As the nation's leading guarantor of federal education loans, USA Funds^® supports billions of dollars in financial aid to college students and their parents. While focused on its traditional responsibilities as a guarantor, USA Funds also is taking a broader approach to improving access to education by supporting a full spectrum of initiatives and programs.

Providing financial support to low-income students
In addition to guaranteeing $25.8 billion in federal education loans to students and parents each year, USA Funds promotes and provides additional financial support to deserving low-income students.

• American Indian College Fund. 
• Arizona Silver Anniversary Scholarships™.
• Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund.
• Black History Makers of Tomorrow Scholarship.
• Disaster Relief Fund for Postsecondary Students.
• Families of Freedom.
• Grantmakers for Education.
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
• Indiana Foundation for Home Schooling Scholarships.
• Latino Community Grants.
• Scholarship Alert!
• Scholarship America.
• Scholarship Donations.
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
• United Negro College Fund.
• USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships^®.
• USA Funds Scholars.

Enhancing "early awareness" of higher learning and financial aid
USA Funds works with organizations in the higher-education community to help families realize that, with the proper academic and financial preparation, higher education is possible for every deserving student.

• Arizona Dollars for Scholars.
• Dean’s Future Scholars.
• Dollars for Scholars.
• Indiana Dollars for Scholars.
• Indiana Summit on Latinos in Higher Education.
• Louisiana Next.
• Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
• Mississippi Next.
• Next Indiana.
• Twenty-first Century Scholars.
• USA Funds Unlock the Future^®.
  

Ensuring financial and academic preparation for college
To help families prepare financially and academically for higher learning, USA Funds is supporting and developing several initiatives.

• AVID Program.
• Business-Higher Education Forum.
• California Community Colleges.
• Cathedral High School.
• Circle City Classic College Readiness Workshops.
• College 411 - Spanish version.
• College Answer.
• College Cost Calculator.
• College Goal Sunday.
• College Planning Conferences in Kansas.
• College Summit Arizona.
• Communities in Schools.
• Countdown to College publications.
• EduCat Mobile Classroom.
• Girls, Inc.
• Honolulu National College Fair.
• Hoosier Heroes.
• Hurricane-Affected Elementary Schools.
• Jobs for America's Graduates.
• Kansas Academic Decathlon.
• Indiana Black Expo Educational Initiatives for Youth.
• Learning Communities Coalition.
• Learn More Resource Center.
• Mississippi Parents and Kids College Fairs.
• Measuring Your Child’s Progress.
• PacFAA Financial-Aid Nights.
• PathfinderHS.
• Police Athletic League, Indianapolis chapter.
• "Questions About Going to College?" booklet.
• Riley Hospital's Child Life School Program.
• ScholarShop.
• Starfish Initiative.
• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s 21st Annual Recruitment and Retention Conference.
• Turner Middle-School Project.
• USA Funds Career and Education Hotline for Kansas.
• USA Parents.
• U.S. Dream Academy.
• Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.
  

Promoting student success in college and beyond
USA Funds provides tools for students to successfully finish their academic degrees with limited debt and the skills to handle their finances in the future.

• Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education.
• Best Practices in Student Retention.
• Building Collaborative Bridges Symposium.
• Excelencia in Education.
• Implementing Collaborative Strategies Symposium.
• Jump$tart Coalition.
• GRAD Magazine.
• Mississippi Retention Conference.
• Nevada System of Higher Education.
• Training, Inc.
• Tomás Rivera Policy Institute.
• Urban Mission Branch YMCA college tour.
• USA Funds Life Skills^®.
• USA Funds Life Skills for graduate and professional students.

As it has during the past 47 years, USA Funds will continue to explore innovative programs that permit students and their families to obtain the funding, information and preparation they need to realize their dreams of going to college.

Learn more about USA Funds' access and outreach efforts.