The QTG Quality, Trust and Growth Scholarship was created by the East Division in 2006 to give back to the communities along the East Coast where QTG does business. The Division will be providing college scholarships to outstanding students with financial need. The vision is to help provide QUALITY educations, build TRUST in our communities, and foster the GROWTH of future talent.

Scholarships are self-funded by the money the East Division receives from Evergreen Environmental Services in Scarborough, ME. The Division receives these funds for QTG products that are recycled in the state of Maine.

The Scholarship Program will provide for ten $10,000 scholarships annually. Recipients must meet the following requirements: Current college freshman through junior (award may be renewed), attend a selected East Coast University (listed below), have a minimum 3.0 GPA, demonstrate leadership activities and community service, major in Business or Liberal Arts with an interest in a sales or marketing career, and demonstrate financial need. Recipients must also complete the following essay: Quaker, Tropicana and Gatorade have adopted the values of quality, trust and growth. Please highlight one of these values and describe how it has shaped and affected your life.

Colleges that are being targeted for this scholarship are: City College of NY, Howard University, Northeastern University, Penn State University, Saint Joseph's University, SUNY Binghamton, Temple University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Virginia Tech.

Scholarship recipients will be invited to send a resume for 2-3 internships and/or cooperative opportunities across the East Division (Upstate NY/NE, Metro-NY, Mid-Atlantic/Carolinas and/or Category Mgmt/Sales Strategy).

The first scholarships will be awarded in February 2007.

To visit the Scholarship Website, please direct your Internet browser to: http://www.sms.scholarshipamerica.org/qtgsales