Scholarships

Affordable Early Learning Initiative

There is one goal for our HAND-UP tuition assistance scholarship program:  To help parents in Sumter, Lake, and Marion Counties in Florida to provide quality early learning for their children from birth to 3- to 4 years of age until they qualify for federally-funded VPK.  To do this, we partner with quality early learning centers in these three counties and provide a HAND-UP to those hard-working families who are not currently receiving government pre-K assistance, and who are struggling to pay for preschool tuition for their children.  We offer $160 per month per child enrolled in our program to their quality early learning centers in order to help offset the cost of pre-school care for each qualifying child from birth to 3 or 4 years of age (until VPK qualification).  Families can qualify for our assistance based on an application, financial criteria, and an interview.