of duty and benefit students enrolled in ECCLA target schools located in Central Los Angeles. Awards provided by USC Civic and Community Relations.
Contact: Peggy Hentschke, 213-743-4516
Email: phentsch@usc.edu
- Exploration of Architecture
- This one-, two- or three-week summer residential program on campus offers a variety of activities related to the study and practice of architecture. About 100 high school students from across the country take part. Ten of these are inner-city youths sponsored through scholarship funds. USC faculty and students act as studio advisors as participants complete design projects and tour places of architectural interest and significance in Los Angeles.
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Jennifer Park, 800-281-8616
Email: jenpark@usc.edu
- Good Neighbor Volunteer Awards
- The annual awards recognize individuals who are making a difference as volunteers in the neighborhoods closest to the USC University Park and Health Sciences campuses. The categories are: community resident volunteer, non-resident volunteer, USC staff volunteer, USC faculty volunteer and USC alumni volunteer. Nominations are due around the first week of March.
Contact: Janice Hsia, 213-743-5266
Email: jhsia@usc.edu
- Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Education Partnership
- The Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Education Partnership seeks to address secondhand smoke by working on voluntary policies and compliance in the Hispanic community, provide technical assistance and training, support the Statewide Hispanic Media Campaign to counter tobacco use, and to promote the California Smokers Helpline.
Contact: Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, 626-457-6606
Email: baezcond@usc.edu
- Leo Buscaglia Scholarships for Inner City Teacher Education
- This is an endowed scholarship for five new students per year from one of five local high schools: Crenshaw, Fremont, Jefferson, Manual Arts or Roosevelt. Upon completion of a degree at USC, the student will return to teach at one of these high schools or at one of their feeder middle or elementary schools.
Contact: Lisa Galvan, 213-821-2671
Email: lgalvan@usc.edu
- Loan Repayment Assistance Program
- Graduates of USC Law School who are employed by nonprofit public service agencies and government law offices and are earning below a certain salary are given financial assistance in order to repay student loan debts. The program cannot receive direct requests for services.
Contact: Mary Bingham, 213-740-2523
Email: mbingham@law.usc.edu
- Mexican American Alumni Association Scholarships
- MAAA provides tuition assistance scholarships to Hispanic undergraduate and graduate (master's candidates only) students at USC. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents to apply. Grants are also awarded to students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and students at USC Law School. Applications are available in January of each year and are due May 31. To request an application, send a self-addressed stamped envelope or visit the MAAA Web site and click on the scholarship section to download the application and instructions.
Contact: Raul Vargas, 213-740-4735
Email: maaa@usc.edu
- Neighborhood Academic Initiative
- NAI delivers educational services, social referrals, and leadership development to low-income minority students and families residing in communities contiguous to USC. The USC NAI provides a comprehensive educational program to help students acquire academic and social skills needed to flourish in a college or university. Students fulfilling all requirements according to academy standards and meeting USC undergraduate entrance requirements will be afforded a no-loan financial aid package to complete a USC undergraduate degree. NAI's Saturday Academy is funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Contact: Kim Thomas-Barrios, 213-740-6313
Email: thomasba@usc.edu
- Norman Topping Student Aid Fund
- Student supported and primarily student run, this is a scholarship program for students with high financial need. In addition to scholarships, the program provides such diverse support services as advisement and study skills training to help participants succeed at USC. Scholars are required to perform at least 20 hours of community service per semester.
Contact: Desiree A. Campos, 213-740-7575
Email: ntsaf@usc.edu
- Public Interest Law Foundation
- This student-run organization raises funds to provide summer grants to 20-25 USC law students to perform full-time, public interest work during the summer and one full-time, graduate, public interest fellowship.
Contact: Melissa Balaban, 213-740-7397
Email: mbalaban@law.usc.edu
- QuikScience
- The purpose of QuikScience is to improve K-12 science education by using children's love of the ocean to make science more approachable, relevant and fun through an exploration-based curriculum. The partnership supports a number of activities designed to enhance and improve science and environmental education, including the QuikScience Challenge, a competition designed to expand the use of ocean-related curriculum in science classes, and the QuikScience Ocean Leadership Awards, which recognizes K-12 teachers who excel in the adoption of new techniques for teaching science. The QuikScience partnership is a collaboration between USC, the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Quiksilver and the Quiksilver Foundation.
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.; 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Judy Lemus, 213-740-1965
Email: jdlemus@usc.edu
- Retired Faculty Association, Caldwell Scholarship Committee
- The association awards a $3,000 Russell Caldwell Neighborhood Scholarship per year for four years to a recipient from each of nine senior high schools near USC.
Ages Served: 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: RFA President , 213-740-8169
- Summer and Special Programs
- A variety of programs are offered including a science camp for middle school girls, summer program middle school boys, science camp for high school women, Exploration of Architecture program, and summer seminars in a variety of subjects for college credit. Need-based scholarships available.
Contact: Lynn Goodnight, 213-740-5679
Email: summer@usc.edu
- Swim With Mike
- Swim With Mike is an annual fundraiser to raise money for scholarships for students who have overcome life-challenging accidents or illnesses. Since its inception in 1981, Swim With Mike has raised more than $5 million for 46 full scholarships, including providing financial assistance towards housing and books.
Ages Served: 18-35
Contact: Ron Orr, 213-740-4161
Email: rorr@usc.edu
- USC Neighborhood Outreach
- As part of USC's committment to improving the education, safety, economy, housing and health of residents living near the University Park and Health Sciences campuses, USC Neighborhood Outreach (UNO) is a nonprofit corporation that was created in 1993. It provides financial support to new and existing partnerships between USC faculty and staff and community-based organizations that have a visible, positive impact. USC Neighborhood Outreach grants fund a variety of programs. ||The USC Good Neighbors Campaign is an annual fundraising drive through which employees of the university make charitable contributions to fund USC Neighborhood Outreach as well as United Way and other non-profit organizations. Following the USC Good Neighbors Campaign in the winter of each year, USC Neighborhood Outreach requests grant proposals from university employees or units in partnership with community-based organizations or agencies. Proposals must meet one or more objectives of USC Neighborhood Outreach: improving the quality of life and education for children attending neighborhood schools and their families; improving public safety; boosting neighborhood economic development; and fostering opportunities for home ownership by low-income USC employees. Proposals are submitted by USC partners while funds are disbursed to community partners. The university contributes all administrative overhead.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Susan P. Lynch, 213-740-7400
Email: splynch@usc.edu
- USC Student Senate Philanthropy Fund
- The USC Student Senate Philanthropy Fund allocates $90,000 for USC student groups implementing community-service projects within the local community. The fund is supported by the USC student programming fee.
Contact: Philanthropy Fund Director , 213-740-5620
Email: philfund@usc.edu
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