Scholarship – Application Process
The DJCF/SWCF offers many different scholarships. The questions are designed to allow us to consider you for every scholarship for which you may be eligible. Therefore it is important that you answer all the questions. If you are unable to answer a question, put N/A.
Log into your application and it will show you what sections are completed and what, if any, still remain. You will receive verification after you click the submit button.
The essay is an important part of your scholarship application because it is the best way for the scholarship judges to get to know you. This is to help you identify the most important aspects that you would like the scholarship committee to know about you. Your scholarship essay should discuss yourself and your educational goals and should include personal information that you want to be considered by the scholarship selection committee when they evaluate your application. A strong essay will greatly improve your chances of receiving a scholarship. Good writing is helpful, but you can make up for some writing challenges by crafting a thorough essay and carefully revising it before you submit it. It is very important that you make sure your essay preserves your anonymity.
Be specific. If you want to “help people” someday, say how. What specific actions do you see yourself doing someday? If your family has had financial problems, provide some details. If you have participated in different volunteer or school organizations, write about what you specifically did in those organizations. Help the reader to see and feel your experiences and your goals.
Structure your essay. Start with a good introduction and end with a strong conclusion. Re-read, revise, and proof your essay. Also run a spell check and have somebody else review it before you submit it.
Please write thoughtfully. It is perfectly fine to talk about yourself and use pronouns like “I” and “my.” However, this is still an essay, so treat it like something you might submit in an English class. Do not begin the essay with “Hi, my name is . . . .” This is not an appropriate beginning for an essay. Please remember to exclude include your name or other identifying information.
Yes. Some scholarships require a high GPA, but many require only a 3.0 or better.
Notification is in mid-April of each year.
Our scholarships come from individuals or organizations who have established endowment funds (funds that continue forever) at our Foundations because they care deeply about helping students such as you go to college. The money does not come from the government.
You must complete a new application every year. All supporting documents must also be resent annually.
Contact us at [email protected] before January 17, 2024.
Please contact [email protected] and explain your difficulty.
Transcript Questions
Upload the transcript from your most recent semester completed.
An official school transcript is one that has the seal of the school or a signature of a school official. We can also accept it if it is mailed or emailed to us directly from a school official. If the transcript is not signed, it is not official and your application will not be included for final committee review.
If your school only mails official transcripts, upload your unofficial one as a placeholder to process your application, and have the official one sent to:
DJCF/SWCF
Scholarships
12700 Hillcrest Rd, Suite 201
Dallas, TX, 75230
Your official transcript must be received by January 17, 2024. It is your responsibility to ensure our office receives an official transcript by January 17 for your application to be reviewed.
My DJCF Portal
If you are an existing fund advisor at the DJCF you should have received an email on how to set up your password. Once you have set up your password, you can visit your portal by visiting the DJCF homepage, select ‘My DJCF’ tab, select login, and you will be directed to the login page.
If you have more than one fund there will be an option to select which fund you would like to access after logging in. If you have one fund with us, you will be taken directly to the landing page of that fund.
The home tab of the portal displays the current blance, list of advisors on the fund, and a list of recent contributions to the fund and grants made from the fund.
This tab will show all contributions made to your fund. The list can be sorted by clicking on any of the column names. By selecting on a contributor’s name you will bring up a history of all contributions made to the fund from that specific contributor.
This tab will show a history of grantees and grants made from the fund along with the purpose of the grant.
At the top of the page, you will see a summary of grants made to individual organizations.
At the bottom, is a list of each grant with date, description, and amount.
This is where you can copy a previous grant to create a new grant request
Fund advisors can make grant requests from the fund’s assets by clicking the grant request tab at the top of the page.
Grant requests are created on the left-hand side of the page.
On the right-hand side of this page, you will see a list of grants requested to be paid along with their current status.
Grant request still in the request stage can be canceled from this screen.
Grant requests are created on the left-hand side of the page under the ‘Recommend a Grant’ tab. You may begin a new grant request by using one of the following options:
- Choose a previous grantee from one of the dropdown menus (you can search for previous grantees, funds held at the DJCF, or search for grantees by typing keywords that allow GuideStar and information specializing in reporting on US nonprofit organizations to search for organizations containing those keywords).
- If you have not found the organization you want to give to you can enter it manually (you will need name, address, zip code, and phone number for that organization).
Once you have entered those details you can click submit at the bottom of the page.
Next you will type in a description to let the grant team know what the grant is to be used for.
You will add the amount and here is where you will click if wish for the grant to remain anonymous.
In the additional notes section, you can provide any additional notes you want our staff to see before processing your grant request.
You will review this request, then click submit! You will now see your request appear in the list of grants at the bottom of the page.