Community Scholarship Fund

Partial scholarships ranging between $500 and $1000 | Open to everyone | For use on any 2026 Freeflow field experience

APPLICATION WINDOW OPEN THROUGH MARCH 28, 2026

Funded by: the Freeflow community

Open to: Everyone

2026 Freeflow courses eligible for this award: All

The Freeflow Foundation’s Community Scholarship Fund is supported by generous contributions from the Freeflow community. The CSF enables us to make Freeflow Institute field courses more accessible to more people. We also aim to provide general guidance and support to those unfamiliar with outdoor education or backcountry travel. We are interested in helping people tell their stories, advocate for wild places, build connections, cultivate awareness and resilience, and catalyze positive change in the world.

Awards from the 2026 Community Scholarship Fund are waivers in amounts varying, on average, between $500 and $1000. In 2026 we are unable to offer full-tuition waivers. These scholarships do not cover travel costs, guide gratuity, or the cost of gear.

While preference is given to applicants from marginalized, underrepresented, or lower-income communities, everyone is welcome to apply to the Community Scholarship Fund.

We encourage all artists, writers, leaders, educators, students, journalists, communicators, activists, and professionals to participate in Freeflow. The Community Scholarship Fund exists to help you realize your vision.

You must be 18 or older to apply.

All 2026 Freeflow field experiences are eligible for CSF funds.

The 2026 application window is open through March 28.

Scholarship recipients will be notified of their awards in early April. If you are offered an award, you’ll need to accept your scholarship and commit to your Freeflow course no later than April 5, 2026.

We are a tiny organization with limited resources. We have a small gear-lending library. Let us know in your application what additional support you may need and we will try our best to help you out. We will provide you with substantive logistical preparation and support leading up to and after your Freeflow course.

We encourage you to seek financial support beyond what we are able to offer. We add to this list of external funding sources regularly.

Accepting a CSF award comes with simple and minimal expectations. These expectations include a full commitment to attending the course, sharing a brief bio and photo from the course, offering feedback on our programming, and submitting a short personal impact statement.

We add new scholarship opportunities often. The current offerings are listed here, on our main Scholarships page.

To apply, please fill out the form below. If you have trouble understanding or accessing the application, please contact us at [email protected] or and we will help you. To prevent the loss of your application content, please SAVE A COPY OF YOUR RESPONSES before submitting the online application form. As an alternative to sharing electronic files with us below, you can hand-write or print your application responses and mail them to Freeflow / PO Box 602 / Milltown, Montana 59851.

Community Scholarship Fund Application

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To apply for support from our Community Scholarship Fund, please gather your responses to the following questions into a cohesive, creative response and upload it here. We can accept applications in any media format: written document, video, audio, visual composition, multimedia, etc. Please upload any application materials here. If there are links you’d like us to visit, include those in the field below.
What are you trying to do in the world? What’s the story you’re hoping to tell, the work you’re hoping to do, or the change you’re hoping to make? How will your Freeflow course help you meet or exceed your goals? (Please be specific here.)
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    You may share a bit about your work, life experience, research, volunteerism, or leadership. You may also share with us how you’ve experienced barriers to the outdoors, to writing, or to creative work, generally. You may choose to share how your participation will contribute to a more inclusive and complex cohort.
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      You may, as an option, share more documents with us here. Maybe you’d like to share your CV, samples of your work, a current project, or shining letters of recommendation. Don’t feel pressured to use this space; share whatever you’d like us to see as we consider your application – whatever might help us better understand you and your work.