The Beverly Wilder Memorial Scholarship & MENTORSHIP Program 

The Beverly Wilder Scholarship & Mentorship program, modeled after the late Beverly Wilder, combines scholarships with mentorships to assist students in successfully navigating life and school, ultimately helping them find their true calling.

This Scholarship Program is designed not only to provide financial support to the recipients but also to help them succeed in their educational pursuits. The program offers various resources to the recipients, such as:

• Mentorship: Each recipient will be assigned a mentor to partner with them throughout their college journey. Mentors and recipients will have regular check-ins to provide support and guidance.

• Lunch and Learns: Recipients will attend Lunch and Learns featuring guest speakers on various topics, including financial planning, professional appearance and behavior, overcoming adversity, and more.

• Assessments: Recipients will participate in different assessments to understand their skills, personalities, and how they fit into career choices, teamwork, and other aspects of life. Each assessment will include time with professionals to review the information. Assessments may include:

  • AIMS (Aptitude Inventory Management Services): A program that offers a series of assessments followed by feedback and details from professionals.

  • Myers-Briggs: A personality test based on questions about a person's preferences in four domains: focusing outward or inward, attending to sensory information or adding interpretation, deciding by logic or by situation, and making judgments or remaining open to information.

  • Enneagram: A personality typing tool that distills behaviors, thinking patterns, and feelings into a numerical "type."

Scholarship amounts

• $3,500 for full-time students (minimum of 12 credit hours per semester)

• $1,500 for part-time students (minimum of 6 credit hours per semester)

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be an active full-time or part-time Thrive SMP, LLC or Crescent Hotels* employee as of the application deadline date and when the scholarship awards are disbursed (*Employees of Crescent Hotels must work at the Atlanta Evergreen Hotel, Inn at Stone Mountain or the Stone Mountain Golf Club on the Thrive SMP, LLC property.)

• Be a high school senior or a high school graduate pursuing an undergraduate degree or vocational-technical license/certification

• Have a minimum GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale

Applicants must demonstrate financial need, academic performance, and leadership and participation in their school and community activities. Additionally, applicants will be required to write a brief essay about their career and educational goals.

Applications will be open on April 2nd and will close on May 31st. Winners will be announced the week of July 3rd.

For questions, please email scholarships@thriving-lives.org or contact the Human Resources office at 770-498-5670.

If you have questions about the application process, you may email Scholarship America directly at thrivesmp@scholarshipamerica.org.