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Prospectus/Who it's for/Bursary funders
Corporates · foundations · trusts

Your bursary, actually found.

Funded bursaries go undersubscribed every year while the learners they were written for never hear of them. Prospectus lists your programme in the live funding index and matches it to students on real marks and household means — so your intake fills with the people it was meant for.

  • A corporate with a Skills Development bursary programme
  • A foundation or trust funding studies
  • Tired of undersubscribed intakes and wrong-fit applications
Why it matters

Large SA companies must spend 2.5% of leviable amount on bursaries for Black students (Skills Development, B-BBEE) — yet funded programmes sit undersubscribed while eligible learners in the townships never hear of them.

  • An undersubscribed bursary is the most expensive kind: full budget, mandated spend, partial impact.
  • Broadcasting through agencies reaches applicants, not eligibility — screening wrong-fit stacks costs real staff time.
  • The learners your programme was written for are findable by marks and means; “they didn’t apply” usually means “they never heard of you”.
What your Desk does
  • ✓Your bursary listed and verified in the live funding indexLive
  • ✓Matched to students on real marks and household meansLive
  • ✓Your deadline lands on every eligible student’s DeskLive
  • ○Application routing and intake reportingIn build

Same B2B model as institutions: students never pay. Listing and eligibility matching are live today; funder-side reporting is in build — we say exactly where it stands.

Talk to partnerships →See the funding index
How it works
  1. 1

    List and verify

    Your programme joins the live funding index — real fields, real thresholds, deadline and terms stated honestly.

  2. 2

    Matched on eligibility

    Students see your bursary because their marks and means genuinely fit — not because of ad spend.

  3. 3

    Grow the partnership

    Application routing and intake reporting are in build; talk to partnerships about what you need.

For example

Say you fund twenty engineering bursaries for learners from households under a set income, with a maths-and-science profile — and every year the intake closes short.

  1. Your bursary is listed and verified in the live funding index — fields, thresholds, deadline, work-back terms flagged honestly.
  2. It’s matched to students whose real marks and household means fit — and it lands on their Desk with the deadline tracked.
  3. Applications come from learners who actually clear your bar (routing and intake reporting are in build — we say exactly where that stands).

An intake filled with genuinely eligible learners instead of an undersubscribed line item. Students never pay — funders partner with us.

Illustrative — a hypothetical, not a real user.

Questions
Do students pay to see our bursary?

Never. Students are always free — that’s the point of the model. Funders partner with us.

What does listing cost?

Partnership terms are agreed directly — talk to us via the contact page. We don’t publish a rate card because programmes differ widely in size and need.

Can we get intake or compliance reporting?

Honestly: funder-side reporting is in build, not live. Listing, verification and eligibility matching work today; tell us what your reporting needs are and it shapes what we build.

How do you verify listings?

Every funder in the index is real and active — we verify before listing and never pad the catalogue with fabricated totals.

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Built for you. Not just matrics.

Prospectus reads where you actually stand — your stage, your marks, your means — and renders the routes that are genuinely open. Honestly, and only what's real.

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