The Brave of Heart Scholarship supports the children (age 26 and under), spouses or domestic partners of frontline healthcare workers who lost their lives to COVID-related causes. The child must be living in the frontline healthcare worker's household or primarily supported by the frontline healthcare worker. If the child is enrolled in a graduate school program, they must be age 26 and under and may be financially dependent or independent to be eligible. Frontline healthcare worker is defined as a person who lived in the United States at the time of death and worked or volunteered in or for a licensed hospital, medical center or clinic, nursing home, medical transport vehicle, triage center, or other licensed medical facility, provider, or setting, or who worked or volunteered as an emergency medical technician, ambulance technician or paramedic. The individual must have had the possibility of exposure to patients with COVID-19 while working or volunteering. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal residents who plan to enroll in undergraduate or graduate study at an accredited college, university or vocational-technical school in the upcoming academic year. Applicants must have a minimum grade point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or its equivalent. Non-traditional students are encouraged to apply, and will be considered even if they do not have a recent GPA. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident living in and attending an educational institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory. Study abroad programs may be eligible courses of study if run through an educational institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory. Applicants can receive the award a maximum of eight terms, for four academic years, or through the 2026-27 school year, whichever occurs first. Graduate Degree applicants must have a patient-facing healthcare major, such as medical school, masters of science in nursing or master of health science in physician assistant studies. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact E4E Relief for more information.