Scholarships May Be Available for You
We empower students and lifelong learners by providing scholarships, grants, and resources to help to 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. We do not suggest trying to complete this application on your phone.
Application Process Details:
The universal application is a single form that matches your answers to the scholarship(s) for which you qualify.
Follow these steps:
- Create an account by clicking here using a 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
In response to the current delays in the FAFSA application process, students will not be required to provide FAFSA documentation as part of this year’s scholarship application process. All of the scholarship opportunities currently offered by the Community Foundation are available to students with no need for any documentation from FAFSA. For those scholarship applications which are based on financial need, applicants will be required to provide narrative information indicating their circumstances.
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 March 1.
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 the 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. After review, possible next steps will be discussed.
11:59 pm EST on March 1.
Applications cannot be submitted after 11:59 pm EST on March 1. In order to maintain a fair process, we cannot make exceptions.
Most scholarship decisions are announced no later than May. Notifications will be sent to all students regarding final decisions.
Log into your dashboard and complete your scholarship acceptance form. Be sure to RSVP to the scholarship luncheon. The scholarship luncheon is May 21. The deadline to RSVP to the scholarship luncheon is May 3.
Scholarship payments will be sent directly to the student’s school beginning in mid-July. (Delays in sending out payments typically occur when we do not have completed scholarship acceptance forms from students.) It usually takes at least two to three weeks for schools to receive and process payments.
Please email scholarships@bccf.org with your updates.
Please send questions to scholarships@bccf.org.
That scholarship application process opens on May 15 with a May 31 deadline. Check back then for more information.
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.
