The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis recently received a grant from Deaconess Foundation designed to support postsecondary education advocacy efforts for low-income and first-generation students. Deaconess invested in a wide …
Scholarship Foundation Executive Director Faith Sandler Named Money Magazine’s 2014 MONEY Hero for Missouri
Executive Director Faith Sandler received the prestigious honor of being named Money Magazine’s 2014 MONEY Hero for the state of Missouri. The award, given to one outstanding leader in each …
ScholarShop 2014 A-List Winner
The Scholarship Foundation is very proud to announce that ScholarShop has been recognized by the readers of St. Louis Magazine as the recipient of the 2014 Reader’s Pick A-List Award for Best Vintage …
Support and Strengthen Access Missouri Funding
Recently, the Missouri Legislature boosted funding for education, including a $15 million increase specifically dedicated to Access Missouri, the state’s need-based student financial aid program. Now, with current and future revenue …
Band Aid Solutions for Student Debt
Teresa Steinkamp, the Foundation’s Supervisor for Student Support Services, wrote about the Foundation’s views on unmanageable student debt in an editorial published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. To access the …
Undocumented Students in Missouri Face Increase in Tuition Costs
A proposed amendment to Missouri’s budget would prohibit undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition at public colleges throughout the state. Despite graduating from the same high schools as their peers, …
