Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund - Scholarship America
Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund
Deadline: October 1; December 1; May 1; Se
To provide education assistance for post-secondary study to children and spouses of those killed or permanently disabled as a result of terrorist attacks. Qualifications: Applicants must be dependent children, spouses, or domestic partners of 9/11 victims, including airplane crew and passengers, world Trade Center and Pentagon workers and visitors; and relief workers, including firefighters, emergency medical personnel, and law enforcement personnel, who were involved in the rescue efforts; parents and siblings of victims are not eligible unless they can provide documentation of financial dependence on the victim; only accepting registrations for victims who passed away on the day of September 11, 2001; children who enroll in a program of postsecondary study by age 24. (Those children who turn 24 during their course of study must then continue their program of study uninterrupted, with the exception of summer vacations, in order to continue receiving scholarship assistance.); permanently disabled individuals must be deemed disabled by the social security administration and have successfully completed the Families of Freedom registration process prior to September 30, nine years before; children of disabled registrants must have been born after September 11, twenty four years before but prior to September 30, seventeen years before in order to be eligible; may be used to attend an accredited vocational-technical school, trade school, two-year college, four-year college, or university located in the United States; applicants must be postsecondary study; students who enroll in an undergraduate program of study at an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or vocational-technical school; funding for the graduate program will end with the close of the five years before - four years before academic year. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on financial need. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online application form. Focus: General studies/Field of study not specified.