FINANCIAL AID
What is Financial Aid?
Financial aid is money to help pay for college or career school. Grants, work-study, loans, and scholarships help make college or career school affordable. Financial aid can come from federal, state, school, and private sources to help you pay for college or career school.
Types of Aid
Grants - financial aid that doesn't have to be repaid
Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need and have not earned a bachelor's, graduate, or professional degree.
A Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) is a grant for undergraduate students with exceptional financial need. The FSEOG program is administered directly by the financial aid office at each participating school. Not all schools participate.
A TEACH Grant can help you pay for college if you plan to become a teacher in a high-need field in a low-income area. You’ll be required to teach for a certain length of time, so make sure you understand your obligation.
If your parent or guardian died as a result of military service in Iraq or Afghanistan, you may be eligible for an Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant.
Work Study - a work program through which you earn money to help you pay for school
Loans - borrowed money for college or career school; you must repay your loans, with interest
Scholarships - money that you receive for a school that does not need be paid back. There are thousands of scholarship, offered by schools, employers, individuals, private companies, nonprofits, communities, religious groups, and professional and social organizations.
Where can I find scholarships?
the financial aid office at a college or career school
a high school or TRIO counselor
the U.S. Department of Labor’s FREE scholarship search tool
your state grant agency
your library’s reference section
foundations, religious or community organizations, local businesses, or civic groups
organizations (including professional associations) related to your field of interest
ethnicity-based organizations
your employer or your parents’ employers
Helpful Websites
For more information on financial aid please visit studentaid.ed.gov
Scholarships
Posse Foundation
https://www.possefoundation.org/
The Posse Foundation identifies, recruits and trains individuals with extraordinary leadership potential. Posse Scholars receive full-tuition leadership scholarships from Posse’s partner college and universities.
UNFC
UNCF's mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practice in moving students to and through college.
QuestBridge
QuestBridge is a non-profit program that links students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some U.S. colleges and universities. QuestBridge provides a College Prep Scholarship for high school juniors and a National College Match program for high school seniors.
The Gates Scholarship
The Gates Scholarship is a highly selective, full scholarship for exceptional, Pell-eligible, minority, high school seniors. Starting in 2018, the scholarship will be awarded to 300 top student leaders each year with the intent of promoting their academic excellence through college graduation and providing them the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Los Angeles Harbor College Foundation
https://effectiveness.lahc.edu/pres/foundation/SitePages/Home.aspx
Established in 1972, the Los Angeles Harbor College Foundation has been a key partner with Los Angeles Harbor College to promote the programs of the college. Through its ability to provide support for special projects and funding for critical needs, the Los Angeles Harbor College Foundation has been a major contributor to LAHC's growth.
Los Angeles County Community Development Foundation
Los Angeles County community development foundation's (LACDF) mission is to end generational poverty in low-income housing throughout Los Angeles County.
Compton Community College Foundation
http://www.comptoncollegefoundation.org/
The Mission of the Compton Community College Foundation is to help ensure the academic development and excellence of students through financial and other forms of support; to establish scholarship programs and services that benefit our students, and to create fundraising initiatives that will support the programs and services of Compton College.