The Community Foundation of eastern Connecticut

Eligibility Criteria:

• Students apply for most scholarships through the General Application on the Scholarships Portal.
• After you have submitted the General Application, you may be asked to answer one or more questions to be eligible for certain scholarships.
• You must answer any additional question(s) in order to be considered for these scholarships.
• Foundation staff and volunteer committees review and assess each application based on the criteria of each of our 130+ scholarships.
• The Foundation prioritizes lower income students who are first in their families to go to college.
• We encourage you to review the scholarships available to residents of your town to get an idea of what you may be eligible for.

Note about Graduate Students: Very few CFECT scholarships are open to graduate students. We strongly recommend that prospective graduate student applicants review the list of scholarship opportunities carefully before beginning an application.

• All applicants are informed whether they have been selected to receive a scholarship by the end of June.
• Some scholarships are multi-year awards, but most are one-year, one-time awards.
• Single-year recipients are welcome to reapply for a scholarship each year. Scholarship awards are sent directly to the recipient’s educational institution, not to the recipient.