Purpose:

To provide financial education assistance to law enforcement officers, telecommunicators, their survivors, and immediate family members who have demonstrated financial need.

General Information:

The Kentucky Memorial Foundation will be granting up to twenty-five scholarships this year.  The award is limited to a maximum of $1,000 per year, except if the award recipient is a family member of an officer who was killed in the line of duty, in which case the amount will be $2,000.  These scholarships will be restricted to law enforcement officers and law enforcement telecommunication personnel (current, retired, or disabled) and their survivors and dependents.  The scholarships may be used at any accredited college or university, including two-year and community colleges.  It may also be used for a recognized or certified vocational or trade school.

Eligible persons may submit scholarship applications for pre-approval prior to admissions if this source of funding will be the only available external funding for them to enroll in the college, university, vocational, or trade school.  Awards for the pre-approved applications will only be awarded after verification of acceptance into the program.

Eligibility and Priority for Scholarships:

-Survivors (dependent family members of deceased officers or telecommunicators including surviving spouses) will be given the highest priority for funding.

-Must be (1) a current, retired or disabled Kentucky sworn police officer or telecommunicator or (2) a survivor or dependent of the same.

-Must be accepted into an accredited college or university or a recognized vocational or trade school before the scholarship funds are awarded.

-Grants awarded will be prioritized on financial need and may be used for tuition, books, fees, housing, meals or transportation to the school facility.

-Full-time law enforcement officers or law enforcement telecommunicators who attend school on a part-time basis (and whose department does not provide tuition assistance) shall be eligible for actual cost of tuition, fees, and book reimbursement up to the maximum grant amount.

Students do not have to be majoring in law enforcement or criminal justice to be eligible for scholarships.

Process:

Scholarship eligibility and award amounts will be determined from an examination of all applications submitted.  Scholarships will be awarded on a one-year basis and will not be automatically renewable.  Eligible recipients may re-submit new applications each year for consideration.

The Scholarship Committee of the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation will be soley responsible and has broad discretion for determining eligibility, grant award amounts and disbursement of funds.  The decisions of the Scholarship Committee are final.

The Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital status, veteran status and/or any other legally protected status.

The deadline to submit an application is June 30, 2010.

All applications should be completed and returned to:

Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
Funderburk Building, 521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, Kentucky 40475-3102

For additional information, call 859-622-8081.