Paying For Your Trip

Financing your ASB trip is an important component to plan for. In comparing trips, take care to note the cost of the program as well as the service and location. Below are many ways to help finance your trip.

  1. Alternative Spring Break Need-Based Scholarships
  2. Need-Based Alumni Scholarships
  3. Alternative Spring Break Reaserach Grants
  4. Fundraising
  5. External Scholarship and Grant Opportunities

  1. Alternative Spring Break Need Based Scholarships

    Alternative Spring Break is offering several need-based scholarships up to $500 toward the cost of participating in Alternative Spring Break, funded by the UVa Bookstore. Scholarship recipients will be notified before the first deposit for their trip is due. Read more about these and apply for them on our Scholarships page.

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  2. Need Based Alumni Scholarships

    Alumni from individual trips are offering need-based scholarships for participants that demonstrate a compelling interest in their trip location and service. Accepted scholars will be required to present a report to the alumni about the trip and their experiences. Read more about these on our Scholarships page.

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  3. Alternative Spring Break Research Grants

    Alternative Spring Break offers small grants for participants to do academic reserach in conjunction with their trip. There are two available types of grants: the Service-Learning Reasearch Grant and the Baireuther Service-Learning Award. Visit our Service-Learning Grants page to learn more and apply.

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  4. Fundraising

    We encourage all participants to fundraise individually through letter-writing to family and friends. For a sample fundraising letter please click here. ASB provides individual opportunities for fundraising at John Paul Jones Arena events or other sporting events. Contact our fundraising chairs Time Park (tsp7n @ virginia.edu) & Lauren Browne (lmb7j @ virginia.edu) for more information. Take the initiative and plan a fundraiser for your whole group! For another resource, visit WorldTeach, www.worldteach.org, which has more ideas for non-traditional fundraising.

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  5. External Scholarship and Grant Opportunities

    Community Based Research Grant
    Community Based Research Awards for Undergraduates will provide opportunities for students to develop research projects that apply their academic skills, experiences, and ideas to real world problems. The grants are not limited to a single academic field. Interdisciplinary work is encouraged. Student researchers, under the guidance of a faculty advisor and in collaboration with a community organization, will identify a project that addresses a documented public need or issue. *Student researchers will design a research project, adopt and deploy a research methodology embedded in an academic field(s), create a research product (paper, presentation, etc.) that benefits the community organization and meets expectations of academic rigor as agreed on by the faculty advisor and the student researcher(s).

    Harrison Undergraduate Research Award
    The Center for Undergraduate Excellence is home to the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. The program funds outstanding undergraduate research projects carried out in the summer or academic year. Forty awards of up to $3000 each will be granted on a competitive basis to current first, second, and third-year undergraduate students. Applicants must be full time undergraduates at UVa and must remain enrolled at the University through the completion of their project.

    Small Research and Travel Grants
    The Small Research and Travel Grants is available to College of Arts and Sciences students.

    Deborah J Kane Scholarship
    The Deborah J. Kane Scholarhship for 3rd-year college students in the humanities and social sciences will provide money for travel overseas to pursue an educational experience with preference given to "untravelled" students wishing to study in Mexico, Central America, or South America.

    Rotary International
    Rotary International sponsors a number of funding programs to "foster peace by building understanding through person-to-person contact, friendship, study, and cross-cultural exchange. Interested students should also contact the Center for Undergraduate Excellence for local contact information.

    United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation
    UNCFSP offers several funding opportunities for minority students participating in a variety of programs.

    Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE)
    Includes programs and services for studying, working and volunteering aboard. Also provides five different scholarships.

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