The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) is a self-financing, not-for-profit state authority dedicated to assisting students and parents in meeting the challenges of financing higher education. mefa.org

FastWeb lets students create a personalized profile that can be matched against its expansive database of scholarships. This is a free online scholarship matching service whose database has over 800,000 scholarships totaling more than $1 billion. FastWeb also notifies students when new scholarships are added and application deadlines are approaching. fastweb.com