Sports
Arts & music
STEM
Camps
After-school & life skills
Affordability
Fee waivers, sliding scales and scholarships published by the organizations that run these programs — each with who is eligible and the page that decides it. Nothing here is estimated from a family's income, and a program with no aid published simply does not appear. A few are awards toward college rather than help with a program fee; those are labelled College scholarship.
14 schemes serve Milton families.
Grants to Milton residents and families in financial need, primarily to prevent utility shut-off, buy home heating oil, prevent eviction due to non-payment of rent and promote safe and stable housing; eligibility is not determined strictly by income and each referral is considered on the individual or family situation.
Scholarships for Milton High School graduating seniors continuing to a two- or four-year college, certificate program or trade school; includes the General Education Scholarship and the Sam Cichello Memorial (STEM) and Mark G. Walsh Memorial (public safety/first responder) scholarships, each worth at least $1,000 and requiring a transcript and a 200-300 word essay.
Scholarships for Milton High School senior student-athletes continuing on to post-secondary education, funded by the Boosters and awarded at the year-end Varsity Celebration; the family must be a member of the Boosters to be eligible.
Two annual $500 one-time scholarships for graduating high school seniors who have participated in Milton Youth Soccer for at least four years and plan to continue at a vocational school, college or university or enlist in the US Armed Forces; applicants submit an application and a 400-600 word essay.
Families who qualify for the Free and Reduced Meal Program based on household size and income, and who also complete the Sharing Benefits with Other Programs form, can have that eligibility shared with other fee-based school programs; foster children are categorically eligible for free meals.
Needs-based financial assistance toward the MHS athletic fee of $250 per season ($400 for ice hockey or swim) up to a $1,200 per-family annual cap; exemptions may be granted by the Principal or Athletic Director on request during the registration period, and families who completed the free/reduced meal paperwork may skip the fee payment.
Need-based food pantry for low-income Milton residents; annual certification requires proof of Milton residency plus one current proof of need such as a SNAP, TAFDC, QCAP fuel-assistance, housing, MassHealth, EAEDC, free/reduced lunch, SSI or WIC letter, with review by the Milton Residents Fund social worker if none applies.
Emergency food pantry open to residents of Milton and nine other South Shore communities (Braintree, Cohasset, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Quincy, Randolph, Scituate, Weymouth); head of household must show proof of name at each visit and new clients register with identification for each household member.
State subsidy that pays child care and out-of-school-time providers directly for Massachusetts families who meet the program's income and service-need rules; families may pay a parent fee based on family size and income and many families pay nothing, and families receiving TAFDC or SNAP or with an active DCF case may qualify without joining the waitlist.
Fuel-assistance program that helps income-eligible households in Quincy, Weymouth, Braintree and Milton pay a portion of their winter heating costs from November through April, with payments made directly to the heating company; eligibility is by published annual income limits.
State-funded program providing paid short-term summer and school-year work experiences at public, private and nonprofit worksites for teens and young adults up to age 25, with job-readiness training; young people apply through their local MassHire career center, which sets any additional income eligibility.
Mass Audubon day camps, including those run at Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, price tuition on a sliding scale by annual gross family income.
Two $500 scholarships each year for graduating high school seniors who played in the Milton Girls Softball program; one-time grants toward further education.
Two $500 scholarships (one to a girl, one to a boy) for graduating seniors who played at least five years in Milton Youth Hockey.
What’s new
Registration openings, deadlines and published dates for programs in Milton, taken from the providers’ own pages. Nothing here is a deadline we worked out — where a source does not state a date, it says so.
When providers say registration opens and closes.