Giving a person the power or ability to do something is enablement. The enablement of anyone to get a college education, no matter their family's income, is the purpose of need-based financial aid.
While many dictionaries don't include the word enablement, it's used all the time, especially in business and legal writing. It's essentially a synonym for "empowerment" in phrases like "sales enablement," or "enablement platforms," both of which are about making it easier for salespeople to sell things. In patent law, enablement refers to a requirement that inventions must include instructions which enable regular people to use them. Enablement is from enable, "to make able to."