Essential resources for scholarship professionals.
Resource Bundle
Using 529s for Scholarships
This resource bundle offers key insights into awarding through 529 plans, including our research findings, FAQs, and practical how-tos. Use it to better understand the benefits of this approach and start crafting your own pilot program.
Slide Deck
Scholarship Displacement: Understanding Financial Aid & Avoiding Displacement
Use these customizable slides and their content with your students and families help them to navigate financial aid and avoid scholarship displacement.
Workbook
9 Characteristics of an Ideal Scholarship
This workbook starts with a framework for exceptional scholarships, then guides you through assessing your own. Use it to identify areas for growth and take action to create more impact!
Guide
Scholarship Success: 91 Bright Ideas to Test & Try!
Our beloved guide to best and emergent practices in the field. We’ve crowd-sourced tons ideas from scholarship providers to inspire you. There’s something in here for every provider!
Sample
Scholarship Logic Model & Theory of Change
Use this resource to outline your program’s inputs, activities, outputs, and long-term impacts, in order to visualize how scholarships can empower students.
Tip Sheet
Selecting Scholarship Software
Selecting the right software for your scholarship program can significantly improve efficiency, streamline processes, and enhance impact. This tip sheet offers important questions to consider and steps to take to identify right tool for your program.
Workbook
Donor Development for Scholarships
Want to improve the ways you and your team create new scholarship opportunities or funds? This resource is built to do just that, and includes practical worksheets, question prompts, and more to help improve the scholarship development process and prioritize students in doing so.
Guide
Assessing Students’ Financial Need
Want recommendations for how to assess applicants’ and scholars’ financial need? This guide is chock-full of ideas on how to adapt application forms, selection processes, committee involvement, and more, to best understand a student or family’s financial circumstances.