Who Can Apply:
- 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.
Submission:
- Birth certificate, marriage certificate or proof of student relationship to deceased healthcare worker
- Proof of occupation of deceased healthcare worker
- Death certificate of deceased healthcare worker
- 2024 IRS Tax Form 1040 – Students who are claimed as dependents must supply their parent(s) tax form
- Most recent Transcript (2024) of student applying, if applicable
Deadline: April 21, 2025
Amount: $50,000
Learn More: https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/braveofheart