Update: Economic Empowerment Initiative, Inc. is our fiscal agent for the organization. We collaborated with them on a project named the Achieve Your Dreams Tour hosted at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta. Our main project was hosting the Financial Literacy Jeopardy Game. Students were engaged to answer questions in teams focused on financial sustainability. Scholarship KIDS played a major role in the Student Loans & Financial Aid portion of the game.

Additional hours volunteered: 50
Additional people involved: 100

Update: Some of our great sponsors! H&R Block really did it big for Scholar Week! They facilitated the filling out your FAFSA session at the information booth during the day. Students could walk by and grab a doughnut courtesy of Krispy Kreme and gain pertinent info on how to file taxes and FAFSA accurately.

Ashley B Blackmon
Number of people in the organization: 10
Number of people impacted: 250
Describe the impact the grant had: Winnig the DoSomething grant allowed for Scholarship K.I.D.S. to be lifted off of the ground unlike most campus organizations that have to start from scratch.
Project highlights: - EEI, Inc. fiscal agent confirmation - Scholar Week 2009 featuring H&R Block - 2009 Scholarship K.I.D.S. Award Competition
How did the project unfold and develop? Establishing Scholarship K.I.D.S. was a unique experience over the academic year of 2008 - 2009. We began hosting weekly seminars that evolved to stronger, more effective monthly events, seminars, panel discussions, raffles, trivia, etc. Our tactic was to identify meaningful opportunities on campus for students to be educated about financial aid literacy. We were sure to bring awareness to those actually interested in resolving their concerns about financial aid but we hope to spread to more of those who have no clue. Our first large event was when we hosted "How the ECONOMY and the recent ELECTION will affect YOUR financial aid". We had several panelists present including financial advisors from NY Life, Economic professors, parents, and of course students. We impacted our campus with more than 250 total students joining our movement. Out of those 250 students we granted the FIRST EVER 2009 Scholarship K.I.D.S. Award to Ms. Bronica Banks. She first learned about our project from the 2009 Scholar Week hosted in February. We chose February because of our dedication to educating those most in need during FAFSA filing month. At this time we spent an entire week working with our sponsors such as Economic Empowerment Initiative, Inc., H&R Block, and the CAU Financial Aid Office to spread knowledge about accurate financial aid application. Also during the month of February, we supported our demographic by hosting once a week Black History Month: African-American Scholars Trivia in the cafeteria. In the month of March we launched our series competition for the 2009 Scholarship K.I.D.S. Award. We truly believe that we touched several students who were inspired to better their financial