Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Scholarships

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, headquartered in Detroit, runs a single common scholarship application that considers students for a wide range of individually endowed donor funds at once, rather than requiring a separate application for each one. Eligibility, award amounts, and requirements (school, field of study, financial need, and more) vary by which underlying fund a student's answers match, so two applicants can end up eligible for very different sets of awards. The portal typically opens in the winter and closes in mid-March, with recipients notified later that summer.

Eligibility

DemographicsOpen to students attending high school within the foundation's seven-county service area -- Wayne (including Detroit), Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, Livingston, and St. Clair counties; the exact city, school, income, or field-of-study requirement beyond that depends on which underlying donor fund a student's application matches.

Applying

Award size depends on which of the foundation's individually endowed scholarship funds a student is matched to through the common application; no single published range covers all funds.