Empowering
tommorow’s
Leaders
At The Eastport Foundation, we empower talented individuals to pursue world-class education. Rooted in Polish tradition, we believe learning transforms lives and communities. We offer scholarships to exceptional students to study at leading universities worldwide, fostering a new generation ready to make a positive impact.
Our
Goals
Investing in Talent
Our scholarship program is the cornerstone of The Eastport Foundation. Each year, we select exceptionally talented individuals enrolled or accepted into degree programs at prestigious universities. Scholars receive a one-time stipend of [amount] and become lifelong members of our network.
Lifelong Connections
Scholars join an exclusive society that fosters connections and mentorship. Annually, members gather in Warsaw for a dinner with distinguished speakers and community-building activities.
As our network grows, past scholars mentor new members, creating a supportive environment for personal and professional growth.
Join Our Mission
Join us at The Eastport Foundation and become part of a tradition that values education, leadership, and the pursuit of excellence. Together, we can shape a better future.
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empower talent and ambition Our Herritage and Mission
Poland has always thrived on worldly, equitable education and withered under ignorance and barriers to intellectual growth. During the Polish Golden Age in the 16th century our most distinguished statesmen, artists and scientists – from Nicolaus Copernicus to Jan Kochanowski – first embarked on ambitious educational journeys in the intellectual centers of their contemporary world, before achieving great dignity and success in service of their country. A degeneration of Poland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries was marked by falling standards of education, a lack of appreciation for the intellect and learning, as well as nepotism in the highest offices and widening barriers to advancement for the talented.
A renewed emphasis on elite education open to gifted students of modest means was rekindled in the 1760s with the rise of Polish Enlightenment. This period of intense intellectual growth despite military and political weakness of the state saw the founding of the Warsaw Cadet Corps, an elite, scholarship-based public high school; the Commission of National Education, Europe’s first ministry of education; and the Załuski Library of the Republic, one of Europe’s first and largest public libraries, among many other enterprises. Within two decades those investments in education and social advancement produced a generation that on May 3, 1791 promulgated Europe’s first constitution and fought in the defense of freedom and the pursuit of happiness across the world for the following four decades.
Tadeusz Kościuszko, a graduate of the Cadet Corps and recipient of a private scholarship from the Czartoryski family to study in France, was the most famous product of the Polish Enlightenment. A poor provincial noble by birth, this hero of Poland and the United States would not have realized his potential without the opportunities opened to him by free world-class education. Dozens of other graduates of the Cadet Corps and holders of private scholarships have written, legislated, fought and died in the name of liberty and the pursuit of happiness across Europe and America from the 1780s until 1831. That year, the last living members of that great generation, by then elder statesmen and generals, fled Warsaw to an exile in France following the collapse of the anti-Russian uprising of November 1830, fought as much for independence as for the ideas of liberty and limited government.
Having extinguished Polish statehood for the threat that its renewed commitment to liberty caused to them, our enemies proceeded to destroy that which they found most important to the strength of the Polish nation – our culture and educational institutions. In the late 1790s the Russian imperial government closed the Warsaw Cadet Corps, liquidated the Commission of National Education and systematically plundered the Library of the Republic alongside most other large libraries in the country. Following 1831, Russian repression again targeted education, culture and works of art, all bemoaned by Adam Mickiewicz in his report “On the losses of Polish culture” published in exile. Ever since then, but especially during the Second World War, those that wanted to see Poland destroyed and liberty curtailed in Central and Eastern Europe set out to murder the educated elites and destroy the means of education.
Empowering the
Next Generation
Building a
Legacy of Excellence
Application process
Application deadline and requirements
- We consider applications on a rolling basis. There is no deadline and no fixed annual number of fellowships.
- In order to apply for our scholarships prospective applicants need to study, or hold offers to study, at degree-granting programs at selected universities.
Submission of Documents
- Submit your resume.
- Provide proof of studying or an offer to study at one of the accredited universities.
- Write and submit a personal statement outlining your goals and motivations.
Selection Interview
- Selected applicants will be invited for a conversation with the selection committee.
- During the interview, applicants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their leadership potential and passion for making a positive impact.
Notification of Results
- After the interviews, applicants will be notified of the results.
- Results will also be published online.
Timeline
Application submission
Interview Invitations Sent
Interviews Conducted
