Get support

Before you drop out, reach out.

A bill, a lease, a ride, a form, a hard semester. Whatever is standing between you and your degree, start here. Asking for help is how students finish.

Start with REACH Open the Portal

If you are thinking about suicide or are in emotional crisis, you are not alone.

Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, free and confidential, any time. Or chat at 988lifeline.org. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

EFF is not an emergency service.

EFF's programs review requests and respond as quickly as they can, but they cannot respond in real time. For food, housing and utility help near you today, call 211 or visit 211.org.

Where to start

Four doors, one goal: stay enrolled.

Start here

REACH Action Hub

Scholarships, emergency support, a stay-enrolled plan, cost-gap tools and guided next steps in one place. Before you drop out, REACH.

Open REACH Apply & track

EFF Student Portal

Apply for EFF scholarships, request emergency aid, upload documents and follow your application's status.

Go to the Portal Talk it through

National Student Help Desk

Open a case for help with financial aid, billing, housing, registration, scholarships and more.

Open a case Food this week

REACH Emergency Food Request

For currently enrolled college students facing an urgent food emergency. Requests are reviewed by urgency and available resources.

Request food help

Why students leave

The barriers are real. So is the response.

A bill, a lease, a ride or a quiet semester alone can end a college career before a student ever decides to leave. EFF meets the barrier before it becomes a withdrawal.

Before you drop out, REACH Open the Portal

A tuition balance

A hold on the account can stop registration before the semester starts. EFF scholarships and Name Your Need let the student's real barrier shape the help.

Apply in the Portal Browse scholarships

Housing that falls through

Esther's Lift is EFF's short-term emergency assistance for housing, transportation and critical educational needs.

Request aid in the Portal Open a Help Desk case

An empty fridge

No one learns well hungry. REACH routes food emergencies and connects students with help nearby.

Request emergency food help Find local help at 211

No way to get there

Class, work and clinicals all need a ride. Transportation is one of the needs Esther's Lift was built for.

Request aid in the Portal

Books and course materials

The syllabus arrives before the refund does. REACH gathers resources and next steps in one place.

Open REACH

Financial-aid confusion

Verification, billing, a form no one explained. The National Student Help Desk works the case with the student.

Open a case

Feeling alone

Belonging keeps students enrolled. Chapters, mentors, sisterhood and brotherhood mean no one navigates college alone.

Find a mentor Men of EFF Pretty Girls Who Serve

Not ready for what's next

A resume, an interview, a recommendation letter: free EFF tools that remove the barrier in minutes.

Build a resume Practice an interview

More ways EFF helps

Tools, faith and a next step.

EFF Essentials

College help from EFF.

Visit EFF Essentials

CLUTCH

Verified student profiles meet the donors who can clear a barrier.

Explore CLUTCH

EFF Builds Your Resume

A free tool that builds a stronger, more professional resume with you.

Build your resume

EFF Interview Coach

A free eight-question mock interview with instant coaching.

Practice an interview

60-Second Recommendation Letter

A free EFF recommendation letter for scholarship applications, in under a minute.

Get a letter through REACH

Esther's Light

Faith, prayer and ministry from Esther Funds Foundation.

Visit Esther's Light

Selah

Selah, from Esther Funds Foundation.

Visit Selah

Mental health support for students

Meet Selah. A quiet place to breathe.

For the weight of deadlines, finances and expectations: room for prayer, reflection and rest, with no pressure.

Enter Selah

A ministry program of Esther Funds Foundation

Enter Esther’s Light.

A year-long faith journey: Bible plans, prayer, academies, fasting guides, leadership training and EFF support. Open to every student who wants it.

Open the Esther’s Light portal

For EFF members

Ask for care or prayer, privately

Members can ask for care, prayer or help from inside MyEFF. It reaches only the person you choose: your chapter's Director of Ministry, your chapter leaders, or National.