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Financial Aid

Outside Funding: General Scholarships

Scholarships are listed alphabetically by the name of the sponsoring organization. Unless otherwise noted, please submit applications for funding directly to the sponsoring organization.

All-Ink.com Scholarship Program

Applicants for the All-Ink.com Scholarship must be U.S. citizens or legal residents who are enrolled in or plan to attend an accredited college or university. Students must be high school seniors, college students, or graduate students. To be considered, a student must have a 2.5 GPA or better, must complete an online application, and write two 50- to 200-word essays about what they hope to accomplish after they complete their college degree and about who their greatest influence has been.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation, Inc.

The Educational Advancement Foundation (EAF) is committed to the idea that academic excellence comes in many forms. The three ways in which the EAF carries out its mission are through academic scholarships, fellowships, and community assistance awards:

Academic scholarships are the primary means by which the EAF carries out its mission. The Foundation awards merit, financial need, and Youth Partners Accessing Capital (P.A.C.) scholarships.
EAF fellowships do not require enrollment in an academic institution. These awards help to improve the quality of life of others by funding research and projects with practical applications.
The EAF offers community assistance awards to assist individuals and organizations for a specific civic, educational, or human service program or project.

American Indian Graduate Center

The American Indian Graduate Center makes available fellowships and loans for service to American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate and graduate students.

Archaeological Institute of America

The Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to offer a number of scholarships and grants for students, publications, and the Archaeological Institute of America Societies. Scholarships and grants are open to members of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Chicana/Latina Foundation

The Chicana/Latina Scholarship Fund awards merit-based scholarships valued at $1,500.

disABLEDperson, Inc.

disABLEDperson, Inc. is excited to announce our fall 2009 nationally based scholarship competition for college students with disabilities! This competition begins on August 17, 2009, and ends on October 14, 2009, for the award of $750. Please visit the scholarship website for application procedures.

Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowships in Ethics 2010-11

Applications are invited for the Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowships in Ethics 2010-11 from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion. Deadline: Friday, November 13, 2009. Please visit the scholarship website for application procedures.

Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation

The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation Scholarship is for female graduate students with physical disabilities who are active in a local, state, or national disability organization—either in person or electronically—which is providing services and/or advocacy for people with disabilities. Scholarships range from $500 to $2,000.

Friends World Committee for Consultation - Section of the Americas

Offered by the Friends World Committee for Consultation's Section of the Americas, the Elizabeth Ann Bogert Fund supports the study and practice of Christian mysticism, with grants of up to $1,000 to selected individuals, groups or institutions. Please visit the website for application procedures.

The Fund for Theological Education (FTE)

The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers several fellowships for seminary or doctoral students:

FTE Congregational Fellowships

Congregational Fellowships provide financial aid to first-year seminarians through partnerships between the FTE and individual congregations.

Volunteers Exploring Vocation (VEV) Fellowships

VEV Fellowships provide financial assistance to first-year seminarians who are recent participants in faith-based volunteer programs through the Volunteers Exploring Vocation initiative.

FTE Ministry Fellowships

Ministry Fellowships provide financial and mentoring support to second-year seminarians to enrich their formation as ministerial leaders.

Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) Fellowship

The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) provides students, scholars and professionals with support to perform policy relevant field research, in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Masters Students, Pre-doctoral Students, Postdoctoral Students, and Professionals with advanced degrees are eligible for the IARO Fellowship. Applications must be completed and submitted (including all required supporting documents) by November 17, 2009. Applications and all supporting documents for 2010-2011 IARO Fellowship will only be accepted through the online application.

Justin Haruyama Scholarship Fund

The Justin Haruyama Scholarship Fund is offered to persons of Japanese ancestry who are accepted or enrolled full time in an accredited Protestant seminary in the United States and who are preparing for ministerial degrees. Applicants should intend to serve Japanese American congregations or other church-related ministries. Please visit the scholarship website for application procedures.

Henry Luce Foundation

The Henry Luce Foundation is offering an exchange program for graduate students studying religion between the United States and the Republic of Indonesia. In the fall of 2009, spring of 2010, and summer of 2010, at least 10 graduate students from the United States will be chosen to study at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS-Yogya) and the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Deadlines differ depending on the session that is chosen. Please visit either website to download an application, which contains further details and deadline information.

2009 Medical Software Essay Scholarship

Claricode Medical Software Architects is offering a scholarship open to all majors. To be eligible you must be a full-time student at a U.S. accredited college or university and 18+ years old at time of entry. All majors/concentrations are welcome to apply. Scholarships range from $1,000 to $2,500. The deadline is October 31, 2009. Please visit the scholarship website for further information.

Paulist Center

The Paulist Center offers a Lay Ministry Tuition Grant to support students in the Boston area who are pursuing graduate theological and pastoral study for ministry in the church. This grant is applied to tuition for first-level graduate theological and pastoral degree programs with grants up to $1,000 to active Roman Catholic lay students. Please visit the Paulist Center website for further information and application procedures.

Point Foundation

Point Foundation is the nation's largest scholarship granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) students of merit. Individuals enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program beginning or continuing in the fall of 2009 are eligible to apply.

Point Foundation provides financial support through multi-year scholarships, leadership training, mentoring, and hope to LGBT students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Roothbert Fund

The Roothbert Fund was created in 1958 by Albert and Toni Roothbert to help men and women in need of financial aid to further their education. The principal focus of the Fund is its scholarships program, through which it makes grants for undergraduate or graduate study at accredited colleges or universities. Scholarships may only be applied to study at an accredited institution based in the United States. The Fund seeks candidates who are "motivated by spiritual values," and works to foster fellowship among them.

The Roothbert Fund scholarships are open to all in the United States regardless of sex, age, color, nationality, or religious background. While the Fund does not emphasize any particular form of religious practice or worship, it seeks to provide support to persons motivated by spiritual values. The Fund has awarded grants to persons entering a wide range of careers. However, preference will be given to those who can satisfy high scholastic requirements and are considering careers in education. For more information, applicants should read with care the "Founders Prologue" in the "History and Mission" of the Fund.

As a rule, the Roothbert Fund does not make scholarship grants EXCEPT to applicants whose current or permanent address is located in one of the following states of the United States and applicants planning to move to one of such states prior to March 1 of the year in which the application is made: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, or North Carolina. It is probably counterproductive to submit an application if you live outside this area.

Grants are small (averaging $2,000-$3,000) and are meant to be supplementary. Aid is given for the ensuing school year.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans* is a two-year graduate fellowship that provides half-tuition, a $20,000 annual stipend, and co-curricular enrichment. The application deadline is November 1. More information, including application materials, can be found on the Paul & Daisy Soros website.

*The Soros Fellowship defines a New American as "an individual who (1) is a resident alien, i.e., holds a green card; (2) has been naturalized as a United States citizen; or (3) is the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens."

The Supreme Council, Freemasons

The Supreme Council, Freemasons, offers the Shepherd Scholarships of $1,500 per year toward tuition costs. Scholarships are for a maximum of four years, or upon earning a degree if that be sooner, and are offered by the Supreme Council each year to U.S. citizens only, who are studying in accredited schools within the United States. The number of scholarships awarded is dependent upon the earnings of the Shepherd Scholarship Fund. The objective of this scholarship is to aid worthy candidates in obtaining baccalaureate or graduate degrees in fields associated with service to country and generally perceived as benefiting the human race. Masonic background is not required.

USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships

The USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships program awards renewable scholarships to students with financial need. Full-time students are eligible for $1,500 awards, and half-time undergraduate students may qualify for $750 awards. Up to 50% of the scholarships will be targeted to students who, in addition to demonstrating financial need, are members of an ethnic-minority group or are physically disabled. Scholarship awards are based on past academic performance and future potential leadership participation in school and community activities, work experience, career and educational aspirations and goals.

Harvard Divinity School