Financial Resources for Women

Today, more women are making waves in business, tech, arts, and education.

Financial aid like scholarships and grants have helped make it possible.

In this list, find over 150 financial resources just for women. This includes scholarships, grants, internships, fellowships, and more.

Scholarships for Women

Universities, nonprofits, and companies offer scholarships to women, including those for specific disciplines and underserved groups.

Check the list below to take your education to the next level.

• All Women in Media: The AWM Foundation's partnership with the Ford Motor Company Fund supports scholarships for two female students based on essays written on a suggested topic.
  
• Alpha Chi Omega: The Alpha Chi Omega Foundation offers scholarships and grants each year to a variety of members, chapters and organizations.
  
• Washington, DC Alumnae Panhellenic Association: Washington, DC Alumnae Panhellenic Association presents a scholarship to young women who have demonstrated their outstanding commitment to NPC's core values of friendship, leadership, service, knowledge, integrity, and community in their daily lives.
  
• American Physical Society: APS/IBM Internship for Undergraduate Women is granted for female students, including all students who present or identify as women and/or trans women with sophomore or junior standing at a U.S. college or university.
  
• Community Foundation of Northern Illinois: Carolyn Wones Recruitment Grant provide educational resources for women, and to promote the professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
  
• Kappa Kappa Gamma: Kappa Kappa Gamma awards scholarships for undergraduate and graduate Kappas.
  
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.: Stork's Nest Scholarship is awarded for high school seniors or student with a GED who has completed the Storks Nest Education Program through Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
  
• Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation: The Foundation's scholarship program awards annual grants for the education of deserving female students with financial need.
  
• Women's Century Club: Woman's Century Club has provided annual scholarship support to deserving women through local colleges and universities.
  
• Fresh Start Scholarship Foundation: The Fresh Start Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships to women seeking to earn a college degree based on need, academic record and motivation to succeed.
  
• Women's Empowerment: The Women's Empowerment Scholarship serves to empower females by encouraging and enabling them to pursue higher education.
  
• Zonta International: Young Women in Public Affairs Scholarship is awarded for young women, ages 16-19, who demonstrate superior leadership skills and a commitment to public service and civic causes, and encourages them to continue their participation in public and political life.
  
• Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: The 1,000 Dreams Scholarship provides one-time educational assistance for currently enrolled high school or college-aged women throughout the United States.
  
• Soroptimist: Soroptimist's Live Your Dream Awards program is a unique education award for women who provide the primary financial support for their families.

Scholarships by Field

• Association of Women Contractors: AWCMN provides scholarships for female students currently enrolled in construction-related fields at a four-year college; two-year community or technical college, or a construction trade school.
  
• Community Foundation of Northern Illinois: Beta Gamma Recruitment Grant provide educational resources to female graduating seniors who are planning to enter the teaching profession.
  
• ConnectHER Film Festival: Students enter their films in the acclaimed annual ConnectHER Film Festival for a chance to win scholarship awards and attend the ConnectHER Red Carpet Awards Event.
  
• Financial Women of San Francisco: The FWSF Scholarship Fund provides graduate and undergraduate scholarships to San Francisco Bay Area women pursuing careers in finance and financial services.
  
• American Statistical Association: The Cox Scholarship is awarded for woman in or entering the early stages of graduate training (MS or PhD) and one to a woman in a more advanced stage of training (statistic related major).
  
• Heinlein Society: Heinlein Society provides Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship for female candidate majoring in engineering, math, or biological or physical sciences.
  
• Zonta International: Jane M. Klausman (JMK) Women in Business Scholarship program helps women pursue undergraduate and master's degrees in business management.
  
• Kris Paper Legacy: The Kris Paper Legacy Scholarship for Women in Technology provides an annual scholarship to a graduating female high school senior or returning female college student who intends to further their education at a two-year or four-year college, university, vocational or technical school who share Kris Paper's love of technology and will be seeking a degree in a technology related field.
  
• SIOR Foundation: Mildred C. Hanson, SIOR Memorial Fund provides scholarships for qualified female students in obtaining an education that will lead them into productive careers in the commercial real estate industry.
  
• ND Space Grant Consortium: Lillian Goettler Space Grant Award is offered for a female student at North Dakota State University who will be involved in a research project of NASA relevance.
  
• ND Space Grant Consortium: Pearl I. Young Space Grant Award is granted for female student at the University of North Dakota who will be involved in a research project of NASA relevance.
  
• The National Willa Cather Center: Norma Ross Walter Scholarship provides financial assistance to female graduates of Nebraska high schools who plan to enroll as English majors in accredited colleges or universities.
  
• Santa Rosa 99s: Each year the Santa Rosa chapter of the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots awards a scholarship to a local woman pilot.
  
• Society of Women Engineers: Society of Women Engineers - Lehigh Valley Scholarship Program is granted for female graduating high school students who will pursue ABET accredited engineering program and resides in over 20 counties in Pennsylvania.
  
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation: The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation Scholarship for the Advancement of Women in Sports & Entertainment is intended for eligible college undergraduate and graduate school women who desire to work and contribute their efforts within the field.
  
• The Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting: The Laurels Fund provides scholarships to female students who are pursuing advanced degrees in Accounting.
  
• Women in Federation Law Enforcement: WIFLE scholarships are awarded based on a student's academic potential, achievement, and commitment to serving communities in the field of law enforcement.
  
• Zonta International: Zonta International Women in Information Technology Scholarship is awarded for women to pursue education, career opportunities and leadership roles in information technology.
  
• Association for Women in Mathematics: Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize is awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics.
  
• Society of Physics Students: The Kirsten R. Lorentzen Award is an AWIS Educational Foundation program for female college sophomores and juniors studying physics, including space physics and geophysics, or geoscience.
  
• Society of Physics Students National: SPS National provides Aysen Tunca Memorial Scholarship for a female undergraduate student majoring in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field, excelling in her studies, and demonstrating significant potential.
  
• BHW Group: BHW Group offers a scholarship for women who are pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree and are majoring in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
  
• ESA Foundation: ESA Foundation established a scholarship fund providing support for women and minority students across the United States who pursue STEAM related fields.
  
• Palantir Technologies: Palantir offers scholarships to support students from communities historically underrepresented in technology.
  
• NANBPWC: Dr. Julianne Malveaux Scholarship is awarded for African American female students majoring in journalism, economic or related field (public policy, creative writing, etc.).
  
• NANBPWC: Sherelle T. and Timothy T. Carper III Scholarship is awarded for single mother students (age 18-30) majoring in STEM, Aviation, Political Science, Communications, or Business Management related field.
  
• ACS Chemistry for Life: Priscilla Carney Jones Scholarship provides scholarships for female undergraduate majors in chemistry or related disciplines who are beginning their junior or senior years of study.
  
• Science Ambassador Scholarship: Science Ambassador Scholarship is a full–tuition scholarship for a woman in science, technology, engineering, or math.
  
• ABC Wildlife: ABC Wildlife provides Women in STEM Scholarship for undergraduate and graduate female students who continue their study in STEM related fields.
  
• Girls Who STEM: Girls in STEM (GIS) Scholarship Award is offered for students enrolled in any STEM related undergraduate programs at an accredited university.
  
• Center for Women In Technology: CWIT provides merit-based scholarship program for talented undergraduates majoring in computer science, information systems, business technology administration (with a technical focus), computer engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical/biochemical/environmental engineering, or a related program at UMBC.
  
• MPower Financing: MPower Financing provides MPOWER Women in STEM Scholarship for female international/DACA students who are currently enrolled or accepted to study full-time in a STEM degree program at a program MPOWER supports in the United States or Canada.
  
• Loadview: Dotcom-Monitor provides Women in Computing Scholarship for female undergraduate students who are pursuing careers in computing.
  
• Payscale: PayScale's Women In STEM Scholarship is granted for young women who enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
  
• Avomeen: Avomeen provides Women in STEM Scholarships for undergraduate female students who pursue STEM related field education.
  
• PG&E: PG&E W-STEM Network Group provides scholarships for female students who pursue non-medical science, technology, engineering, mathematics, business, public policy.
  
• Western Digital: Western Digital provides scholarships for underrepresented and underprivileged students who pursue STEM education, including female students.
  
• SNC Lavalin: Atkins Women and Minorities STEM Scholarship is awarded for students who pursue baccalaureate degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
  
• CNY STEM: CNY STEM provides three scholarships of $5,000 per year for 4 years (two scholarships will be focused on minority and female applicants) to undergraduate students who will study Computer Science, Computer or Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
  
• Snapology: Snapology awards scholarships to female college-bound high school seniors based on demonstrated academic achievement, financial need, and an expressed interest in pursuing STEM education.
  
• National Society of Professional Engineers: NSPE provides Auxiliary Legacy Scholarship for female undergraduate entering or continuing their junior year of a four-year ABET-accredited engineering program.

Scholarships by Group

• Albuquerque Foundation: Rae Lee Siporin Scholarship for Women will make awards to those women who are continuing or returning to college/university for their first undergraduate degree and need financial assistance for their senior year of school.
  
• Central California Asian Pacific Women: Central California Asian Pacific Women offers scholarships every year to support the educational pursuits of Asian and Pacific Islander young women.
  
• Daughters of Cincinnati: Scholarship is awarded to daughters of career commissioned officers in the United States armed services.
  
• Next Day Animations: Illustrating Awesomeness Scholarship is a scholarship opportunity for young women or gender non-conforming individuals of color who are actively working to change the world.
  
• Rankin Foundation: Jeannette Rankin Women's Scholarship Fund (JRF) provides scholarships and support for low-income women ages thirty-five and older across the US to build better lives through post-secondary education.
  
• Lifetime Adoption Foundation: Lifetime Adoption Foundation offer educational scholarships in deep appreciation to birth mothers who have chosen adoption for their children.
  
• Red Thread Women: Red Thread Scholarship Program is eligible for women of an international background, including foreign students, immigrants, or first-generation Americans, who are first year entrants to a U.S. college or university program.
  
• Stonewall Foundation: The Traub-Dicker Rainbow Scholarship was established by Peggy Traub and Phyllis Dicker to encourage and support lesbian women in their pursuit of higher education.
  
• Army Women's Foundation: The Army Women's Foundation Legacy Scholarship Program provides grants to women soldiers, past and present, and their lineal descendants to help them attain their educational goals.
  
• NANBPWC: The Dr. Blanca Moore-Velez Woman of Substance Scholarship is awarded for African American female age 35+ students.
  
• Chicana Latina Foundation: Chicana Latina Foundation award merit-based scholarships valued at $1500 to 30-40 powerful Latina students each year.

Regional Scholarships

• Community Foundation of Northern Illinois: Amber Huber Memorial Scholarship is a scholarship for graduating senior female from Byron High School.
  
• ANSWER Scholarship: ANSWER Scholarship provide college scholarships, mentoring and professional development to moms in Mecklenburg and eight surrounding counties in the Carolinas.
  
• Grand Rapids Community Foundation: Hackett Family Scholarship is awarded for senior at or has graduated from any Grand Rapids Public high school and is an undergraduate attending an accredited college/university or skilled trade school of their choice (preference will be given to women of color).
  
• Grand Rapids Community Foundation: Lavina Laible Scholarship is awarded for female student entering the 3rd year or above of undergraduate studies at University of Michigan.
  
• Grand Rapids Community Foundation: U-M Alumnae Club (University of Michigan) Scholarships is awarded for female undergraduate or graduate level student entering the 2nd year or above at the University of Michigan.
  
• Junior League of Baltimore: Young Woman Leadership Scholarship awards $2,000 to a Maryland female graduating senior who has performed outstanding leadership during her high school years.
  
• Linly Heflin Foundation: Linly Heflin funds scholarships for Alabama women attending Alabama colleges and universities.
  
• YWCA Greater Cincinnati: The YWCA Mamie Earl Sells Scholarship provides financial assistance and support to an outstanding Black female Greater Cincinnati high school senior entering a post-secondary institution.
  
• NDP Women's Caucus: Inspiring Women Scholarship will be awarded to three women; one from each congressional district in Nebraska.
  
• Professional Business Women of California: PBWC honor female, California high school seniors with academic scholarships.
  
• Society of Professional Women in Petroleum: SPWP Scholarship is granted for young women pursuing an education at Texas colleges and universities.
  
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation: The Marie A. Calderilla Scholarship is awarded for female students currently enrolled or planning to attend a college within the San Mateo County Community College District.

Grants for Women

Similar to scholarships, these grants are a source of gift aid to help fund your passion - whether it be in tech, education, business, or the arts.

Be sure to double-check the requirements for the grant you're interested in before sending in your application.

Arts

• New York Foundation for the Arts: The NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre provides grants to encourage and support the creation of digital, film, music, television, and live theatre content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women.
  
• Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.: Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. provides grants ($500 - $1500) to individual feminist women in the arts who are citizens with primary residence in the US and Canada.
  
• Leeway Foundation: Art and Change Grants and the Leeway Transformation Awards fund women, trans, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
  
• The Bennett Prize: The Bennett Prize awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings.
  
• Asian Women Giving Circle: Asian Women Giving Circle fund projects led by Asian American women artists and community groups.

Tech

• BBG Ventures: BBG Ventures is an early stage fund focused on consumer tech startups with a female founder.
  
• Jumpstart: Jumpstart Focus Fund invests seed capital in tech-based companies led by female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color throughout Ohio.
  
• Merian Ventures: Merian Ventures invest in women founded and co-founded innovation in cyber, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and consumer-facing companies.
  
• Halogen Ventures: Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.
  
• Angel Academe: Angel Academe invest in women-founded tech businesses.

Education

• AWE Funds: AWE Funds provides capital for women owned, led, or influenced businesses.
  
• Patrina Foundation: Patrina Foundation offers grants for educational, cultural, and social service organizations which promote academic, artistic, athletic, job skills, life skills, and/or leadership abilities of girls and women.
  
• AAUW: Career Development Grants provide funding to women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance or change careers or re-enter the workforce in education, health and medical sciences, or social sciences.

Business

• New York State: Minority- and Women-Owned Business (MWBE) Development & Lending Program provide financial assistance to minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE) in the state, as well as to projects and programs that assist the development of entrepreneurship among minority persons and women in New York State.
  
• US Small Business Administration: The SBA helps women entrepreneurs launch new businesses by providing training and funding opportunities specifically for women.
  
• SoGal: SoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, bluemercury, twelveNYC, and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.
  
• Shea Moisture Fund: The $1Million Fund is a grant that intends to show the power of small/black-owned businesses to help communities, while also hoping to minimize the financial disruptions that many are experiencing from the current global crisis.
  
• Black Girl Ventures: Black Girl Ventures fund tech-enabled revenue-generating Black/Brown woman-identifying founders.
  
• IFundWomen: IFundWomen is the go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses and the people who want to support them with access to capital, coaching, and connections.
  
• Amber Grants for Women: WomensNet provides at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money for entrepreneur women.
  
• Moms as Entrepreneurs: Moms as Entrepreneurs is an organization that provides fund for mom-owned businesses in all industries.
  
• Tory Burch Foundation: The Tory Burch Foundation Capital Program powered by Bank of America provides women entrepreneurs in the United States the opportunity to access affordable loans through Community Lenders.
  
• Gaingels: Gaingels seeks top investment returns by co-investing with the best venture capital firms, and seeks to influence social change through business by investing in the best companies with LGBT+ leadership.
  
• Pipeline Angels: Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for trans women, cis women, nonbinary, two-spirit, agender, and gender-nonconforming founders.
  
• Amplify Her Ventures: Amplifyher is a Venture Capital firm that invests in visionary founders with women in decision-making roles.
  
• Female Founded Club: Female Founded Club is an organization where female founders can connect with top investors who actively looking to fund the best female founded startups.
  
• Female Founders Fund: Female Founders Fund invest in women building category defining businesses.
  
• Golden Seeds: Golden Seeds gives invesments for women-led businesses.
  
• Project Entrepreneur: The Project Entrepreneur Investment Readiness Program accelerates the growth of female-founded companies by broadening investment acumen, building bridges to capital, and investing in ecosystems that advance founders' growth and empower our most innovative entrepreneurs.
  
• Prosper Women Entrepreneur: Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator is a for-profit organization focused on increasing women entrepreneurs' access to growth capital and the number of women investing in early stage capital markets.
  
• GingerBread Capital: GingerBread Capital invest in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses.
  
• Portfolia: Portfolia provides investment fund designed for women, backing innovative companies for returns and impacts.
  
• Rethink Impact: Rethink Impact is a venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.
  
• Women's Funding Network: The Women's Funding Network leads the creation of collaborative funds to deploy funding, resources and support directly to members to expand organizational capacity and strengthen interconnectivity of the network's infrastructure.
  
• The Jump Fund: The Jump Fund is an organization that activate women's capital, and to provide access to capital for women entrepreneurs in the Southeast.
  
• Broadway Angels: Broadway Angels invests in the best entrepreneurs and companies while showcasing the top women investors in venture capital and technology.
  
• Cartier's Womens Initiative: The Cartier Women's Initiative is an annual international entrepreneurship programme that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs.
  
• MEDA San Francisco: The San Francisco Women's Entrepreneurship Fund is a joint project of MEDA in collaboration with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) of the Mayor's office that provides mini-grants of up to $5,000 to San Francisco women-owned small businesses for projects and upgrades that will have a transformative impact on the business' ability to grow.

Internships and Fellowships for Women

Internships and fellowships present a valuable opportunity to take your career to the next level.

While internships are usually focused on providing professional experience, most fellowships involve academic research. Find one that's perfect for you in the list below.

Internships

• Women For Women: Women For Women encourages students to apply spring, summer, or fall internships.
  
• Women's Congressional Policy Institute: WCPI offers paid internships for undergraduate students and those who have graduated within the past 6 months.
  
• National Women's Law Center: NWLC offers a year-round academic credit internship program and a paid summer internship program.
  
• National Women's Health Network: The Helen Rodriguez-Trias Women's Health Internship Program seeks to develop the next generation of women's health activists by providing interns with hands-on experience in women's health policy and advocacy, membership/fundraising, and communications.
  
• Michigan Council of Women in Technology: MCWT provides internship opportunity for female undergraduate students enrolled in Michigan university.
  
• National Organization for Women New York City: NOWYC provides internship offer internships for the spring, fall and summer semesters with the opportunity to participate directly in programming, fundraising and organizing efforts.
  
• She's the First: She's the First provides internship opportunities in the areas of communications, development, and programming.
  
• Enlightened Women: NeW provides internships in the fall, spring and summer with stipends (full-time and part-time).
  
• Girls Who Invest: Girls Who Invest offers Summer Intensive Program combines four weeks of academic instruction followed by six weeks of real-world experience through a paid internship at a leading investment firm.
  
• Patagonia: Patagonia offers college students 12-week internships in product development to finance to material sciences to marketing, and differ every year.
  
• Center for American Archeology (CAA), Kampsville, IL: Center for American Archeology (CAA) offers Women in Archeology Internship positions or women undergraduates, graduate students, and archaeologists in the early stages of their careers with at least six weeks of field and laboratory experience.
  
• Women Employed: Pattis Family Foundation Summer Leadership Program is an internship program for postsecondary education/training students.
  
• Magge Womens: The College Summer Internship Program at Magee-Womens Research Institute provides students with the opportunity to participate in basic, translational, or clinical scientific research with the goal of interesting students in biomedical research as a potential career.
  
• Women's Foreign Policy Group: The WFPG offers two different internship opportunities each semester, one focused on program planning and one focused on communications.
  
• Institute for Women's Policy Research: IWPR offers internships in three areas: Research, Communications, and Accounting & Operations.
  
• Girls Empowerment Network: Girls Emporwement Network provides internship opportunities that last one semester (fall, spring or summer) and are anywhere from 10-40 hours/week.

Fellowships

• Forte Foundation: Forté Fellowships awards female full-time students who pursue MBA degree.
  
• Graduate Women in Science: The Graduate Women In Science (GWIS) National Fellowship Program is awarded for women who pursue academic and professional careers in natural and social sciences.
  
• Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation: Countway Library Fellowship is a grant to cover travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period by women in medicine.
  
• International Women's Media Foundation: The Neuffer Fellowship is designed for staff or freelance women journalists with at least three years of professional experience in journalism working in print, broadcast, or digital media.
  
• Zonta International: Amelia Earhart Fellowship is awarded annually to up to 35 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences.
  
• AAUW: AAUW Dissertation Fellowships is awarded for scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering and math fields or those researching gender issues.
  
• AAUW: Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited U.S. institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low.
  
• Running Start: Congressional Fellowship is a semester-long fellowship on Capitol Hill with congresswomen and weekly trainings on how to run for office sponsored by Walmart.
  
• American Geosciences: The Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship is available for female students pursuing a Master's or Doctoral degree at an accredited institution of higher education in a recognized geoscience program.
  
• Microsoft: The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant provides a research funding opportunity for doctoral students who are underrepresented in the field of computing.
  
• L'Oreal: The L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship program awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each for their contributions in STEM fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations.
  
• 500 Women Scientists: Fellowship for the Future is awarded to women of color who are leading community-based STEMM projects that align with the mission of 500 Women Scientists and are focused on increasing equity, inclusion, and/or social justice in STEMM.
  
• The Woodrow Wilson Foundation: The WW Women's Studies Fellowships support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.
  
• American Mathematical Society: The Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars is awarded to mid-career woman, based at a U.S. academic institution, with a well-established research record in a core area of mathematics.
  
• Carol Emmott Fellowship: The Carol Emmott Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for exceptional women leaders in health to accelerate their careers and make a lasting impact.
  
• Soroptimist: Soroptimist International of Los Angeles Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study is awarded for female students in a graduate degree program at an accredited institution of higher education in Los Angeles County.
  
• IGNITE National: IGNITE Fellows is a fellowship program for women in or just out of college who want to jump-start their public service careers.
  
• Open Hands Initiative: Fellowship for Young Women Entrepreneurs is a program for young female entrepreneurs encompassed entrepreneurial training, mentoring, team projects, and a pitch competition with more than $150,000 in grant prizes.

Bottom Line

Whether you aspire to be a scientist, artist, entrepreneur or academic, we're hoping this list of resources can help you take the next step to fuel your passion and thrive. Our future looks bright in your hands - best of luck!