Our Scholarships Program

During the 2024 scholarship cycle, we awarded $1,257,470 and 174 scholarships to local high school students, undergraduate, graduate students and adult learners from Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties.

Here is everything you need to know about our scholarships…for students, reviewers and donors (Opens PDF Document).

Our scholarship application for the 2025 scholarship cycle is available November 1, 2024 – January 14, 2025. We are looking forward to awarding more students in May of 2025.

Please begin gathering the items needed and indicated below for your application.

Fill out our online main application.
Get your most up-to-date transcript — official or unofficial.
Obtain a letter of recommendation from someone outside your family. This could be a letter from a teacher, a coach, a mentor, someone from your faith community, a boss, someone who you have volunteered with, etc.
Check out your eligibility for financial aid by completing the “Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).” You can do that at this official U.S. government website. The 2025-2026 FAFSA form will be available December 1st, 2024.

Special Note: We understand that the 2025-2026 FAFSA will not be available to fill out until December 1 2024. The Collaboratory Scholarship Application and all other materials must be submitted by January 14, 2025, but applicants will have until February 23, 2025 to submit the FAFSA Submission Summary for the 2025-2026 FAFSA by returning to their submitted application to upload.

Please abide by the established deadlines. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Whether we offer you a scholarship or not, you’ll learn a lot about yourself through the process. Be bold — apply.

The Collaboratory Scholarships Application for the 2025 scholarship cycle is currently closed. Award notifications should be expected in May 2025

If you are interested in becoming a scholarship reviewer, starting a scholarship fund or contributing to the general scholarship fund, contact us at scholarships@collaboratory.org or call 239-274-5900.

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Since no single organization can solve big social problems alone, Collaboratory is using its community leadership role to bring together local organizations and people from different sectors (like businesses, nonprofits, and government) to work on common goals. This collaboration aims to improve Southwest Florida and make it a better place to live, work, learn, and play.

The impact dashboard shows key regional goals that everyone is working toward, with the aim of solving social issues by 2040. It provides a point-in-time snapshot of progress by tracking important indicators that show how the community is changing over time. While these changes take time and there is often a delay between when the data is collected and becomes available, the dashboard helps us understand where we need to focus our efforts to achieve our shared goals.

In 2022, in concert with hundreds of individuals and organizations, we collectively identified the issues of housing and health as the next most-pressing areas of need. Based on that data, we’ve modeled FutureMakers Coalition, our nine-year initiative, to establish two new regional coalitions: Home and Health & Wellness.

If you would like to dive deeper into each of the coalitions, visit each coalition website.