Grants/Scholarship
This award supplements the HOPE Grant for students in designated high-demand certificate and diploma programs.
What is the HOPE Career Grant?
This federal law is designed to improve the public workforce system by helping job seekers access training, education, and employment services.
What is Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?
This new Pell option supports eligible students enrolled in approved short-term workforce programs.
What is Workforce Pell?
This VA education benefit may help eligible veterans pay for tuition, books, housing, or other approved education costs.
What is the GI Bill?
This Georgia initiative uses a student’s HOPE GPA and academic record to identify public colleges and universities where the student may be eligible for admission.
What is GEORGIA MATCH?
This website provides information about Georgia’s HOPE programs, scholarships, grants, colleges, and financial-aid applications.
What is GAfutures?
This WIOA title provides GED, HiSET, adult literacy, and English-language services.
What is Title II Adult Education?
This agency oversees both Regular Pell and Workforce Pell Grants.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
This document is generally used to determine eligibility for federal student aid, including Regular Pell and Workforce Pell.
What is the FAFSA?
This state agency administers Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship, HOPE Grant, and other state financial-aid programs.
What is the Georgia Student Finance Commission?
This academic measure is calculated using high school coursework to determine initial eligibility for Georgia programs such as the HOPE Scholarship
What is the high school HOPE GPA?
An eligible participant may receive this WIOA service when career services alone are not enough to help the person obtain employment.
What are training services?
Unlike Regular Pell, Workforce Pell is designed for programs that generally last a minimum of how many weeks.
What are 8 weeks?
This program allows eligible high school students to take college courses while earning credit toward high school graduation.
What is Dual Enrollment?
This work-based learning model allows individuals to earn wages while receiving structured training for an occupation.
What is an apprenticeship?
Students may apply for HOPE Career Grant funds by completing either of these two applications.
What are the FAFSA or the Georgia Student Finance Application (GSFAPP)?
In Georgia, this agency administers the state Vocational Rehabilitation program.
What is the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency?
This board will review and ensure that workforce pell programs meet state requirements
What is the state workforce development board
This Georgia initiative aligns education, workforce development, and economic priorities to help Georgians access high-demand careers
What is the Top State for Talent initiative?
This education pathway prepares students for careers through academic instruction, technical skills, and hands-on learning.
What is Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education, or CTAE?
This limit applies to the number of semester hours a student may receive through the HOPE Grant or Zell Miller Grant.
What are 63 semester hours?
Veterans, public-assistance recipients, low-income individuals, and basic-skills-deficient individuals may receive this type of consideration in covered workforce programs.
What is priority of service?
This is the maximum scheduled Pell Grant award for 2026-27?
What is 7,395?
This term describes a career field in which employers have current or projected difficulty finding enough qualified workers to fill available positions.
What is an in-demand occupation?
A participant who lost employment because of a plant closure, layoff, or other qualifying event may be served under this WIOA program.
What is the Dislocated Worker Program?