The Muskegon Opportunity KnowHow2Go College Road Show is coming to a county high school near you!

College is closer than you think! visit http://knowhow2go.org/ for more information

Want Money for College?

During College Goal Sunday experts will walk parents and their students through the process of filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

The FAFSA form must be submitted in order to receive
financial aid for all colleges and universities. Those in attendance at College Goal Sunday will have a chance to win one of four scholarships worth a total of $2,500.

We’ll see you at Muskegon Community College’s campus library.  For more information visit micollegegoal.org and have a chance to win an IPOD or a Dell Laptop!

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Muskegon Opportunity is actively seeking donors.  Please distribute this Contribution Form to interested persons.  Thank You!

The Muskegon Opportunity team is busy working to make the program a reality.  Please view the documents below for a quick update.

Update of Activity

Launch Grid

Muskegon County has been designated as one of the state’s 10 Promise Zones, which will provide matching scholarship money to local students for a two-year college education.Promise Zones will be set up to capture one-half of the growth in education funds statewide. After two years, those funds, collected through property taxes and kept in an account similar to an escrow, will be distributed to the 10 qualifying communities to match private donations for college tuition. Click here to read the Muskegon Chronicle Article.

The Power of a Promise

Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo

Michelle Miller-Adams In the first comprehensive account of the Kalamazoo Promise, Michelle Miller-Adams addresses both the potential and challenges inherent in place-based universal scholarship programs and explains why this unprecedented experiment in education-based economic renewal is being emulated by scores of cities and towns around the nation. 
 

  SchoolSoup.com has more scholarships than any other source in existence and millions of scholarships are still available to your students.  But they have to hurry -  some scholarships have application deadlines of March 31, 2009, and many more have deadlines of April 30, 2009.

Remember:  

1) SchoolSoup has the largest scholarship database in existence ($32 BILLION in scholarships)

2) SchoolSoup has information on thousands of colleges and universities

3) SchoolSoup has information on hundreds of careers

4) Every $1,000 in scholarship funds can save students tens of thousandsof dollars in student loan interest

Help your students make their college education goals become a reality. Make sure they use SchoolSoup.com for their scholarship searches.  Andremember, SchoolSoup.com has scholarships for ALL students -  for2009 incoming freshmen, for working people trying to finish theircollege degree, and scholarships for graduate students.  

“Your Piece of the Pie” is a financial aid primer presented by the Enrollment Services Office of Muskegon Community College.  This web cast provides information on grants and loans, work study, and institutional and private scholarships.  Click on the image below to start the web cast.

 

 

Click on the image above to view the presentation.