Toronto Kiwanis

The Kiwanis Club of Toronto has a long tradition of making significant improvements to the life opportunities of Toronto’s young people through the Scholarship Committee of the Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation.

1) In recent years the Scholarship Committee has awarded tuition scholarships in amounts of up to $3,000 to Toronto-based students who will be attending full-time educational programs at Canadian accredited post-secondary educational institutions (college, university, apprenticeship) in the year of the award and who demonstrate need. The application deadline for the 2010 Scholarship Program is Monday, May 17, 2010. Download the application here

2) The Scholarship Committee funds scholarships in partnership with Toronto Area charitable groups. Guidelines and Procedures for 2010 Scholarship Partnership Proposals can be downloaded here: 2010 RFP Scholarship Partnerships.

The submission deadline for these 2010 Proposals is December 31, 2010.

The Merit Award Bursary Program

The Merit Award Bursary Program
was started in 1996 by a group of Toronto residents. They felt it is important to provide support and incentive to encourage high school students to stay in school and achieve to the best of their abilities. The late Mr Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada was the first Honourary Chair of the Program, which is administered entirely by volunteers.

The Merit Award bursaries are $500 each. The first bursaries were awarded to 20 high school students in the former City of York in the Fall of 1996. The Program was expanded to include the former Borough of East York in 1997. In the spring of 2007, the Merit Award Bursary Program awarded 89 bursaries to students at selected schools across Toronto.