Every gift opens a pathway.
Every student deserves a pathway to opportunity, and every family deserves access to support. Your gift will fund the Scholarship Success Accelerator and the gap fund, starting with students and families in Tampa Bay. The Foundation is not accepting gifts yet.
Six tracks. One pathway.
The Scholarship Success Accelerator walks students and families through each step between wanting college and being able to pay for it.
Scholarship readiness
Finding the scholarships that fit and getting organized to apply.
College planning
Choosing schools, timelines and next steps as a family.
Essay development
Helping students tell their own story clearly and well.
Leadership
Building the experience and confidence applications ask for.
Financial literacy
Understanding aid, awards and the real cost of college.
Career readiness
Connecting the degree to the work that comes after it.
The last thousand dollars.
When aid, scholarships and family contribution still fall short, the gap fund will cover a verified shortfall so a student stays enrolled.
A student reports a shortfall
After aid, scholarships and family contribution, what remains.
The school verifies it
A counselor confirms the figure against the financial aid package. Unverified requests never reach a funder.
A funder covers it
In full or in part. The remaining balance stays visible until it reaches zero.
The student stays enrolled
Funds route to the institution, not to an individual.
Five paths. One destination.
Five paths rise from different starting points and meet at the same place. That is the work your gift pays for.
Pick your door.
Designate a fund
Direct your gift to the Accelerator, the gap fund or an athletics campaign.
See the funds →Sponsor or partner
Schools, businesses and community organizations can sponsor the program or host it.
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