Mission "CMSF is committed to the greatest of Canada’s natural resources: our youth. We work to identify and support talented students who show promise of leadership and a strong commitment to service in the community. We fund these citizens to study on Canadian campuses, to the benefit of their future, and ours."

 How CMSF will use proceeds from Equity Through Education
 About CMSF
 Who Does CMSF Support?
 Awards
 Results
 About Program Recipients – 2008 BMO Capital Markets Loran Scholars

How CMSF will use proceeds from Equity Through Education

The proceeds from Equity Through Education™ are used to fund Loran Awards – four years of undergraduate studies and a comprehensive enrichment program – for women. See below for profiles of the BMO Capital Markets Loran Scholars.

About CMSF

Founded in 1988, CMSF is an independent and privately funded organization that grants the largest undergraduate awards to the country’s most promising young leaders.

• 30 Loran Scholars are selected out of approximately 4,000 applications nationwide.
• The selection process is the most intense and personalized scholarship evaluation in Canada with approximately 300 volunteer assessors and interviewers.
• 23 partner universities in Canada waive tuition costs for Loran Scholars.
• CMSF’s greatest contribution to the scholars is the commitment to go beyond the cheque to ensure that identified potential is fully realized. A unique summer program, mentorship program and finally an alumni organization challenge and stimulate every scholar in a way that goes “one-step-beyond” the ordinary.

Who Does CMSF Support?

Our young scholars are individuals who combine strong leadership potential, entrepreneurial energy and a commitment to service in the community.

Loran Awards

In 2008, CMSF awarded:

• 30 Loran Awards worth up to $75,000 each for four years of undergraduate university studies in Canada (totaling $2.25 million)
• 42 Loran Finalist Awards worth $3,000 each (totaling $132,000)
• 40 Loran Provincial Awards worth $2,000 each (totaling $80,000)

Loran Scholar Results

• 93% of Loran scholars successfully complete their undergraduate studies while meeting our high standards for academic performance and continued service to the community.
• 80 % of Loran alumni are contributing to the medical, business, political, legal, scientific cultural and public service sectors in Canada. The remaining alumni are active in Europe, the US, Japan and South America.
• Eleven Loran scholars have become Rhodes Scholars

About Program Recipients – 2008 BMO Capital Markets Loran scholars

Pinky Langat (Guelph, ON)

As co-chair of the Guelph Youth Council, Pinky was instrumental in establishing a Youth Centre in her community. As part of the Shad Valley program, she did an internship with Research in Motion and developed a resource website for former co-op students. She has also taken part in fundraising and campaigning for global issues as part of her school’s global outreach club. She intends to study neuroscience at McGill University.

Kaitlyn O’Shaughnessey (Belleville, ON)

Kaitlyn has been president of her school’s student council and chair of the global awareness committee. Her initiatives include playing a key role in Brick by Brick, a successful fundraising project to finance the construction of a school in China. She has participated in her church’s Stations of the Cross production as both an actor and a director. She intends to study development or peace and conflict studies at McGill University.

Katherine Pelletier (Montréal, QC)

Katherine is president of her college’s Project Third-World Solidarity team, for which she helped raise $4,600 to pay for the education of 300 people in Rwanda. She is also in charge of her Project AIDS committee, helping to support AIDS patients and educating others about the disease. Katherine is a youth representative on her local political party’s committee. She intends to study law at Université de Montréal.