Home School Legal Defense Association

• The nonprofit, Christian-based Home School Legal Defense Association advocates for the constitutional right of parents to teach their children at home. Defending the rights of member parents to direct their children's education involves advocating for both parental rights and religious freedom, according to the HSLDA, through courts, lobbying and public forums. The association does its grant-making through the Home School Foundation. In addition, the HSLDA sponsors art, essay, photo, poetry and video contests with cash prizes for winning home school students. The association garners discounts for home-schoolers through its Click for Homeschooling affiliate program with retailers and its Per-X program, which offers its members deals on items such as products, online services, travel and insurance.
  
  

Home School Foundation

• In 1994, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) created the Home School Foundation, which is funded by private donors. The foundation offers an array of grants and scholarships to assist families who teach their kids at home, according to the HSF website. The Compassion Fund awards grants to home-schooling families and groups who are in need due to natural disaster and other dire circumstances. The Widows Fund helps widows and widowers with emergency and curriculum costs. The Children of Single Parents aids single Christian parents who experience financial difficulty during the home school year. There is also a fund to help with special therapy and equipment for special needs children and an International Homeschooling Fund, which provides grant funding to foreign home school organizations. The HSF also offers Patrick Henry College scholarships to PHC freshmen in need who have records of outstanding achievement and who are from an HSLDA member family. The Generation Joshua fund helps homeschoolers develop curricula that address "homeschooling freedoms and parental rights." The HSF Curriculum Relief Fund helps struggling HSLDA members meet their children's core curricular needs.
  
  

Children's Scholarship Fund

• The Children's Scholarship Fund, founded in 1998, has helped 116,000 children from low-income families, including those in home school, attend private school for four years. The CSF seeks to offer partial tuition assistance to kids in grades K-8 for alternatives to failing public schools. If parents choose to home school their children through a CSF scholarship, one choice is K12®, a home school curriculum program that gives CSF families major discounts, according to the CSF website.
  
  

College Scholarship Grants

• Many colleges offer scholarships to high school graduates who exhibit merit and/or financial need. Many of these include but are not exclusive to home school candidates. AWANA Citation Scholarships, offered by 40 colleges, are not just for home-schoolers, but many of the colleges that provide the awards are home-school friendly. Other scholarships are designed for home-schoolers. For example, Bryan College in Tennessee offers the $1,000 Summit/Homeschool Grant, available to freshmen who are home-educated for the last two years of high school. A comprehensive list of scholarships for home-school educated high school graduates is included in the Resources section.
  
  

Other

• Check with local and state home-school organizations and churches for additional home-school grant opportunities.