American Agri-Women

PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CONVENTION ATTENDANCE

Background:
The Resource Center is offering scholarships for women to attend the AAW Annual Convention with funds from the Helen Whitmore Memorial Fund. This year we are offering scholarships of $400.00 each.
Purpose: To encourage an awareness of AAW in young women, to increase active involvement in AAW, and to challenge them to have an influence on their peers.
Guidelines:

1) Affiliates are encouraged to provide additional funds, if needed, and assist with housing, travel and registration arrangements for their scholarship recipient.

2) Applicants must have an agriculture relationship and interest.

3) Recipients are required to write a report on their convention experience. Reports or excerpts will be used in the AAW Voice and affiliate newsletters.

4) Recipients do not have to be a current AAW member, but must agree to join for the current membership year. If they wish to vote at the current year's Convention, dues must be paid to the AAW treasurer by September 30th. Recipients are also encouraged to join a local affiliate.

5) Application form (below) is to be signed by the applicant and the president/or other designated officer.

DEADLINE:

1) Application postmark date is August 15 of the current year. (Download the application form below)

2) Please call, fax or e-mail to the above address that you are submitting an application and the name. This is extremely important in case of a delay in the mail.

3) Winners and their affiliate president will be notified by September 15th of the current year.

4) Affiliate presidents will need to see that the scholarship winners get registered at the early registration rate; all winners are eligible for this rate, but need to get it in as soon as possible.

5) Scholarship recipients are expected to attend the full convention.

The Resource Center depends upon donations and grants to continue and increase all AAW educational programs and projects. We encourage you to promote donations to the Center. It is a 501 c(3) educational, nonprofit corporation. Donations are tax deductible to the extent of the current IRS regulations.

Regular donations and those made "in honor or in memory" are accepted and acknowledged. Donations can be sent to the AAW Resource Treasurer. You may designate funds to either general fund or to a specific project, such as the Whitmore Fund. Information on other programs is available from the treasurer.

On behalf of the AAW Resource Center Board of Directors, we appreciate your assistance and support. Thank you for supporting this project and helping to build a stronger American Agri-Women organization.

HELEN WHITMORE CONVENTIONS SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship was named to honor Helen Whitmore, a well-respected rancher and teacher from California. It was initiated in 1993 by a friend and AAW past-president Mitzi Ayala Perdue. It was established to increase active involvement in AAW and to encourage members to influence their home affiliate members.

This scholarship is available to any AAW member to attend the annual AAW Convention held in November of each year. The applicant may be of any age, but cannot have attended a past Convention. Only one applicant per affiliate will be accepted.

The scholarship is for $400. Applications are due by August 15th of each year. A copy of the application and the submission information may be found on the AAW website (www.americanagriwomen.org).

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