Our  Purpose

The Miss Greater Richmond Scholarship Program is a non-profit scholarship program whose purpose is awarding scholarships to deserving young women ages 17 to 24 years old and providing a forum for their community service.  The program includes two additional scholarship competitions for Outstanding Teen (ages 13-17), and Outstanding Preteen (ages 10-12) Greater Richmond.  The Little Miss (ages 4-6) and Junior Miss (ages 7-9) divisions are awarded savings bonds and spend their year making community service appearances throughout the Greater Richmond area.

The Miss Greater Richmond Scholarship Program is a nonprofit affiliate of the Miss Virginia and Miss America Scholarship Organizations.  The Miss America Organization, with its state and local affiliates, is the number one resource in the world for women to receive educational scholarships.  In 2008, the Miss America Scholarship Organization made available over $45 million dollars to 12,000 women.

The Results

Locally, the program has awarded over $45,000 in scholarships to its contestants in the past eight years.   In addition, six of our seven winners have won collectively over $52,000 at the Miss Virginia Competition. We are extremely proud to have had Miss Virginia 2004, four 1^st runners up and one Top 10 placement at Miss Virginia. In addition, former Miss Greater Richmond’s have won three preliminary swimsuit awards, one preliminary talent award, and one community service award. Caitlin Brunell, Miss Greater Richmond Outstanding Teen 2007 won Miss Virginia’s Outstanding Teen 2007 and Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2008.  Her scholarship winnings totaled over $30,000. 

Our current Miss Greater Richmond, Caitlin Uze, was 2^nd runner up to Miss VA last year and we are excited about her opportunity to become the next Miss VA in June 2010. Caitlin will spend the year promoting her platform, “Building A Positive Self Image” to area school aged children and businesses.

Contact

Please browse our website for information at www.missgreaterrichmond.com.  You may also visit the Miss Virginia website at www.missva.com and the Miss America site at www.missamerica.org.  If you have comments please contact Missy Minton, Executive Director at 804-723-4664 or by email at missgtrrichmond@yahoo.com.