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Collegiate Partners
Collegiate Partners are more than 450 postsecondary institutions that agree to treat scholarships awarded through Scholarship America programs fairly.
To ensure that these scholarships help meet students' unmet financial needs, Collegiate Partners agree to distribute these scholarships without reducing a student's financial aid package. If there is no unmet need, Collegiate Partners will use up to $2,500 of a scholarship to reduce the self-help portion (loan, work-study, etc.) of a student's financial aid package.
Finally, some Collegiate Partners agree to match scholarships from Dollars for Scholars chapters and other Scholarship America programs, up to a specific dollar amount. All told, in fiscal year 2012, nearly 37,000 students attended Collegiate Partner institutions, bringing $64 million in scholarship awards to those schools.
To find Collegiate Partner institutions near you, search for Collegiate Partners or download our most recent Collegiate Partners Directory. To learn more about the program benefits—and to meet Jason, whose $500 scholarship turned into $4,000 worth of aid thanks to his attending a Matching Partner college—download the Collegiate Partners overview sheet.
If you represent a higher education institution interested in becoming a Collegiate Partner, contact the national Dollars for Scholars office.
The Dream Award
Scholarship America’s Dream Award is a new multi-year,
performance-based scholarship fund targeted toward completion.
These renewable, annually-increasing awards will be given to students selected from across the nation
who are entering their second year of education beyond high school.
The Scholarship Coach
Scholarship America's blog, The Scholarship Coach, appears weekly at USNews.com, featuring expert advice on all kinds of scholarship issues. Here on the site, we feature a new highlight from the blog every week, and you can also download a free Scholarship Coach e-book!
Inspired By You
Our 2012 Annual Report, Inspired By You, features the students who are inspired by their scholarship support—and the donors and friends who inspire them.Visit the online report to read their stories and hear from our President, Lauren Segal.