How do other schools support their students in case of financial emergency? Check out these schools:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: http://studentaffairs.unc.edu/giving/student-emergency-fund.html 

College of Staten Island: http://www.csi.cuny.edu/PetrieGrant/

University of Texas at Austin: http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/studentemergencyfund.php

Texas Woman’s University: http://www.twu.edu/student-life-office/emergency-loan.asp

Washburn University: http://www.washburn.edu/main/business-office/emergency-student-loans.html

University of Illinois at Chicago: http://grad.uic.edu/cms/?pid=1000948

University of Michigan-Dearborn: http://www.umd.umich.edu/fullstory/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=59886&cHash=750647574f

San Jose State University: http://www.sjsu.edu/eop/resources/

San Jose State: http://www.sjsu.edu/studentaffairs/docs/Student_Emergency_Fund_application.pdf (application)

Austin Community College: http://www.austincc.edu/support/financialaid/emergencyfund.php

Ashland Community & Technical College: http://ashland.kctcs.edu/giving/vision_of_vitality/emergency_student_fund

Macomb Community College: http://www.macomb.edu/Future+Students/Financial+Aid/ (Look for Dreamkeepers Emergency Assistance Fund

Goddard College: http://www.goddard.edu/emergency_fund

Austin Peay State University: http://www.apsu.edu/sga/millersga-emergency-loan-fund

Texas Tech University: http://www.iaff.ttu.edu/main/ISSS/Forms/List.asp (International Student TPEG Application)

Texas Tech University: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/funding/gelin.php (Gelin Emergency Loan Fund for Graduates Students)

Baruch College: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/financialaid/studentemergencyfund.htm

University of Maryland at College Park: http://www.financialaid.umd.edu/scholarship_info/dreamkeepers.php

University of Connecticut: http://www.ossa.uconn.edu/forms.html (look for Short Term Emergency Loan Fund (STELF) Information Sheet

University  of Pennsylvania:  http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/jbs/grant.html

University of Pennsylvania: http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/ala/emergency.html (example of Association of Latino Alumni)

University of Virginia: http://www.virginia.edu/ms/graduatefinancialassistance.html (For Material Science & Engineering students)

Indiana University: http://imagine.iuf.indiana.edu/articles/spring10/in-case-of-emergency.html