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If you are seeking help with funding for your higher education, you should first contact the financial aid office at the college or university you plan to attend. For a list of colleges and universities with financial aid offices on the World Wide Web, see FinAid's directory of Financial Aid Office Web Pages. Direct financial assistance from your college, federal and state subsidized loans and grants, work-study programs, and support from local clubs, alumni, or religious groups are all possibilities. Some corporations offer scholarships or tuition-aid programs to their employees or to children of employees. Only after all of the above resources have been exhausted should you consider approaching foundations or other outside funders on your own.
You may want to start the process by taking the Foundation Center's interactive e-learning tutorial, Finding Foundation Support for Your Education, that guides students through the process of seeking financial support from foundations to pursue their studies. Here you will learn the basics about such topics as facts about foundations that provide financial aid for individuals, other sources beyond foundations, resources for the scholarship seeker, and how to apply. This fully interactive tutorial also includes several worksheets you can download and complete to assist in your search for funding and a self-test to reinforce what you've learned. Free registration and Macromedia Flash Player are required.
Foundation Center library collections are devoted to information about foundations and corporate grantmakers and their grants. Most foundation and corporate grants for scholarships and fellowships are awarded to educational institutions, which in turn disburse the funds, rather than directly to individuals.
Each of the Foundation Center's five libraries has a collection of materials of interest to individual grantseekers. The Foundation Center's information on grant programs for individuals is available in two formats and may be helpful in your search for foundation funding for your education. They are:
- Foundation Grants to Individuals, a print publication with a listing of more than 5,500 foundations that give to individuals. Updated biennially.
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, an online subscription-based database with more than 6,000 foundations giving to individuals. Updated quarterly.
Foundation Grants to Individuals, in both formats, includes information on grantmakers giving to individuals for research and education, for the arts and sciences, and even for personal, living and medical expenses. Information about how to apply for funding from each foundation is included. All Foundation Center libraries and Cooperating Collections provide free public access to the print version of Foundation Grants to Individuals, and some may have the Online version as well. These resource tools also may be purchased through the Marketplace.
Internet Resources
- Michigan State University Grants and Related Resources site, has a section on educational funding for individuals.
- FinAid: The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid offers a number of useful features, such as an explanation of financial aid forms, links to government funding sources, and financial aid offices. FinAid also offers FastWeb, a free scholarship search engine for students (free registration required) and EduPass: The Smart Student Guide to Studying in the USA which is especially for non-U.S. students.
- The Foundation Center's User Aids for Students and International Students.
- The Foundation Center's Youth in Philanthropy page has an alphabetical listing of Web-based scholarship resources detailing a wide variety of ways to find financial aid.
- Petersons.com's Financial Aid page provides help, guidance, and answers to frequently asked questions on financial aid, as well as information on organizations that offer private and federal loans. Peterson's Scholarship Search provides information on over 1.6 million scholarships, grants, and prizes worth more than $6 billion. (Free registration is required in order to use the database.)
- College Board includes a Scholarship Search where users can create a personal profile of educational level, talents, and background to search among 2,300 undergraduate scholarships, loans, internships, and other financial aid programs from non-college sources. There are also financial aid calculators where, for instance, you can approximate your Expected Family Contribution.
- The AFL-CIO posts a guide called Union-Sponsored Scholarships and Aid. Formerly a print publication, the guide is now available only on the Web, and is searchable by union and by state.
- The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, part of the State Department, provides information on and administers the Fulbright program for both U.S. and non-U.S. students.
- The Black Collegian Online offers a listing of information for fellowships, grants, and scholarships of interest to people of color.
- GrantsNet provides information about support for research training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.
- Division of Graduate Education offers financial assistance to graduates in the sciences. Program guidelines can be found in the publications section.
Print Resources
Every Foundation Center library has a small collection of materials of interest to individuals seeking scholarships or fellowships. One book you may wish to refer to is Financing a College Education (New York: Plenum Press, 1989) by Judith Margolin. Financing a College Education contains practical recommendations that cover not only private scholarships and fellowships but also government assistance, loans, and work-study programs.Click here for a bibliography of print resources on Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans that can be found in many public and college libraries. Scholarship directories generally provide contact information for each scholarship, as well as eligibility criteria, amount of funding and application deadlines.
For other books and articles you can try searching our Literature of the Nonprofit Sector Online (LNPS), the Center's bibliographic database. You could start searching on the subjects "Scholarships, fellowships and loans--directories" or "Travel and study abroad". Many of the books and articles found through LNPS can be located in Center Libraries and Cooperating Collections. It is best to call ahead to verify a specific library's holdings.
To learn more about foundation support for your education, attend our free one-hour class, Finding Foundation Support for Your Education.
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