BSA Registration Scholarship Application
If you have any questions about the award process or if you need to amend your responses after you've submitted your scholarship application, contact the NEIC office at 847-433-1813. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) must be completed in order to submit the application. The Northeast Illinois Council (NEIC) wants to ensure that interested youth can afford Scouting. There are a number of resources available to provide support to families to assist in paying the BSA registration fee. Your unit (e.g., your pack or troop) may provide support. If you are comfortable doing so, you could check with one of your unit leaders (e.g., Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Committee Chair, or Treasurer) to ask whether the unit will provide any support, but we do not require you to do so. Additionally, there are ways for Scouts to earn money for this purpose. Nearly all units hold fundraising events during the Scout year, in which Scouts sell a product like popcorn or sell tickets to a pancake breakfast or spaghetti dinner. Sometimes, Scouts can earn awards through those sales, which they can use to pay Scouting expenses. Even if your unit does not participate in the NEIC’s annual fall popcorn sale, it is possible for your Scout or Scouts to sell popcorn on their own. Contact Rebecca Minsley at rebecca.minsley@scouting.org for more information on this opportunity. Most Importantly, the NEIC will provide scholarships to those families who continue to need financial support. The NEIC will not turn any youth away due to an inability to pay. WHEN WILL I HEAR BACK ON MY APPLICATION? NEIC’s goal is to respond within 10 days of receiving the completed application. If there is a surge of applications or specific personnel are absent at key times, it may take longer. But NEIC wants to process these applications quickly and distribute award letters on a timely basis. WHAT IF I HAVE MORE THAN ONE SCOUT IN THE FAMILY? You must submit one application per Scout. If you need to submit another application. A link to submit another application will be available in the confirmation email after you complete this one. CONFIDENTIALITY: We may contact a leader of your unit to ascertain or confirm what financial assistance, if any, your unit may provide to its families. Such contact may require disclosing to that leader that you have sought financial assistance from the council, but we will not disclose any of your financial information to that leader. We will use all reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of the information that you submit to us. A limited number of council staff members will have access to the information you have provided. These staff members will use all reasonable efforts to avoid disclosure of any of your personally identifiable information, except (i) as described in the previous paragraph and (ii) as necessary to assure that you receive such financial assistance.