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Grant Wrangler
Useful for: teachers
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Grant Wrangler is a free grants listing service offered by Nimble Press. We help teachers find classroom grants for school funding.
Tags: grants
NYCharities.org
Useful for: orgs
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: NYCharities.org is a free, online contributions portal, dedicated to increasing charitable dollars from donors to New York causes. We provide information on over 60,000 charities in New York State, give donors a centralized site to learn about New York charities, and provide an easy, safe means to give time, money and talent. For nonprofits, we provide a unique way to promote programs, to educate new donors, and to extend fundraising reach in a way that supplements existing efforts.
Do Something
Useful for: students
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Youth grants available for anyone in the U.S. or Canada, 25 or under, who has a great idea for a community action project.
Charity Navigator
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: "guide to intelligent giving"
Tags: donation, funding, fundraising
Guidestar
Useful for: parents
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: GuideStar's mission is to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.
Tags: donation, fundraising
College Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships
Useful for: students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: This site offers a database of scholarships, searchable through a variety of categories.
Educaid
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Educaid’s Web site can help you plan for the cost of college and research your options. Sign up for their free monthly email newsletter about financial aid.
The Education Resource Institute
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: The Education Resources Institute (TERI) was founded in 1985 to provide education financing and information services to students and their families. As a private, not-for-profit organization, TERI recognizes that middle-income Americans are increasingly excluded from traditional financial aid programs. To help fill the financial aid gap, TERI offers loans based on creditworthiness, not income limitations. These loans are guaranteed and administered nationwide by TERI, and funds are made available through participating lenders.
Fast Aid
Useful for: parents,students
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: This is the home of the “world’s largest and oldest private sector scholarship database, the culmination of 20 years of scholarship research, and it is still being updated constantly. Best of all, the service is entirely free.
FastWeb
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: FastWeb offers free personalized searches of more than 600,000 scholarships totaling over $1 billion. The site also offers a college search tool that can match a student’s background with two- and four-year colleges across the country.
FinAid: The SmartStudent™ Guide to Financial Aid
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: FinAid provides comprehensive information on every aspect of financial aid and financing a college education. It offers a free scholarship search, financial aid calculators, glossary and bibliography.
Financial Aid Resource Center
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Join in this incredibly helpful and well-organized website’s discussions on financial aid concerns, or request a copy of the free newsletter.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: The FAFSA is used to apply for federal student financial aid,including grants, loans, and work-study. In addition, it is used by most states and schools to award non-federal student financial aid. This site, offered by the Department of Education, provides an online form to complete and submit for financial aid.
Geoscholarship.com
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: This site offers a free scholarship search engine, with loan, grant and other financial-aid information for students and their parents.
Guaranteed Scholarships
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: This site provides college and university scholarships available to admitted students.
Hispanic Scholarship.Com
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: This site is a resource center for financial aid and scholarships available to Hispanic students.
Nellie Mae
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Student loan financing and services available on-line.
Nerd World Financial Assistance
Useful for: students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: On the look out for quirky scholarships or want to communicate with other people who are quirky, too? This fun site pulls together some of the best scholarship search engines on the Web.
ROTC
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Win an ROTC Scholarship and you will not only have college paid for, you’ll also be guaranteed to have a job when you graduate! Here are links to the scholarship programs sponsored by the Air Force, the Army, and the Navy and Marine Corps. Each home page will provide you with the necessary application materials and a list of participating colleges and universities.
SallieMae
Useful for: parents,students
Type: Scholarships/Grants/Financial Support
Description: Although a for-profit organization, SallieMae is a highly reputable company with a user-friendly website. Here you can solicit general information via “Financial Aid 101.” Use the “calculators” to estimate your financial aid package and search for scholarships as well.