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Lambda Mu Alumni Chapter · Atlanta, Georgia

The barrier is rarely ability

For a lot of Latino and Hispanic students across Georgia and Tennessee, what stands between them and a degree is not talent or effort. It is a few hundred dollars arriving at the wrong moment.

Applications open Tuesday, September 15, 2026. 18 days to go

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Eight brothers in white Lambda Theta Phi polos standing together under a wooden gazebo.

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · 9:30 AM

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The need

The barrier is rarely ability

For a lot of Latino and Hispanic students across Georgia and Tennessee, what stands between them and a degree is not talent or effort. It is a few hundred dollars arriving at the wrong moment.

1 in 5
Latino adults in Georgia hold a bachelor's degree. Statewide it is closer to 1 in 3.
$11,000
in unmet need every year for Georgia's Pell Grant students, after all aid is counted.
20,000+
Latino undergraduates are enrolled across our nine partner campuses.

Small gaps end degrees. Georgia State was dropping roughly 1,000 students a semester over unpaid balances, most of them under $2,500. Once the university began covering those balances with small grants, more than 86 percent of the students it caught went on to graduate.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS via Latino Community Fund Georgia, 2024 · Georgia Senate testimony reported by Inside Higher Ed, 2026 · IPEDS Fall 2023 via Excelencia in Education · Georgia State University Panther Retention Grants

Three brothers performing on stage in white jerseys under blue stage lighting.

Every fall

Six years of this, paid for by people who were once the ones applying

Six years in

Building a foundation

6
Years running
15
Scholarships awarded
$15,000
Dollars awarded
9
Partner campuses

How to help

Four gifts make one scholarship

4 gifts of $250 make one $1,000 scholarship.

Every award is $1,000, and every dollar you give goes into one. One student. One award. All of it.

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Where your money goes

Every dollar reaches a student

One hundred percent of what you give is awarded. Nothing is held back for administration or overhead.

Read blind

Essays reach the committee with no name and no school attached, so awards are decided on merit alone.

Handed over in person

Recipients are recognized at our Founders Day celebration in the metro Atlanta area, in front of the chapter.

Run entirely by volunteer alumni brothers of the Lambda Mu chapter.

The chapter

The brothers behind the award

Every dollar is raised, counted and handed over by these men, working professionals who read the essays on their own time and pay for the awards out of their own pockets.

  • Three brothers performing on stage in white jerseys under blue stage lighting.
  • Eight brothers in white Lambda Theta Phi polos standing together under a wooden gazebo.
  • Nine brothers in brown fraternity jackets outdoors at night, throwing the hand sign.
  • Four brothers in fraternity jackets standing in a line outside a brick campus building, flags flying behind them.
  • Five brothers in black suits around the Kennesaw State University monument sign.
  • Four brothers strolling in a tight line on stage under red light, the arena crowd behind them.
  • Three brothers in fraternity jackets on a staircase, the centre one holding a large wooden crest.
  • A large group of brothers in white shirts holding the Lambda Theta Phi flag in a hotel ballroom.
  • Five brothers mid-stroll on stage in front of a packed university arena.
  • Around twenty brothers gathered on a playing field at sunset, throwing the fraternity's hand sign.
  • Nine brothers in suits seated around a banquet table at a formal dinner.
  • A large group of brothers on stage at a Lambda Theta Phi Foundation banquet, one holding an award plaque.
  • A large group of brothers outdoors at night on a brick walkway, throwing the hand sign.
  • Eight brothers in suits seated around a round table at a chapter event.

The ask

Help us fund year seven

Six years ago this chapter decided that Latino students in Georgia and Tennessee should not have to choose between a degree and a bill. Fifteen scholarships later, that has held up because people like you paid for it.

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