Recently, our staff took 90 minutes for a “good news only” staff meeting amidst an application cycle harder than any other we have experienced (and if you’re wondering why, click …
An Anxious April 15
This is all wrong. In any other year except worldwide pandemic in 2020, today would have been our application deadline at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. On this day, …
Nonprofit and Not Playing
This year, the new and “simplified” Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a nightmare. Though laudable in concept, a promised overhaul of the method and shortening of the …
Proof That It’s Possible
This graph, excerpted from The Scholarship Foundation 2023 Equity Report, depicts total balances graduates of that year owed to The Scholarship Foundation. Starting with students first applying in 2015 (graduating …
Too Many Tears
By Trent Ball and Faith Sandler We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. -James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing (authored in 1900 to …
