scholarships
Our PFL (Prepared for Life) scholarship is awarded annually to students who have demonstrated outstanding character in the areas of service and leadership, showing these characteristics in their decision to serve as positive ambassadors for safe driving to their peers and in their communities.
Scholarship
Application Requirements
To become eligible, students who have signed the 43 Key Seconds Safe Driving Pledge and completed the Safeguarding Your Legacy Curriculum, will be asked to submit four essays (between 500-750 words) describing how they have been impacted by their experience with the Lutzie 43 Foundation and how they have applied the safe driving habits to their lives. Applicants must submit an official transcript, resume and mentor letter of recommendation as a PDF in the application or emailed to stotts@knighteady.com. Applicants to the Lutzie 43 Foundation Scholarship Program must meet the following minimum criteria:
- Applicants must be high school juniors or seniors or current undergraduate or graduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in a full-time accredited program at a two-year or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school located in the United States.
- Applicants must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent) at the time of application.
- Applicants must sign the 43 Key Seconds safe driving pledge. You must apply within two years of signing the safe driving pledge or applicants need to re-sign pledge.
- Applicants must complete the Safeguarding Your Legacy Curriculum. Completing the curriculum is NOT your scholarship application.
- Applicants must plan to continue their education in the fall semester immediately following the distribution of the 2024 PFL Scholarship.
- Applicants that are enrolling in post-secondary university or college must enroll in at least 12 hours per semester. Applicants currently enrolled in post-secondary university or college must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours per semester. Graduate students must be enrolled in a minimum of 6 hours per semester.
Details of the PFL Scholarship
The 2024 PFL Scholarship application period is closed. To be the first to know when the 2025 PFL Scholarship Application opens, click here.
If selected as a recipient of the 2024 $4,300 PFL Scholarship, you will receive $1,300 for your first year. From then, you will receive the remainder of the $4,300 over the remaining years of your undergraduate college education at a rate of $1,000 per year over no more than four years. If the applicant is currently enrolled in secondary school, the distribution of the scholarship will be discussed and planned out with the recipient.
If selected the recipient will be asked to support the Lutzie 43 Foundation in several ways over the remaining term of your scholarship.
- The recipient will be asked to write a blog post about winning the PFL Scholarship.
- If able, the recipient will be asked to support of annual Road Race that takes place in early August, as a volunteer or participant (on-site or virtual runner).
You will be asked to send a year-in-review letter to the Lutzie 43 Foundation each year to receive the rest of the scholarship funds. Please review year 1 expectations below.
Please email abby@lutzie43.org with any additional questions.
