CHS Guidance Department

The Gallery Collection “Write-A-Greeting-Card” Scholarship Contest – Entries Due April 30, 2009

Scholarship Information

Accounting Scholarships

Listing of scholarship opportunities sponsored by a variety of professional accounting associations.

Armenian Student's Association of America

Nonprofit organization provides scholarships for Armenian-Americans. 

Black Excel: The College Help Network

A college admission and scholarship service for African-Americans. Black Excel services have expanded over the years to include an updated 350+ Scholarship List, and a personalized College Help Package. 

Federal Trade Commission

Avaricious folks prey on students with scholarship scams. Check this site to learn the danger signs. 

FastAid

Large, free online scholarship data base also financial aid information. 

Fast Web
Very comprehensive site contains a database of over 600,000 scholarships and is growing all the time. Complete a questionnaire and Fast Web will give you a list of scholarships for which you are eligible. Some scholarship applications are available on line. Fast Web will also notify you if additional scholarships are added to its data base that are a match for you.  

FRESH

Weekly newsletter of scholarship and financial aid information. Also has list of contest students can enter to win money for college. 

Higher Ed Net

FREE online service sponsored by ISAC which allows students to conveniently conduct a search for private scholarships and additional sources of financial aid. 

Hispanic Fund

This site lists scholarships for Hispanic students and universities who participate in the Hispanic Fund scholarship program. 

Hope Scholarship

Information about this new (1997) scholarship provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Local Scholarships

Scholarships solely for students at Carl Sandburg High School.

Scholarship 101
The GoCollege Site offers the lite version of this commercially produced college data base. Users can fill in the questionnaire and get leads on about 1/3 of the scholarships in this data base or pay $9 to access the entire scholarship data base.  

Scholar Aid

ScholarAid, Inc. was founded in January, 1998, by Ali M. Azhar and Robert J. Herrin. while they attended the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Azhar and Herrin created ScholarAid.com to help students find money for college after experiencing first hand the arduous task of obtaining funds to help offset the cost of college. ScholarAid.com developed a system for indexing scholarships at the national, state, and local level. This was the result of Azhar and Herrin's recognition that a large number of awards at the state and local level are overlooked by qualified potential applicants. What started out as a home-based project is now a nationally recognized service listing over 500,000 awards. 

The Scholarship Page

Produced by a single person who mounts scholarship information as she finds it. Not a large database, but a good one organized by categories. 

Scholarship Scams

Site run by the Federal Trade Commission that helps students and parents avoid unethical scholarship data base providers. 

Scholarship Resource Network

Daigle and Vierra, Inc., provider of the Scholarship Resource Network (SRN), has developed this site to provide an overview on financial aid resources available to students with a special focus on scholarship information. Includes a free scholarship search.

Student Services

A free scholarship data base organized by college major.

United Negro College Fund  Scholarships for African American students organized by location, academic major, and merit & need.