Single mothers are eligible for a variety of financial aid, including scholarships. Typically, scholarships are awarded to individuals to use for tuition and other eligible expenses, and require certain eligibility criteria to be met. Scholarships intended for single mothers may also require certain grade point averages, test scores, or income levels to be eligible.
Some sites where you can apply for single mom scholarships are: United Negro College Funds Scholarship Program, Charlotte W. Newcomb Scholarship for Mature Women.
Nursing Scholarships for Single Mothers is a nice scholarship. Another scholarship is Project Working Mom which is a scholarship for a working single mother.
There are a variety of scholarships for single mothers, some of which can be found here: http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/college-scholarships-grants-single-mothers.aspx The U.S. Dept of Education also has a comprehensive database of scholarships which lists some aid for single mothers here: http://studentaid2.ed.gov/getmoney/scholarship/v3browse.asp Fastweb.com also has a database of scholarships that can be searched for specific single mother scholarships.
No, there are no real scholarships for moms, but there are a lot of scams out there claiming to be real scholarships for mothers. However there are scholarships for women over the age of 35, so you might want to look into those. Another alternative is to get a relative to take care of the baby while you go to school or get a friend with their own child to help.
If you want to know colleges offer scholarships to single mothers, and you are a single mom returning to school to pursue your first college degree or career certification, and youre within a certain income range, youll almost certainly qualify for need-based federal education grants such as the Pell Grant.
You can begin to learn about single parent scholarships by visiting your local career center and then searching on fastweb.com and also upromise.com, great resources for scholarships.
I too am a single parent and have already researched single parent scholarships for myself. I found that the website scholarships.com has a great list of avialable scholarships.
Pl visit this link- http://singleparents.about.com/od/scholarships/bb/Scholarships.htm; You need to fill out the FAFSA Application for getting single parent scholarships, for which you should set up your Federal Pin Number through the Department of Education. You can search for scholarship programs in two ways- a list of national scholarships, and a state-by-state list of scholarships. Different States have their own scholarships for single parents- pl see the link http://oedb.org/scholarship/single-mothers, for example. There are several websites that offer this information. For example: http://singleparents.about.com/od/scholarships/tp/Search_Scholar.htm; http://oedb.org/scholarship/single-mothers; and http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/college-scholarships-grants-single-mothers.aspx. There are many more, and a simple Google search will bring up all the information you need.
Scholarships for single mothers are available pretty much everywhere. Local libraries generally have listings that can help you find the information you are interested in.
On Scholarships.com, there is a short list of scholarships for single mothers. http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/college-scholarships-and-grants-for-single-mothers/ This was about all I could find, but if those don't work for you, don't give up, there are also government grants, financial aid, and student loans if you are really desperate. Good luck with your college endeavors.
Single mothers can gain scholarships to study for a degree from many different sources. Some online sources for single mother scholarships include Scholarships4Moms and Kaplan.
Being a single parent is not going to qualify you for any scholarships. If you want to go back to school, look into financial aid, as they will give you more aid if you are a single parent.