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By Teresa Steinkamp, Advising Director Beginning January 2022, The Scholarship Foundation hopes and plans to return to in-person advising. We are eager to meet with, and support, students in the class of...

The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis and The League of Student Advocates invites applications for the paid 2021-2022 Policy Fellowship Program.   Funded through the generous support of The Deaconess and Equifax Foundations, this hands-on,...

Thankfully, this year’s Scholarship Foundation Policy Fellows include two St. Louis University law students. Aja McCoy is a third-year and Sara Rutherford is a first-year. Together, they drafted a set of comments...

Please enjoy the latest issue of our newsletter: Opening Doors – Summer 2021. This issue includes a story about former students giving back, photos of 2021 graduates, and the introduction of four...

Registration is now open for a webinar with St. Louis Graduates and the Postsecondary Equity Network. Join us on Zoom to hear an analysis of the failures of Missouri’s scholarship programs and...

The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis is pleased to announce the appointment of Karina Arango as Advocacy Director. Arango recently earned her master’s in education at Loyola University of Chicago, where her...

The Scholarship Foundation will open a fall application cycle for renewal students who are seeking funding for the Spring 2022 semester. The application will open on September 15, 2021 with a deadline...

A report released today by The League of Student Advocates of The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis recommends replacing the four current state-sponsored scholarship programs with a single program that focuses scholarship...

Throughout Missouri, the COVID-19 Delta variant is spreading rapidly. In June, the Foundation issued an alert about colleges’ changing policies on masking and a reminder about vaccination. With the swift spread in...

The Scholarship Foundation has made an historic policy change to more closely align its interest-free loan repayment policy with its commitment to economic and racial equity. Beginning with the graduating class of...

Across Missouri, and around the country, colleges are announcing COVID-19 vaccination policies for students and faculty. In May, the Foundation issued the COVID-19 Vaccination Alert, encouraging students to research and decide about...

Though Scholarship Foundation staff dearly miss in-person advising in high schools, colleges, and community organizations, the offices remain closed to the public. All summer and fall workshops, appointments, and presentations will occur...