Brave of Heart Scholarship

Scholarship Amount: Amount varies

Scholarship Background: The Brave of Heart Fund was founded in May 2020 by the Foundations of Cigna and New York Life and administered by E4E Relief. It was established to provide charitable grants and emotional support services to families of frontline healthcare workers, volunteers, and support staff whose lives were lost in the fight against COVID-19. The Brave of Heart Fund continues to honor the hard work and sacrifice of healthcare workers and their families via scholarship funding for their spouses, domestic partners, and children.The program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarship, tuition assistance, and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor, and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team. Awards for this scholarship are granted to eligible recipients without regard to creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin.

This application is for students attending the 2023-2024 academic year. The Brave of Heart Scholarship runs two application cycles. For the current application cycle, students may apply for a scholarship for the full 2023-24 academic year or just spring term 2024.

Criteria:
Applicants of the Brave of Heart Scholarship must:

• Be a child, spouse or domestic partner of a frontline healthcare worker who lost their life to a COVID-19-related cause.

• Plan to enroll full-time or part-time in an undergraduate or graduate program (graduate program must have a patient-facing medical major). See Awards Tab for definition of full-time and part-time.

• Plan to attend an accredited vocational-technical school, two- or four-year college or university, or graduate school.

• Have a minimum grade point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or its equivalent. Non-traditional students are encouraged to apply, and will be considered even if they do not have a recent GPA.

• Be a United States (U.S.) citizen or legal resident living in and attending an educational institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory.

Ineligible occupations include non-medical frontline workers, such as supermarket employees, delivery workers, ride-share drivers, funeral home staff, and police. Firefighters are also ineligible unless certified EMTs or paramedics. Other occupations may be ineligible and are evaluated at the sole discretion of the sponsor.