WIN SCHOLARSHIP AS EARLY AS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO STUDY WHAT SCHOLARSHIPS MIGHT HELP YOU.
Over the past 15 years, college scholarship strategist Jean O’Toole has spoken before thousands of students, inspiring them to pursue their academic dreams. Now she has a new book out that helps them afford those dreams, Scholarship Strategies: Finding and Winning the Money You Need (Morgan James Publishing, Trade Paper,128 pages, $17.95, ISBN: 987-1-64279-482-3).

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“You don’t need to be academically at the top of your class a star athlete, or a student with financial need in order to qualify for thousands of dollars of scholarship opportunities,” asserts O’Toole, co-founder of Connections101, a youth empowerment company specializing in motivational tools for outside scholarship searching.
O’Toole has helped students win thousands of dollars, including some individuals that were awarded up to $200,000.
“Money for college is out there,” she encourages. “You just need to know where to find it and how to win it. It’s all about working smarter and not harder. ”
In Scholarship Strategies, the motivational speaker shares her vast knowledge, laying out 25 clear strategies for winning the money needed for college, and identifies 15 ways to reduce college costs beyond scholarships and traditional financial aid.
O’Toole shares:
● How students can take a smart, methodical, organized, and disciplined approach to apply for many winnable scholarships.
● Which scholarships have less competition and lower thresholds to win?
● How students can identify their strengths, interests, connections, demographics, and accomplishments in order to be in a position to qualify for plenty of scholarships.
● Additional money students can win for room and board, books, travel, or study abroad – even if they get a full ride because of academics, athletics, or financial need.
● How parents can collaborate with students to divide and conquer the scholarship search process.
● Why guidance counselors, librarians, financial advisors, alumni, and government agencies each only know about some scholarships — and why you need to consult with many resources to get a complete picture of the scholarship landscape.
● Harmful scholarship myths that are debunked.
● How students as young as kindergarteners and middle-schoolers — or those older than 30 — can still win scholarships.
● Many examples of odd, unique, and rare scholarships that almost anyone could win.
“Higher education costs continue to rise,” says O’Toole. “Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in the United States reaching $1.5 Trillion dollars. Whether it costs a family$30,000 or $300,000 for a college degree, scholarship monies can dramatically reduce costs and benefit the bottom line..”
Some of O’Toole’s strategies include:
● Applying for local and regional scholarships first.
● Seeking out a series of small scholarships and not just one big one.
● Starting a scholarship search even before high school.
● Joining groups and organizations so you can qualify to apply for their scholarships.
● Asking family members and friends about scholarships from their employer, group affiliations, Jonestown.
● Talk to scholarship winners to gain insight on how they won.
● Form a bond with a scholarship buddy and share info on scholarships to apply to.
● Start applying early and often – and keep track of your applications.
● Using past homework assignments as material for scholarships as a huge time saver.
“Parents and students will be amazed at how much money is available to them for scholarships they never imagined even existed,” says O’Toole. “Anyone who follows the advice in Scholarships Strategies and uses the resources at www.Connections101.com are certain to find more scholarships than if they only rely on their school guidance offices.
“Jean’s energy and enthusiasm capture the student’s attention from the get-go, and she gets them to think about college and scholarships in new and different ways. Not only does she share her knowledge and insight with students, but she also provides them with strategies they need to take action and be successful in their pursuits. Jean provides an amazing resource; there is nothing like it out there!”
–Fran Fercara, College Counselor, Fort Hamilton High School, New York City

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Students will remain silent throughout the school day or during non-instructional time to illustrate the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bias and behavior.

“GLSEN’s Day of Silence has changed me as a person,” said Christin Manus, a 17-year-old high school junior from Dacula, Ga. “When I was a freshman in high school, I was incredibly shy and not quite out of the closet. I found it difficult to love myself and speak out. I came out on Day of Silence that year. People called me fag and slammed me into lockers. Day of Silence is important to me because I want to be the voice of all the kids who are afraid and scared to be who they are.”

GLSEN’s Day of Silence is a student-led event modeled after peaceful and non-violent protests throughout history. The action was created by students at the University of Virginia in 1996, inspired by former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and a class he teaches on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The Day of Silence became a GLSEN program in 2001 and has grown to one of the largest youth events in the world.

“For nearly two decades, students across the country – and now the world – have come together on GLSEN’s Day of Silence to show their support for peers who are experiencing anti-LGBT bullying and to urge schools to take action to make their hallways, classrooms and locker rooms safer for LGBT students,” GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard said. “Our society has come a long way since students created the Day of Silence in 1996, but LGBT students still face extreme levels of victimization and we need to do more to ensure that they are safe and respected. The Day of Silence continues to play an important role in advancing that dialogue.”

More than 8 out of 10 LGBT students (82%) are harassed at school each year because of their sexual orientation and more than 6 out of 10 (64%) because of their gender expression, according to GLSEN’s 2011 National School Climate Survey. More than 31% of LGBT students said they missed at least a day of school in the past month because they felt unsafe.

The report also found that students who are more frequently harassed skip school more often, have lower grade point averages, higher rates of depression and lower self-esteem, and are less likely to go on to college.

The report shows, however, that students at schools that take action to address anti-LGBT bias and behavior – such as supporting students who participate in GLSEN’s Day of Silence – experience less victimization, have better educational outcomes and report better mental health.

To participate, students often wear shirts, stickers or buttons and hand out speaking cards to explain why they are silent. The card reads:

“Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement bringing attention to the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by anti-LGBT bullying, name-calling and harassment.

I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward building awareness and making a commitment to address these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today.”

Students from more than 8,000 middle schools, high schools and colleges in every state, the District of Columbia and 70 countries participated in the Day of Silence in 2013.

About GLSEN 

GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established in 1990, GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. GLSEN seeks to develop school climates where difference is valued for the positive contribution it makes to creating a more vibrant and diverse community. For information on GLSEN’s research, educational resources, public policy advocacy, student organizing programs and educator training initiatives, visit www.glsen.org.

About GLSEN’s Day of Silence

GLSEN’s Day of Silence is a day of action in which hundreds of thousands of students across the world vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Created in 1996, the Day of Silence was inspired by Julian Bond and a class he teaches on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The Day of Silence has become the largest student-led action aimed at creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

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FABIO Lanzoni ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈfaːbjo lanˈtsoːni]); born March 15, 1959 or 1961),^[1][2] widely known simply as Fabio, is an Italian fashion model, spokesperson, author, actor, who appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout the 1980s and 1990s.^[3]

Career

Television and media

Fabio starred in the syndicated TV series Acapulco H.E.A.T. as the role of Claudio. He was also featured in calendars, led a fragrance campaign for Mediterraneum by Versace, and landed a role in commercials for “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!“. He appeared in “The Bold and the Beautiful” a number of times, as a close friend of the character Sally Spectra (Fabio and Darlene Conley, who played Sally, were close friends in real life). He appeared in one episode of Step by Step called “Absolutely Fabio”. Fabio appeared as well on Ned’s Declassified. He was also in a Big Time Rush episode and reprised his role in the Nickelodeon television series once again in their third TV movie, Big Time Christmas. In 2010, he appeared in an episode of The Suite Life on Deck called “Senior Ditch Day” as Captain Hawk. He has also cameoed in the films Dude, Where’s My Car?, Spy Hard and Zoolander.

In 1994, Fabio released an album titled Fabio After Dark, which included soliloquies on his philosophy of love.^[3]

Fabio can also be seen posing as the hero Kuros on the cover of the 1989 video game Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Fabio hosted the American reality television series Mr. Romance in 2005. The series featured a dozen male contestants competing for the title of “Mr. Romance” and the opportunity to appear as a romance novel cover model.

In 1992, Robert Gottlieb became Fabio’s literary agent. Fabio became the first best-selling male romance writer who did not use a pseudonym.^{[citation needed]} In collaboration with Eugena Riley, Fabio’s first few books were titled Pirate, Rogue,Comanche, Viking and Champion. The genre of his first books were historical romance. He wrote three more books in collaboration with Wendy Corsi Staub titled Dangerous, Wild, and Mysterious.

Spokesperson

One of Fabio’s most memorable advertising campaigns was for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!. He was the spokesperson for the company since 1994. He was also the spokesperson for the Geek Squad in 2007, Oral-B’s Sensitive Advantage Toothbrush in 2006 (whose ad was featured in Times Square), and one of his most popular ads to date is for Nationwide Insurance. In 2006, the commercial for Nationwide aired during the Super Bowl and was the most viewed commercial for the game, garnering over 1 million views within two weeks. Other endorsements included Wicks Furniture, Ames Hardware, Old Spice, and the American Cancer Society.^[4]

On July 26, 2011, Old Spice launched a new campaign on YouTube in which Fabio challenges Isaiah Mustafa to try to replace him as the New Old Spice Guy. The online challenge was entitled Mano a Mano in el Baño (hand-to-hand in the bathroom). Mustafa emerged as the winner, though Fabio’s Old Spice YouTube Channel received more than 9 million views in the week after its debut, rising to Number 4 on YouTube for the week.^[5]

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