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Reference Resources: Scholarships & Grants

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Scholarships & Grants

https://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/iris/

The IRIS database currently contains over 8,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (ERA) portals.

https://www.finaid.org/

The Financial Aid Information Page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid; includes a free searchable database of more than 180,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans.

https://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/scholarship/

This federal website provides valuable information to protect students in search of scholarship dollars.