Financial Assistance

First-generation high school and college students often have limited resources and significant family responsibilities. We provide financial assistance to help students commit the time needed to come together and succeed as a community.

Today more than ever, even students from low-income families who receive full financial aid for college attendance face substantial economic challenges. Students need additional support to cover transportation, food, books, computer, and technology costs. For many low-income students, paying for the many non-tuition costs associated with college means more and more hours of work. This work, in turn, makes college success more difficult.

To meet all these challenges, More Than Bootstraps provides a monthly stipend, a computer, as well as access to emergency resources for those events that can easily derail students. Most students in More Than Bootstraps will likely still work part-time and/or participate in work study, but the stipend of More Than Bootstraps provides critical additional support to free students from some of that labor so that they have the time and space to come together and succeed as a community.