Scholarships

The Loss Prevention Foundation’s mission is to advance the loss prevention profession by increasing awareness of the Foundation and its' career enhancing certification programs.

The LPF Scholarship Committee strives to ensure that the LPQ and LPC courseware scholarships (valued at $495 and $795 respectively) are offered to a variety of audiences through a variety of means in order to achieve our mission.

If you cannot find the scholarship program below for you, the LPF also invites you to consider inquiring with your company's human resource department for tuition assistance. Click here to understand more about tuition assistance for LPQ or LPC courseware.


Current Scholarship Offerings


  1) For professionals from our partners:
  • Vector Security - Early every year Vector offers members of our community the chance to compete for LPQ and LPC course and exam scholarships. The LPF appreciates their continued support of LP professional certification.

  • See their 2012 Retail Loss Prevention Certification LPQualified and LPCertified Certification Course Scholarship Winners!

    •   2) For full-time students from us:
  • For information about LPQ student scholarships click here.

    •  3) For full-time students and professionals from IOBSE:
  • The International Organization of Black Security Executives offers LPQ scholarships to deserving students and as prizes at its conferences. Click here to learn more.

    •   4) For professionals from related industries:
  • The below organizations award LPQ and LPC courseware as conference prizes. Click below to learn more about their upcoming conferences or click here to review LPF's upcoming industry event listing:

       - Food Marketing Institute conferences click here.
       - National Retail Federation conferences click here.
       - National Food Service Security Council conferences click here.
       - Retail Industry Leaders Association conferences click here.

    •   5) For select, participating veterans from "Hire A Vet" retailers:
  • For information to enroll in our "Hire A Vet" program which increases visibility and opportunity for LPQ scholarships from participating retailers click here.

    •   6) For special hardship situations from us:
  • The Loss Prevention Foundation recognizes that sometimes people find themselves in very difficult, unusual life circumstances where they cannot afford our LPQ or LPC courseware. From time to time, the LPF can recognize such situations with a scholarship. If you have a proven interest in Loss Prevention, are willing to share your circumstances with us, and are open to verification of such, do contact us to see if we have a scholarship available for you.

    • The Loss Prevention Foundation appreciates the organizations that considerately create and administer LPF courseware scholarship programs. If you are interested in administering your own LPQ/LPC scholarship award program click here for more information. The Foundation reserves the right to audit administering organizations' processes and retract the scholarships if improper actions are being taken.

    If you have further questions or would like to learn more about our scholarship programs, please: Email (Attention: Catherine Penizotto ) or Phone (704) 405-4404.