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External Awards

NVIT hosts a variety of external awards available to all students in the province. We are very appreciative of and acknowledge the generosity of our continuous supporters. Some awards require that you demonstrate financial need, while others recognize academic achievements, community involvement or other accomplishments.

Students interested in viewing our list of bursaries and scholarships in more detail can make an appointment with a Financial and Academic Planner.

Here are the types of External Awards: (click on any type of External Award to view all bursaries and scholarships)

1. External Community Awards
2. External Awards for Students with Disabilities
3. External Awards for Students enrolling into International Practica Placements or Exchanges
4. Other Websites available to browse additional External Awards

External Community Awards:
(click on any award for further details-you will be redirected to the sponsoring agency's website)

Title of Award 

Amount 

Deadline to Apply 

 All Nations Trust Company Endowment Fund Post Secondary Awards  $500  August 12, 2012
 Arctic Institute of North America Jim Bourque Scholarship  $1000  July 15, 2012
 Assembly of First Nations Jake Fire Award  $2000  June 21, 2012 
 Assembly of First Nations Tommy Prince Award  $2000  June 21, 2012
 Assembly of First Nations Walter Dieter Award  $2000  June 21, 2012
 Barry Sullivan, QC Memorial Bursary  $1000  November 30, 2012
 BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres First Citizens Fund  $700 or $2000    May 28, 2012
 BC Government and Service Employees' Union  $2000-3000  Feb 28, 2013
 BC Housing Award for Full-Time Studies  $1000  April 30, 2012
 BC Hydro Aboriginal Scholarship  $1500  April 13, 2012
 BC Hydro Randy Brant Memorial Scholarship  $2000  April 13, 2012
 Best Western Bakerview Inn Indigenous Bursary  $500  Open-Continuing
 Bishop's Gospel Choir of BC First Nations Computer Technology Fund  Equipment  May 31, 2012
 Cal Callahan Memorial Bursary  $10000  September 30, 2012
 Canada Post Aboriginal Education Incentive Bursary  $1000  August 31, 2011
 Chief Joe Mathias BC Aboriginal Scholarship  TBA  June 15, 2012
 CN Scholarship  $3000  November 30, 2012
 Columbia Institute Lifelong Learning Scholarship  $1000 renewable  June 30, 2012
 ConocoPhillips Canada Aboriginal Award for College/Technical Diploma Pgm  $2000  June 30, 2013
 ConocoPhillips Canada Aboriginal Award for Upgrading/Certificate Pgm  $1000  June 30, 2013
 ConocoPhillips Canada Aboriginal Award for University Degree Pgm  $3000  June 30, 2013
 Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia Education Bursary  $Varies to 3000  Feb/Jun/Oct 15, 2012
 Datatel Scholars Foundation Bursary  $1600-2400  TBA
 Ellen Bell YMCA Memorial Scholarship  $1000  February 15, 2013
 Envision Financial Education Award  TBA  April 2, 2012
 FAAY Bursary Program  $750  October 15, 2012
 FAAY National Aboriginal Scholarships  $2500  October 15, 2012
 FAAY Scholarship Program  $2500  October 15, 2012
 FBCYICN Dream Fund Education Achievement Bursary  $2500  Mar/Jul/Oct, 2012
 FBCYICN Dream Fund Reach for Success Bursary  $Varies  Mar/Jul/Oct, 2012
 Fessenden-Trott Scholarship  $9000  June 1, 2012
 First Nations Health Careers Challenge Bursary  $1000  September 30, 2012
 Flatiron-Graham Aboriginal Scholarship  $10,000  May 21, 2013
 Fraser Institute Student Essay Contest  $750-1000  June 30, 2012
 Fraser Institute Travel Bursary Program  $1200  September 26, 2012
 Fraser Institute Video Contest  $625-2500  December 30, 2012
 George Watts Post Secondary Education Bursary Award  $1500  June 1, 2012
 Harold Arvid Christenson Memorial Scholarship Fund  $600  September 1, 2013
 Helen Bassett Commemorative Student Award  $1000  July 29, 2012
 Holiday Inn and Suites Vancouver Downtown Indigenous Scholarship Program  $2000  Open-Continuing
 Holstein Canada Education Award  $750  November 30, 2012
 Icelandic Canadian Club of British Columbia Scholarship  $Varies  August 15, 2012
 Indspire Aboriginal Health Careers Bursary/Scholarship  $Varies  Jun 1/Nov 1, 2013
 Indspire Post Secondary Educatoin Bursary/Scholarship  $Varies  Jun 1/Nov 1, 2013
 Irving K. Barber BC Aboriginal Student Award  $1000-3500  April 2, 2012
 Irving K. Barber BC Aboriginal Teacher Education Award  $1000-3500  April 2, 2012
 Irving K. Barber One World Experiential Learning Opportunity  $1000  Open-Continuing
 Irving K. Barber One World International Scholarship  $1000-3500  Open-Continuing
 Irving K. Barber One World Scholarship  $1000-3000  Open-Continuing
 Irving K. Barber Pacific Horizons Scholarship  $1000  Open-Continuing
 Irving K. Barber Premier's Scholarship  $5000-10000  Open-Continuing
 Irving K. Barber Transfer Award  $5000  March 1, 2012
 J. Michael Waldram Memorial Model Forest Fellowship  $1000  May 15, 2012
 Joint Diversity Scholarship  $1000  May 1, 2013
 Kin Canada Bursary  $1000  February 1, 2013
 £ãni Etiè Tahltan Scholarship  $300  Open-Continuing
 Leonard Foundation Financial Assistance Scholarship Program  $1000-1500  March 15, 2012
 Lotus Light Charity Scoiety Scholarship  $300  May 15,2012
 Mary Thomas Memorial ECE Scholarship  $1000-1500  July 31, 2013
 Mattison Endowment Fund Scholarship  $2500  May 15, 2012
 Minerva Foundation (BC Housing) Award for BC Women  $1000  April 30, 2012
 Minerva Foundation (BC Housing) Bursary  $750  April 30, 2012
 Minerva Foundation (BC Housing) Kinloch Education Award for Women  $1000  April 30, 2012
 Minerva Foundation (Registered Nurses Foundation of BC) Open Award  $2500  June 15, 2012
 Minerva Foundation (Shelly Appleton-Bunko/Nancy McKinstry) Open Award  $Varies  June 15, 2012
 NAAF Bursaries  $Varies  March 14, 2012
 NAAF Post-Secondary Education Bursary Awards Program  $Varies  Jun 1/Nov 1, 2012
 NEADS Holly Bartlett Memorial Award  $1000  March 1, 2012
 New Relationship Trust Cert., Dip. and/or Trades Post Secondary Bursary    $2000  April 29, 2011
 New Relationship Trust Undergraduate Degree Post Secondary Scholarship  $5000  April 29, 2011
 Nexen Aboriginal Education Award Program  $2000  November 5, 2012
 Norman Taylor Memorial Bursary Program  $1000  July 27, 2012
 Okanagan Nation/Fortis BC Bursary Program  $1200  May 31, 2013
 Pacific Salmon Foundation Stewardship Community Bursary  $2000  October 30, 2012
 Public Guardian and Trustee of BC Education Assistance Fund  $Varies to 3000  April 15, 2013
 Pure Water Scholarship  $300-500  Ongoing
 RBC Aboriginal Student Awards  $4000 renewable  February 28, 2012
 Recession Relief Scholarship through straigtforwardmedia.com  $500  Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct 2013
 Sahtu Renewable Resources Board Scholarship/Bursary  $2000-3500  Open-Continuing
 Scholarship for Children of Public Servants  $2500  April 30, 2013
 Scotiabank Aboriginal Women Leaders Scholarship Award  $1000  May 15, 2012
 Storwell Self-Storage Foster Children Bursary  $2000  September 15, 2012
 StudentAid BC Youth Education Assitance Fund for Former Youth In Care Grant  $5500  Open-Continuing
 Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program  $3500-7000  February 1, 2012
 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program  $5000  January 31, 2012
 Youth In Care Canada Ken Dryden Scholarship  $3000  March 2, 2012

External Awards for Students with Disabillities:
(click on any award for further details-you will be redirected to the sponsoring agency's website)

Title of Award

Amount

Deadline to Apply

 1-800Wheelchair.ca Scholarship  $500  May 1, 2012
 Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians Alan H. Neville Memorial Scholarship  $1000  November 1, 2011
 Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians Rick Oakes Memorial Scholarship  $1000  November 1, 2011
 Barney Danson Scholarship  $5000  May 31, 2013
 BC/Yukon Firefighters' Helping Hand Bursary  $up to 3000  July 31, 2013
 BMO Capital Markets Lime Connect Equity Through Education Scholarship  $5000  Fall 2012
 BMO Financial Group Lime Connect Canada Scholarship & Internship Program  $2500  Fall 2012
 Canada Safeway's Moving Muscles Scholarship  $5000  July 31, 2013
 Canadian Hard of Hearing Association Scholarship Program  $1000  February 28, 2013
 Carlson Wagonlit Bursary  $1000  March 31, 2013
 Christian Record Services Scholarship  $Varies  Nov 1, 2011/Apr 1, 2012
 CHS James Kreppner Memorial Schlolarship & Bursary Program  $5000  April 30, 2013
 CW Deans Memorial Scholarship  $TBA  May 25, 2012
 David Mason Educational Fund  $up to 2000  April 30, 2013
 F.J.L. Woodcock SAPA Scholarship  $1000  May 31, 2013
 Geoff Brachvogel Memorial Scholarship for Chronic Pain, RSD and CRPS  $500  December 1, 2012
 Google Lime Scholarship Program  $5000  February 5, 2012
 IBM Lime Connect Canada Scholarship & Internship Program  $5000  November 21, 2010
 Kit Davison Bursary Endowment Fund (BC)  $1000  July 31, 2013
 Jennifer Laura Eve Wilson Memorial Scholarship  $1000  May 31, 2013
 Judge Brian Stevenson Bursary Fund  $300-500  September 30, 2013
 Lorne Fraser Education Fund Bursary  $700  June 30, 2013
 Lorne Fraser Education Fund Scholarship  $1000-2000  June 30, 2013
 NEADS Equity Through Education Student Award  $3000  March 1, 2012
 NEADS Enbridge Student Award  $3000  March 1, 2012
 NEADS Holly Bartlett Memorial Award  $1000  March 1, 2012
 Phyllis Gretzky Scholarship  $3000  May 31, 2013
 Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Assocation of Canada Bursary  $Unknown  May 15, 2012
 TD Bank Group Lime Connect Canada Scholarship Program  $2500  January 15, 2012
 TD Securities Services Lime Conect Canada Scholarship & Internship Program  $2500  January 15, 2012
 Walter & Wayne Gretzky Scholarship  $3000-5000  May 31, 2013
 William & Dorothy Ferrell Scholarship  $750  February 15, 2012
 Zajac Foundation Scholarship  $400  August 30, 2012

 

 

External Awards for Students enrolling into International Practica Placements or Exchanges:

(click on any award for further details-you will be redirected to the sponsoring agency's website
 

 

Title of Award 

 Amount

Deadline to Apply

 Delta Waterfowl And Wetlands Research Station Summer Field Assistantships  $1000/mth  ongoing
 Education First Academic Study Abroad    varies  unknown 
 Go! Overseas Study Abroad Scholarship  $1000  ongoing
 Go! Volunteer Abroad Scholarship  $1000  ongoing
 Les Roches Hospitality Management Schools  varies  unknown 
 EDC International Business Scholarship  $4000   Spring 2013 
 InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest  $4000   October 31, 2012 
 TEFL Certifications to Teach English Abroad  $10000  November 20, 2012 
 Programme De Bourses D'été Pour Francophones Hors Québec    $1625  February 15, 2013 
 University Language Services Study Abroad Scholarships  $100-500  Mar, Apr. May, 2013

 

Other Websites available to browse additional External Awards:
Here are some additional websites from organizations who provide scholarship and bursary listings and/or sponsor students. Click on any link to download their websites

www.newrelationshiptrust.ca
www.gov.bc.ca/mcf
www.naaf.ca
www.afn.ca
www.theminervafoundation.com
www.canlearn.ca
www.studentawards.com
www.ammsa.com/community-access/scholarships
www.aboriginallearning.ca
www.bcscholarship.ca
www.fnesc.ca
www.scholarshipscanada.com

www.disabilityweblinks.ca

www.fastweb.com

www.finaid.org

www.limeconnect.com/opportunities

www.motiv8.com

www.neads.ca

 

 

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