PAVE Global Student Aid - Spring 2025
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The PAVE Global Student Aid Program provides financial assistance to college students worldwide who are experiencing economic hardship while pursuing degrees in design-related fields. This includes students studying retail design, interior design, architecture, visual merchandising, industrial design, UX/UI design, graphic design, product design, and similar disciplines that prepare them for careers shaping consumer environments.
These grants can help offset essential living and educational expenses including:
- Food and Housing
- Tuition and Textbooks
- Health insurance and medical care
- Utilities and Transportation
Through this support, PAVE Global aims to ensure that talented students can complete their education and pursue their design careers regardless of financial circumstances.
Students who are interested in applying should review the guidelines below and submit a completed application, with supporting documents, by Friday, April 18, 2025, before 11:59 PM Eastern/8:59 PM Pacific. The application portal will automatically close promptly at midnight Eastern/9:00 PM Pacific.
GUIDELINES:
- Student must be currently enrolled in a college-level program working toward a degree related to the creation of consumer environments, i.e. in visual merchandising, store design, interior design, architecture, graphic design, industrial design, or similar.
- Student must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better based on a 4.0 GPA scale.
- Student must be a full-time student enrolled in at least 12 credit hours.
- $1,000 USD per student will be awarded.
APPLICATION MUST INCLUDE:
The following four items must be submitted with your application form for your request to be considered.
- Letter of Explanation (500 words max): A letter explaining your current financial challenges and how PAVE's assistance would help address them. Include specific details about your situation and intended use of funds. Additionally, share your educational and career aspirations - how will your degree in design help you contribute to the future of consumer environments? Your letter should demonstrate both compelling financial need and your potential to make an impact in your chosen field.
- Work Sample (2-3 pages max): Highlights of your most recent design work. Must be individual work, cannot be a group project.
- One reference: We will need a phone number and email address of your reference. Can be a professor, faculty member, or an employer (including internship supervisors). References CANNOT be friends or family members.
- Copy of your current transcript (official or unofficial).
Both merit and need-based criteria will be used when determining recipients. Applicants’ GPA and level of need will be considered.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2025, BEFORE 11:59 PM EASTERN/8:59 PM PACIFIC.
QUESTIONS?
Please contact PAVE via email at info@paveglobal.org.