All Things College, Career, and Community (Part 132)
$50,000 Scholarship Opportunity (Undergraduate + Graduate Students Are Eligible)
Brave of Heart Scholarship
Deadline: April 21, 2025 3:00PM CT
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.
Eligibility
This application is for students attending college during the 2025-2026 academic year. If you will not be attending college during the 2025-2026 academic year click the Register Now button above to add your name to our email list to be notified when future applications open. If you will be attending, please verify you meet the eligibility requirements and click Check Eligibility below to apply.
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.
Child is defined as a biological, step- or legally adopted child who is age 26* and under as of the application deadline date. The child must be living in the frontline healthcare worker’s household or primarily supported by the frontline healthcare worker. If the child is enrolled in a graduate school program, they must be age 26 and under and may be financially dependent or independent to be eligible.
*The Brave of Heart Scholarships is available for children who first apply and receive an award by age 26. To continue receiving scholarship assistance beyond age 26, children must then continue to apply for the Brave of Heart Scholarship (uninterrupted) and maintain continuous enrollment in their program (uninterrupted), with the exception of summer vacation.
Frontline healthcare worker is defined as a person who lived in the United States at the time of death and worked or volunteered in or for a licensed hospital, medical center or clinic, nursing home, medical transport vehicle, triage center, or other licensed medical facility, provider, or setting, or who worked or volunteered as an emergency medical technician, ambulance technician or paramedic. The individual must have had the possibility of exposure to patients with COVID-19 while working or volunteering.
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.
Study abroad programs may be eligible courses of study if run through an educational institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory.
