noun the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties watchfulness, attention, care, caution, prudence, heed It is a new year, and many are on edge at what...

Welcome to the close of 2024, a hard year for so many. I’m so glad you’re here! Before I share the story I came here to tell, I’ll begin by retiring the...

  Look, there is a reason that in the days following a tumultuous election a host of horrible text blasts and threatening messages are being sent to high school and college students...

Would you look at this?! I’m waking up today speechless at what a community of determined young people, proud families, generous contributors, devoted educators, and fearless advocates can do. Though I’ve had...

Worldwide, certain types of rituals are common across cultures. Communities come together to announce births, mark passages to adulthood, recognize jobs well done, and mourn deaths. On Saturday, August 3rd in the...

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 here for...

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, we should...

Just six weeks into the application season and The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis has already found it necessary to issue three alerts to all students, especially those applying to college for...

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 form has...

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 class of...

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 celebrate Abraham...

The year has nearly ended, and these last days are a time of reflection for many. At The Scholarship Foundation, a beautiful story of the power of education ushers us into 2024...