This scholarship is awarded to a currently enrolled, full-time, undergraduate student. Applicants must maintain at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA and demonstrate support of the LGBTQIA+ community, either on campus or off campus, through significant support, engagement or volunteering.
March 1
Learn more about the CAS LGBTQIA+ Scholarship
The LGBTQIA+ Emergency Grant is designed to provide students with financial assistance in cases of emergencies. This fund is designed to help students who have suffered personal property loss, emergency medical needs and other unforeseen emergency expenses.
Rolling deadline
Checklist for Application Materials & Process
This scholarship provides support for LGBTQIA+ students who are experiencing financial difficulty due to loss of support from family. The LGBTQIA+ scholarship program believes that LGBTQIA+ students should be supported in harnessing and commanding their own extraordinary power.
Rolling deadline
Apply for the Empowerment Fund
This scholarship supports all students, regardless of gender or sexual diversity, who are or will be enrolled in any degree program at UMKC. The scholarship seeks to award students who have demonstrated leadership and involvement toward the advancement of LGBTQIA+ equity and inclusion at UMKC or in their community.
Learn more about the incoming first-year and transfer student application
Learn more about the continuing student application
The McDowd-Filion Love Wins Fund supports LGBTQIA+ and allied students who are or will be enrolled full time in any graduate degree program at UMKC, are in good academic standing and are working to promote inclusion, equity and social justice — either formally such as through research or coursework or informally through community-based work.