In the ever-changing current COVID-19 environment with the CARES Act, institutions are having internal conversations about who leads (finance v. student services), whether they need students to complete an application, if they should reexamine financial need in this new time, what entity or processes should be in place to coordinate, what are implications for audits, etc. 

This publication is a set of tools to help the field codify the process of awarding emergency aid. Emergency Aid for Higher Education: A Toolkit and Resource Guide for Decision-Makers is the result of more than 10 months of research, interviews, focus groups, and webinars with Dash Emergency Grant recipients that elucidated current best practices, and gaps, in administering EA programs.