As Parents Struggle, a Reported $100 Million in Scholarships Go Unused Every Year

ConnectScholar Matches Students to Educational Funds and Grants, Hoping to Close the Gap on the Millions of Untapped Scholarships Reported Each Year

BOSTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--ConnectScholar, www.ConnectScholar.com, today announced the launch of its new monthly service that enables students to easily find available scholarship dollars. Rather than spending countless hours researching random scholarship opportunities, ConnectScholar has created a one-stop destination for students and parents to search, locate, and apply for currently available and relevant educational scholarships.

“With over $100 million of unused scholarships reported each year, we decided to create a monthly subscription-based online destination that would help students and parents streamline this process, and in turn, find and apply for scholarships that were available to them.”

“I was surprised to discover the huge number of scholarships that are available and all the different kinds of scholarships there are, but how difficult it is to find any information on them. We decided there had to be a more efficient and effective way of helping students search for scholarships that fit with their background and interests,” said Ted Anastasi, Co-Founder at ConnectScholar.com. “With over $100 million of unused scholarships reported each year, we decided to create a monthly subscription-based online destination that would help students and parents streamline this process, and in turn, find and apply for scholarships that were available to them.”

Until now, there has been no easy way to search for available scholarships. Current sources offer fragmented and incomplete data that are difficult to use and often require you to provide enormous amounts of private information. ConnectScholar.com is the only website that gives you complete control over your search for the right scholarship. ConnectScholar’s unique search tool provides 14 customizable categories to find the scholarships that fit your specific background and interests. No other source provides this freedom and flexibility. And the more scholarships you find, the more you can apply to - vastly increasing your chance of receiving an award.

About ConnectScholar

Launched in 2010, www.ConnectScholar.com was the brainchild of passionate developers seeking to provide parents and students with an easy, customizable way to find scholarships. The site offers a single online destination with a Personal Workspace for searching scholarship opportunities, saving selected scholarships, downloading scholarship applications, writing essays, and submitting completed scholarship applications. It is breaking ground for students and parents by arming them with the tools for achieving scholarship success.