When your entry is ready to submit, make sure you have completed the following:
- Video in MP4 file format (properly labeled).
- Written statement of need (included in application).
- Video/Image Release Form & Terms and Conditions (in application) signed by any persons (and legal guardians if necessary) featured in your video.
For questions and inquiries email scholarship@chicago.bbb.org
To complete your submission for the video scholarship contest, read the below terms and accept them on the submission form:
Terms & Conditions
By entering the 2025 BBB Foundation College Scholarship Video Contest entrants release and hold the promoter harmless from and against all losses, damages, rights, claims, and action. BBB is not responsible for any claim involving copyright, trademark, or royalty infringements related to the work.
By submitting your entry, you certify that you are authorized to submit this work and that all clearances and licenses necessary for public display of the work have been granted and agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless the Better Business Bureau for any liabilities and expenses in connection with any claims based on any entry submitted to BBB.
Scholarship funds are sent directly to the relevant academic institution the student will be attending. The funds are strictly for tuition, no exceptions. The academic institution must be accredited by a nationally recognized accreditation group. The academic institution may be a college, university, two-year college, junior college, trade school, or other comparable institution.
Winners agree to provide the Better Business Bureau of Chicago & Northern Illinois with future updates on how the scholarship money was used and status on higher education efforts.
BBB retains the right to accept or decline any entry, for whatever reason, without notice or explanation.
Nudity, profanity, explicit violence, drug use, or references to drug use or anything the committee finds offensive or vulgar are grounds for rejection.
You request BBB to evaluate and judge the submitted material. Entering the competition constitutes permission to use the names and likenesses of the submission for publicity and promotions with no compensation. Additionally, the entry becomes the property of BBB and may be used in future promotions, events or marketing campaigns and cannot be returned.
You indemnify BBB, their affiliates, sponsors, employees, board members, and judges of and from any and all claims, loss, or liability that may be asserted against you or incurred by you or any associates, at any time in connection with the submitted work.
BBB Video Scholarship Image and Video Release
I understand these images and/or video may be used for a variety of purposes and may appear on the BBB website, events, promotional materials, or any other media now known or to be invented.
Since anyone can download an image from the Internet or make copies from printed materials, I agree that Better Business Bureau is not responsible for unauthorized use of the images. I am aware that I am not entitled to any compensation and that the images may appear with or without my name.