About the Foundation
The International Carpe Diem Foundation (ICDF) is a 501.c.3 non-profit organization working with students from low-income families, offering scholarships for international experiential education.
Scholarship recipients demonstrate a high financial need, leadership within their communities and a commitment to social justice, personal development, and global citizenship.
At ICDF we're committed to the best possible experience for our students - so that they're then able to bring the lessons they learn back to their home communities. Whereas the previous program was primarily based around working with two low-income students to fund them to do our programs for free, the new one is quite a bit more involved and one where we'll be asking for volunteers to mentor these youth throughout the process... It will be a cohort of 3-8 young adults between the ages of 18-23. Students will focus on international development studies that will take them overseas for a semester then return to Portland for a focused internship at Mercy Corps.
Students must demonstrate:
- Residence in the Portland/Vancouver area of Oregon or Washington
- High school diploma by the time the ICDF program begins
- Acceptance to Portland State University (or average PSU SAT/ACT scores and average GPA)
- Eligibility for the Pell Grant
- First generation college student (no more than one immediate family member can have a college degree)
Click here to download the current ICDF Scholarship Application.