Live Your Dream Award

The Soroptimist Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women provides women, who serve as the primary wage earners for their families, with the financial resources to offset costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education or additional skills and training.  Recipients can use the award for tuition, books, childcare, carfare, or any other education-related expenses.

You are eligible to apply if you are a woman who:

• Provides the primary financial support for yourself and your dependents. Dependents can include children, spouse, partner, siblings and/or parents.
• Has financial need.
• Is enrolled in or has been accepted to a vocational/skills training or an undergraduate degree program.
• Is motivated to achieve your education and career goals.
• Resides in one of Soroptimist International of the Americas’ member countries/territories (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guam, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, United States of America, Venezuela).
• Has not previously been the recipient of a Soroptimist Women’s Opportunity or Live Your Dream Award.
• Does not have a graduate degree and is not pursuing one currently.
• Is not a Soroptimist member, an employee of Soroptimist International of the Americas or immediate family of either.
• Agrees to write your essays in your own words, without the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Apply to Live Your Dream Award — Applications are due November 15.

Awards are given yearly. For more information, please contact us