Scholarships May Be
Available for You
The scholarship application portal
will be available as of December 1st, 2025.
We empower students and lifelong learners by providing scholarships, grants, and resources to help ensure everyone can reach their full potential. Review the application process below to be considered through our universal application process. We recommend completing this application on a computer using Google Chrome as your browser.
Application Process Details:
You do not need to complete a separate application for each scholarship.
Read the steps or view the video below for a tutorial on applying:
- To start your application, make an account using your personal email address. Do not use a school email address. Using a personal email address will prevent accessibility issues.
- Fill in all the fields of the universal application. This may take up to an hour to complete, so be sure to give yourself enough time. By completing this universal application, you can be matched to any scholarship for which you may be eligible.
- After you click on “submit application” at the bottom of the form, you’ll see a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Read through them, then scroll to the bottom of the page to click Continue. From there, you’ll arrive at a dashboard that shows scholarship-specific additional questions you must answer or references you must request in order to be considered for those specific scholarships. You will have the option to complete the additional materials OR to decline any of those scholarship opportunities. An application is complete once the follow-up questions are answered and submitted.
Frequently Asked Questions
The universal application is a single form that matches your answers to the scholarship(s) for which you qualify.
After submitting your application, you will be directed to your dashboard where you will find the scholarship(s) that you qualify for. Some of these scholarships may have additional questions or requests that must be filled out to be considered for the scholarship. You may fill out everything in that moment or you can log back in to complete your application. The deadline for submissions and all questions is 11:59 pm EST February 1.
As a user of the universal application portal, you may occasionally receive emails related to your request. Emails received from the system will come from the following email address: administrator@grantinterface.com.
If you are expecting emails and are not receiving them, it is likely that your email provider’s spam filter has caught the correspondence. Check your spam folder and add @grantinterface.com to your address book or contacts. This will ensure that you continue receiving email communication regarding your application.
Please click here to see a video for a step-by-step guide of how to access your dashboard.
No. Be sure to check your dashboard for scholarship–specific follow-up questions that must be completed. After completing any additional questions or requests, be sure to submit your application for review. If you do not submit your application after completing scholarship-specific questions, your application will not be considered.
Each scholarship has eligibility requirements. Based on your universal application responses and the scholarship criteria, your application did not match with any of the scholarship opportunities.
If you believe you met all the criteria for a specific scholarship, but did not get matched with that opportunity, you may request a review of your application by emailing scholarships@bccf.org or calling 610.685.2223. Requests for review must take place before the February 1st deadline. After review, possible next steps will be discussed.
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The universal application for scholarships must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on February 1. Applications for Berks’ Best must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on February 9. Applications for Berks County Transition Coordinating Council Mary Mazzoni Scholarship must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on March 1. Applications for Western Berks Ambulance Scholarship must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on December 31. In order to maintain a fair process, we cannot make any exceptions to the deadlines.
Applications cannot be submitted after 11:59 pm EST on February 1. In order to maintain a fair process, we cannot make exceptions.
Most Universal Application scholarship decisions are announced no later than April. Email notifications will be sent to all students regarding final decisions. Please check your junk/spam folder.
- Log into your dashboard and complete your scholarship acceptance form no later than May 31st. 2. Be sure to RSVP to the scholarship luncheon. The scholarship luncheon will be held on May 20, 2025. The deadline to RSVP to the scholarship luncheon is May 4th.
Please email scholarships@bccf.org with your updates.
Scholarship payments will be sent directly to the student’s school beginning July 1st. (Delays in sending out payments typically occur when we do not have completed scholarship acceptance forms from students.) It usually takes several weeks for schools to receive and process payments. Please contact your school directly to confirm receipt of your scholarship payment.
That scholarship application process opens on May 15 with a May 31 deadline. Check back then for more information.
Please send questions to scholarships@bccf.org.
We're here for you.
We wish you the best of luck as you continue your education. If you have any questions, you can email scholarships@bccf.org or call us at 610.685.2223 and ask for Kim Sheffer, Lifelong Learning Program Officer.
