Presented at the 2013 New Bonner Directors and Coordinators Orientation.

1. Financial Aid &
Recruitment
Who and How to
Recruit Your Bonners

2. What We’ll Cover
•Bonner Scholar vs Leader Financial Aid
•Bonner AmeriCorps
•Who to Recruit
•How to Recruit
•Replacing a Bonner

3. Bonner Leader
Financial Aid
Four year commitment
Work/Service Stipend
Expected - like FWS
Some schools include
service scholarship
No summer stipend
funding required

4. Bonner
AmeriCorps
All Bonners eligible to
enroll in AmeriCorps
Education Award Program
300 hour/1 yr - $1,175
450 hour/1 yr - $1,468
900 hour/2 yr - $2,775

5. Bonner Scholar
Financial Aid
Four year commitment
Meets total cost of education
Loans capped at Stafford
level
Bonner service =is “paid
work”
Summer stipends for living
and earnings

6. Who to Recruit
Bonner Scholar Bonner Leader
required size per class
(different per school)
>= 5 size per class with
minimum of 20 total
85% < $10,000 &
average < $6,000
> 65% Federal Work
Study eligible
> 60/40 gender balance > 60/40 gender balance
> diversity of school > diversity of school

7. How to Recruit
Four year commitment
Build into school recruitment
&and admissions process as
yield tool - liaison
Engage current Bonners in
process
Application process
On-campus interviews if
possible
Example:::s-Rhodes, Lindsey Wilson

8. Replacing a
Bonner
Should have application
process
Draw from pool of
students already active in
service
Do not need to involve
students (but can

9. How to Promote

10. How to Promote