For schools, scholarships can create more opportunities for students to enroll and stay in an educational environment that best fits their needs.

But managing scholarships can be a lot for one school to handle. Applications, eligibility reviews, awards, reporting, family communication, and administration can create a significant operational burden.

ACE Scholarships helps reduce that burden through scholarship expertise and EmpowerEd by ACE Scholarships™, its scholarship management platform. Together, they make it easier to connect more students with educational opportunities.

Scholarships Can Help More Students Access Your School

Scholarships can help close financial gaps by giving eligible students additional resources to pursue an educational environment that best fits their needs.

For schools, that can mean reaching families who might otherwise be unable to consider enrolling or continuing enrollment.

ACE Scholarships has more than 25 years of scholarship experience, has delivered more than 121,000 scholarships, and works with more than 1,100 partner schools.

That experience shapes how ACE approaches school partnerships: Start with students and families, then build the operational systems needed to support them.

ACE Helps Reduce the Administrative Burden

ACE provides the scholarship expertise and operational support behind that work. EmpowerEd is the technology that helps organize it.

Together, they are designed to make scholarship participation easier for schools without requiring schools to build an entire scholarship management system themselves.

What Is a Scholarship Management Platform?

A scholarship management platform is technology that helps organizations manage the processes involved in administering scholarships, including applications, eligibility, awards, reporting, and other administrative needs.

How Does EmpowerEd Support Schools and Families?

EmpowerEd supports the journey from family application to scholarship awards to distribution of funds for educational expenses.

Launched in May 2026, EmpowerEd is the only co-branded, end-to-end scholarship management technology platform built by a national SGO.

Parents can apply through the platform, receive award information, and use approved funding for eligible education expenses. School partners can access donation and student application information through their dashboard.

EmpowerEd also offers customizable school marketplaces where partners can select eligible items and services for students to purchase with scholarship funds.

The result is a more connected experience for families and schools, with ACE providing scholarship expertise and EmpowerEd supporting the operational work.

How Could This Support the Education Freedom Tax Credit?

A strong school partnership can expand student access without creating unnecessary operational strain.

The Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC) creates new opportunities for qualifying scholarships beginning January 1, 2027.

As the initiative develops, schools may need systems that can support greater application volume, scholarship administration, reporting, and compliance requirements.

EmpowerEd is ACE’s scholarship management platform for supporting those operational needs. It should not be confused with federal approval or federal infrastructure. Federal EFTC participation remains subject to the requirements of Internal Revenue Code Section 25F, participating states, and applicable Treasury and IRS guidance.

Make Scholarship Participation Easier for Your School

ACE brings the scholarship expertise. EmpowerEd provides the technology. Your school stays focused on serving students and families.

Submit a Partnership Inquiry to learn how EmpowerEd by ACE Scholarships™ can support your school.