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2010 Gay Games Scholarship Program Announces Results

When planning the 2010 scholarship program, The Federation of Gay Games (FGG) and Games Cologne agreed that Games Cologne would concentrate its efforts in its outreach region, Eastern Europe. The FGG would handle applications from the rest of the world. The results are in. Four hundred thirty four applications were received, up substantially from the 199 received in 2006 for Gay Games VII.
Games Cologne will award scholarships to 106 persons in Eastern Europe. Applications were received from 12 countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine.

The Federation of Gay Games will award scholarships to 34 persons to persons that live in 9 countries. Applications were received from 25 countries in the balance of the world. The FGG will award scholarships to applicants from the following countries; the number of awards per country is indicated below. Seventeen of those receiving scholarships are football/soccer players from the Chosen FEW from Johannesburg, South Africa. A generous gift from Dick Uyvari and Joe LaPat is covering the entire team’s travel to Cologne and expenses while they are there.

Award Countries
South Africa – 19
Argentina – 2
Chile – 2
China – 2
Jamaica – 2
Kenya – 2
Philippines – 2
Taiwan – 2
Brazil – 1

This year the Gay Games Scholarship Program received many strong applications can only afford to award a limited number of scholarships. We have placed 10 applicants from 7 countries on a waiting list and they will receive scholarships if additional funds can be raised. The applicants on the waiting list are from the following countries:
Waiting List Countries
Indonesia – 1
Jamaica – 3
Mexico – 2
Pakistan – 1
Philippines – 1
South Africa – 1
Sri Lanka – 1

For information about the program and a video profiling 2006 scholarship recipients, see http://www.gaygames.com/en/participants/scholarship/index.htm.
Details for Eastern Europe. Games Cologne received scholarship applications from 170 persons. Twenty six of those applications were incomplete or duplicates. Games Cologne will award scholarships to 106 of the 144 persons that submitted complete applications. This is 73.6% funding rate. If all Eastern European applications are taken into consideration, 62.3% of all applications were funded.

Details for the Rest of the World. The FGG received a total of 267 scholarship applications. Twenty eight of those applications were incomplete or duplicates.

The FGG will award scholarships to 34 of the 239 persons that submitted complete applications. This is a 14.2% funding rate, which results from the fact that travel costs to Cologne Germany from the rest of the world are considerably higher than from Eastern Europe. If all applications from the rest of the world are taken into consideration, 12.7% of all applications were funded.
Historical perspective. Of the 199 applications received, 122 applications were funded in 2006. Because of visa problems only 92 scholarship recipients attended Gay Games VII in Chicago. In 2006, 61.3% of all applications received were funded. This year, 434 applications were received and 120 applications were funded – or 27.6% of all applications received.

FGG Scholarship Committee
www.GayGames.org

If you or your company would like to contribute to the FGG International Athlete Scholarship Fund go to http://www.gaygames.com/en/participants/scholarship/donor.htm

Or if you would prefer to contribute to the Team Chicago Athlete Scholarship Fund awarded to athletes from Iillinois (Chicago and Suburbs), Southern Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana Athletes go to http://www.TeamChicago.org/node/4