Audience: business and civic associates
Message: Bless us in this achievement.
Tone: formal
Timing: 2 minutes

As we are gathered here today to present these scholarship funds to (name) University, we seek Your blessings on our efforts and intentions.

We are mindful this money collected throughout the nation from friends and alumni of the organization is but a token of the love we hold for learning. As paper, the money is nothing. But at work in the lives of young people, we know it means a future for the individuals involved and a contribution to society and all of us.

To those scholarship recipients, the money will bring hard work, respect for authority, appreciation of knowledge, development of skills, and a manner of livelihood. For society, these scholarships represent a quest for more knowledge, a desire for the cures to the diseases that afflict us, a prevention of economic and industrial evils that plague us, a hope for a better life for generations to come.

Thank You for the blessings on us individually and collectively—blessings that have allowed us to work and see the financial rewards of that work.

Thank You that our resources are enough to meet our own needs and to share.

Thank You for giving contributors a charitable spirit and foresight about this need.

Thank You for giving leadership in this academic community to oversee the uses of this money.

And finally, thank You for the dedication and determination of those young people who will achieve because of these scholarships.

Bless us together.