Replenishment Grants Dev 2

What are Replenishment Grants?

“We all drink from wells we have not dug and are warmed by fires we have not kindled.”

-Robert L. Simpson, quoting from a KSL editorial

President Rex E. Lee introduced the BYU Alumni Replenishment Grant for the first time during his devotional on September 15, 1992: Some Thoughts about Butterflies, Replenishment, Environmentalism, and Ownership. He said the BYU Alumni Association had worked to create a scholarship program that honors “the mainstays of our doctrine and of our historical tradition [that] ties back to helping others who come after us, just as we have been helped by those who have gone before.” Honoring our pioneer heritage, the BYU Alumni Association created a scholarship program that echoes the Perpetual Education Fund.

President Lee said that all members of the BYU community have an ownership of BYU, and that this ownership will last for their lifetime. We want replenishment grant students to feel this same ownership. Students who receive a replenishment grant should feel included by BYU Alumni community. The replenishment grant welcomes them into this community. We want replenishment grant recipients to have a sense of belonging which propels them to the help the students that come after them. With the gift of a replenishment grant, BYU students have an obligation to the giver and the students who follow them. An acknowledgement of the gift and the service rendered with an understanding that this gift will provide a future where you can continue the cycle of giving.

How They Work

• The BYU Alumni Association directs replenishment grants to needful junior and senior students whose total costs of education may not be met through other financial aid programs. These may be students who are working to put themselves through school and, by so doing, disqualify themselves for grants or loans.
  
• Grants will be awarded annually and vary in amounts up to full tuition. Grant recipients may be invited to participate in alumni activities. They will also be invited to replenish the grant fund once they are financially able.
  
• Serious candidates must meet the following qualifications to be considered:
  
  • Earn a minimum 3.0 GPA from all institutions attended by the end of Winter Semester
  • Demonstrate financial need 
• Recipients will be eligible to apply each year for another grant under the same criteria.
  
• Application
  
  • Explain your educational and professional goals
  • Explain your involvement in extra-curricular and service-related activities
  • Describe your financial need and the resources available to you to meet the expenses of your education. (Include employment, savings and/or spousal support, grants, scholarships, etc. Also indicate any extenuating circumstances which impact your financial situation.)
  • Express your feelings about the concept of replenishment

For Students Interested in Applying

**Deadlines to apply for grants: December 15th for new and transfer students, February 1st for continuing students.

For online application:

1. Click here or login to myBYU. Under "School" click on "Scholarship Application"
2. Select the semesters you will be attending next year.
3. Complete the Personal Information, Essays and the Financial Need sections.
4. Indicate that you want to be considered for an Alumni Replenishment Grant, choose the chapter you belong to, complete the alumni essays, and submit the application.

Replenishment grants for the entire year are awarded during the Spring for the upcoming school year. If you don't see the option to select an Alumni Replenishment Grant, it's probably because the deadline has passed. Please try again at the beginning of next year for the next Fall Semester!

How To Replenish

The term “replenishment” focuses on the ultimate goal of this program, to encourage you to look for others whom you can help along the way, and hope that, when the time is right and you are in a position to contribute, you will replenish and “pay it forward” to assist others as they complete their journey here at BYU.

• When you click the link below, search for the chapter that gave you the grant or the chapter where you currently reside.
• For those who want to make a donation to the Alumni General Grant, select "Grant Replenishment Past Recipient Gifts"