Over 160 Dayton Foundation Scholarships Via ScholarshipCONNECT

The Dayton Foundation, in cooperation with Learn to Earn Dayton, provides a scholarship and college readiness website to help students get to and through college. There are over 180 scholarships for students in the Greater Dayton area, and scholarships will be available for the 2024-25 school year which starts Fall 2024. Applications are open December through the first week of March and require several steps before an application can be completed.

Application Requirements:

• Students are required to create a password and enter an email address in order to log on to the Dayton Foundation’s ScholarshipCONNECT online application at https://www.daytonfoundation.org/apply.html
• All scholarships require that students file their FAFSAs at www.studentaid.gov and access their FAFSA Submission Summary by visiting www.studentaid.gov and detailing into the 2024-25 school year tab. The report appears as a PDF and must be uploaded into the ScholarshipCONNECT application system as a PDF as well.
• Scholarships require that students’ unofficial high school or college transcripts be uploaded as PDFs into the scholarship system
• Students must also submit a resume.
• Students will also be asked to enter the names and email addresses of 1-3 contacts (guidance counselors, professors/teachers, employers, mentors, etc.) who will write a letter of recommendation for them and submit that online.

You can read more information about the scholarships and complete an online application between December and March by clicking the “Visit” button below.

Questions or need assistance uploading documents? Please contact the Dayton Foundation directly at scholarships@daytonfoundation.org or at (937) 225-9955.