Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholars Program

Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholars Program is sponsored by Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation. The Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholars Program provides scholarship support to deserving Southern, Christian, female students with financial need and an interest in the health professions.

FAQ | Explore Funding FAQs — Apply Today — Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation How do I apply for a grant? Individuals: We do not make grants directly to individuals. Scholarships are awarded by participating educational and senior care institutions.

If you are seeking a scholarship or senior care assistance, please contact your institution for information about Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation support. Institutions not currently receiving Foundation support: We rarely add new institutions to our grants programs. For more information, contact Carrie Conway or Emily Patteson .

Institutions currently receiving Foundation support: Please review the information for Current Grantees . Who is eligible to receive Lettie Pate Whitehead funds? Our founder, Conkey Pate Whitehead, required that Foundation funds be awarded only to female Christian women who demonstrate financial need and live in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia.

We recommend that institutions review the conditions upon which our grants are made to ensure funds are awarded properly. Conditions statements are available here for educational institutions and here for senior care institutions. How does the Foundation make grant decisions?

Grant decisions are made by our Board of Trustees and grant award letters are mailed in mid-February. For educational institutions, we consider your SACSCOC accreditation status, the strength of your leadership, enrollment and financial health, academic program quality, commitment to serving students with financial need, and student success factors.

We consider the context in which each institution operates and prioritize schools that successfully serve students with significant financial need. For senior care institutions, we consider your quality of care, commitment to serving seniors with financial need, fiscal health, and the strength of your leadership.

Our investments are guided by an interest in supporting institutions that provide high-quality, compassionate care to individuals regardless of their financial means. For all institutions, the Foundation values transparency and good stewardship. Institutions that fail to meet our eligibility and reporting requirements may see their funding decrease or may not receive further support.

What is the Foundation’s relationship to the Robert W. Woodruff, Joseph B. Whitehead and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations?

The Lettie Pate Whitehead, Joseph B. Whitehead and Lettie Pate Evans Foundations were founded by members of the Whitehead family. These Foundations share an office and a staff with the Robert W.

Woodruff Foundation, though each is led by an independent Board of Trustees. Robert W. Woodruff was a good friend and trusted advisor to Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans, and their Foundations agreed on a common administrative arrangement to allow for greater flexibility and efficiency in responding to community needs.

Can I apply to the other Foundations for funding? Grants from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation are limited to Georgia’s research universities.

Independent colleges in Georgia and schools in Virginia that Mrs. Evans supported during her life may be eligible for a grant from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation . Please review each foundation’s grant guidelines to determine if your request is a fit for funding. What are the Foundation’s reporting requirements?

Reporting requirements are specified in your grant award letter and listed on our Current Grantees page. All requirements must be submitted online using our grant portal. Please do not email or send hard copies unless otherwise instructed.

How do you use the information contained in reports? All information is kept confidential. We use the information internally to ensure compliance with eligibility requirements, inform future funding decisions, and evaluate the effectiveness of our grants programs.

Who should manage my institution’s account in the Foundation’s grant portal? Please designate a single point of contact to manage your institution’s account and oversee all submissions to the Foundation. This contact does not need to be the person who signs letters.

Institutions often designate a development or financial aid officer to manage their grant portal account. Please note you may share login information with other staff so different departments can complete different requirements. I am a new primary contact for my institution.

What should I do? Notify Emily Patteson to transfer your institution’s grant portal account to your email address. This is not a change you can make on your own.

What is the username for my institution’s grant portal account? If you do not know your institution’s primary contact or the correct username, you may email Emily Patteson for help. I don’t remember the password for my grant portal account.

How do I reset it? On the grant portal login page , click “Forgot Password? ” below the Password field.

You will receive a temporary password from mail@grantapplication. com (be sure to add to your safe senders list). The temporary password will expire 48 hours after you click “Forgot Password?

” If more than 48 hours have passed, click “Forgot Password? ” again. Why don’t I see any requirements in the grant portal?

Check to make sure you are the primary contact for your institution. Only the primary contact will be able to see and submit requirements. Once you have logged in with the credentials of the primary contact, click the “Requirements” tab to see grant acceptance letters, scholarship reports, statistical reports or senior care reports assigned to your institution.

Typically, these requirements will be available in the grant portal in June of each year. New grant request letters do not appear automatically in the portal. You must click this link to access this requirement.

If you open or start a requirement and exit without submitting, you must return to the grant portal, click the “Requirements” tab and go to the dropdown menu on the right side of the screen to change the view to “In Progress Requirements. ” What should I do if I accidentally submit an incorrect or incomplete report? Notify Emily Patteson to republish your report to the grant portal for resubmission.

You will be unable to resubmit on your own.