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Online college scholarship and grant programs are plentiful, but many are hiding. The trick to winning a free distance learning college scholarship or grant is to know they exist. GetEducated.com has compiled a list of the best free online education grant and scholarship programs to help you get closer to an affordable online degree. In fact, we even sponsor our own online college scholarship program which makes $1,000 grants to distance learning students for college and continuing education online. Whether you are searching for financial aid scholarships or grants for women, the military, or to cut the cost of your bachelors or masters degree consult GetEducated.com's online school financial aid advice center to find the best online university financial aid in the form of free money.
Unemployed new mom Amanda Lienhardt, 30, found herself looking intoonline teaching certificate programs, months after her short-term contract teaching at a small school finished.
Despite holding a degree in elementary education, it was hard for her to get a foothold in the wavering job market, and her experience in that temporary job left her reeling.
"The way things ended with my last position just made me look at myself as a teacher, and ask 'How can I improve, and become a better teacher for my students?'" she says.
Lynn Ponder, 44, isn’t the only one in her household who will be in college next year: The online student will be midway through her Master of Arts in Technical Communications at Texas Tech University next fall, just as her 18-year-old daughter enters classes on a college campus for the first time. Thanks to Get Educated, which has scholarships for single moms and others, this single mom's pursuit will be easier.
With the help of Get Educated's $1,000 Excellence in Online Education Scholarship -- which was awarded to Ponder as a member of Core4Women, a web-based support network for online students -- she’ll be completing her semester with fewer expenses.
Rosa Morgan, 42, is an In School Suspension Supervisor at Lebanon Middle School in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the winner of the GetEducated.com free $1,000 online college scholarship. Rosa will use the grant toward an online Bachelors of Management at Indiana Wesleyan University.
At ten years old, Morgan moved to America from the Cape Verde Islands, located off the coast of Africa. School was challenging for Morgan, as she was placed in bi-lingual immersion classes. Without any prior experience speaking English, she struggled to keep up with her studies.
Morgan remembers, “I did not know many English words and I did not know many Portuguese words. I had come from an island that was colonized by the Portuguese, so the language in school was Portuguese, but we spoke Creole at home. My island was very poor, so school was not a high priority.”
Heather Ellison, 36, works as a restaurant manager in Rodney, Minnesota, while earning a master of business administration (MBA) at Baker College Online. She is a winner of a GetEducated.com $1,000 distance learning scholarship award.
Ellison is a single mother working 50+ hours a week, so distance learning became the only option for her to achieve a higher education. She attended a university directly out of high school, but dropped out during her last semester.
After working in the restaurant industry since she was sixteen, Ellison now values the importance of a college degree. She explains, “This is not where I saw myself being, and this is not where my passions lie.”
Dayna Shong, 39, works as an inpatient coder at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the winner of a GetEducated.com $1,000 Excellence in Online Education Scholarship. She will use the free college grant to pursue an online bachelor of science in health degree at Dakota State University.
After landing a job in retail, which paid the bills but did not provide a lot of personal satisfaction, Shong began looking through an occupational handbook at the library in search of a more satisfying career. Health administration immediately sparked her interest. In the fall of 2002, she signed up for an online course in Medical Terminology.
“I decided to take the most difficult class I could find to prove myself during my first semester. I studied harder than I ever have in my life,” explains Shong. “To this day, this is my favorite class. I found studying about anatomy, physiology, procedures, and vocabulary fascinating. I was hooked from day one.”
Unemployed new mom Amanda Lienhardt, 30, found herself looking into 
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Lynn Ponder, 44, isn’t the only one in her household who will be in college next year: The online student 
Heather Ellison, 36, works as a restaurant manager in Rodney, Minnesota, while earning a master of business administration (MBA) at Baker College Online. She is a winner of a 
Dayna Shong, 39, works as an inpatient coder at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the winner of a 