Who Are We
The Miss
America Organization is the leading provider of scholarships for young
women in the world. Each year, more than $41 million in cash and tuition
scholarship assistance is made available to the 12,000 young women who compete
in the system across the country on the local, state and national
levels.
Today, the Miss
America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs
as well as the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for
young women. Rich in history and social significance, the Miss America
Organization is a not-for-profit organization that has maintained a
tradition for many decades of empowering young women to achieve their
personal and professional goals, while providing a forum in which to
express their opinions, talent and intelligence. Participating not only helps young women pay for college and prepare for
a career, it also provides an opportunity for them to gain additional
life experience by, working on issues of importance to society,
enhancing their personal and professional skills and developing their
performance-related and other talents.
Over the past
35 years, the Miss Klamath County-Miss City of Sunshine Scholarship
Program has been fortunate to award in excess of $275,000.00 in
scholarships and awards to local participants. However, were it
not for the philanthropic community including businesses, individuals
and civic associations, this program would not be possible!
Miss America is
a global advocate for social and political issues that
touch
everyone's lives. Though it is Miss America herself who fills the
spotlight during her year of service, the Miss America Organization is
built on a vast network of grassroots support--individuals and
communities who believe that service in ones community is a means to
show patriotism as well as a way to gain depth of character.
Contestants at
all levels of the Miss America program--from the local organization in
Anytown, USA to the national telecast in Atlantic City--are required to
clearly define a social issue to which they are sincerely committed and
for which each will be an activist during her year of service.
Reflecting the range of contestants with different backgrounds and
viewpoints, the platforms are as diverse and varied as America itself.
Over
the course of our existence, local contestants have promoted and
advocated for such platforms as Literacy, Character Education, Breast
Cancer Awareness, Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education, Early Childhood
Education, and a host of other issues highly relevant to our community,
our state and our nation. Contestants have given thousands of
hours in volunteer service to a myriad of organizations in our
community.