Here are the scholarships we offer this year:

Guidelines

• · For Undergraduates scholarships, applicants must be entering their sophomore or junior year by the summer of 2008.
• · For Graduate scholarships, applications must be submitted no earlier than your senior undergraduate year and no later than your second year of graduate studies.
• · Evaluation criteria may include merit, character, estimated future potential, background (for example, parent's AFIO membership or careers etc), and relevance of their studies to the full spectrum of national security interests and career ambitions.
• · Applications are evaluated by a special AFIO committee. Evaluations will be impressionistic and personal, by committee consensus, and with decisions final.
• · Tuition grants will be paid directly to the Bursar/Registrar of the University concerned –under NO circumstances will payments be made directly to awardees.
• · All applicants must be U.S. citizens. No Scholarship will be awarded to students attending foreign universities or schools not US-accredited.

Applicants must provide:

1. Cover Letter (i.e. need for scholarship)
2. Resume (i.e. address, age, college, experience, extra-curricular activities)
3. A copy of your academic transcript - need not be original or "official"
4. One recommendation
5. Recent photograph
6. Indicate for WHICH scholarship you are applying.

All applications can be sent to the AFIO address at the bottom of this email.

AFIO Scholarships Available for the 2008 fall Semester

1. THE HAROLD AND MARIA RANSBURG AMERICAN PATRIOT UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS - $15,000

The late Harold Ransburg, and his very much alive wife, Maria, have been longtime generous supporters of AFIO and its educational mission on behalf of national security, patriotism and loyalty to the constitution. Mrs. Maria Ransburg is particularly interested in fostering patriotism among our youth. In furtherance of that interest, Mrs. Ransburg is this year again generously supporting the award of multiple AFIO scholarships to deserving American graduate and undergraduate students of intelligence, foreign affairs, and/or national security studies for the fall semester of 2008. Award amounts will range from $1,500 to $3,000. Applicants should indicate whether they are applying for a graduate or undergraduate award.

2. THE LIFE'S CHOICES FOUNDATION GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS - $8,000

This donation from the Morris Family Charitable Corporation provides two $4,000 scholarships to graduate students who are focusing on national security or intelligence studies and who are, or have the intent of, serving in the U.S. Government. Candidates for this scholarship should be AFIO members, their children or grandchildren, or of personnel serving in government agencies comprising the U.S. Intelligence Community.

3. THE AL PONTE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD - $1250

Mr. Albano F. Ponte is a vital part of AFIO's "legion of merit," through active participation and time, talent and funds donated to AFIO programs and development. His generous financial donations make this scholarship possible. Eligibility: Students who are going to graduate school, focusing on International Relations and/or Intelligence, and who are either AFIO members, or children (grandchildren) of AFIO members or of serving Intelligence personnel. Award amount is $1,250.

*Candidates should, in addition to fitting the profiles immediately above, provide the following application materials (in lieu of materials listed elsewhere in this announcement): a cover letter, Resume, a letter of recommendation, and a photograph. The cover letter should describe, in as much detail as possible,any relevant prior experience as well as the future plans of the applicant to which this grant would be applied.

Send Application Items to:

AFIO 2008 Scholarships Committee
6723 Whittier Ave, Ste 303A
McLean, Virginia 22101-4533

Information:

AFIO e-mail: afio@afio.com