Early Career Registration Grants2025 early career grant applications are due by May 31, 2025!NALMS awards registration and membership grants to ...

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Early Career Registration Grants

2025 early career grant applications are due by May 31, 2025!
NALMS awards registration and membership grants to help reduce/eliminate the financial barriers for early career members to attend the NALMS Annual International Symposium and be a member of the Society. At the time of request for an Early Career Registration Grant, an applicant must fit the definition of a NALMS Early Career Member, i.e. < 5 years post-graduation.

To be considered for a registration grant…
You must submit a 1-2 page cover letter indicating the following:
Why you are interested in attending the NALMS symposium
If you are interested in attending the full symposium or for a single day
If you have any previous involvement in NALMS, or if not, why you have an interest in getting involved
If you have, or are planning to, submit an abstract to present (not required)
What your financial barriers to attending the symposium are, if any
You must submit your current resume/CV
Please submit these materials to nalms2025@nalms.org by the deadline of May 31, 2025

Here’s how we make our selection:
Our Scholarship Committee will review your cover letter and resume/CV
The committee will score and rank your application against other applications
The committee will consider the following when deciding to ask our Board to support your grant:
The availability of funds in the Ann St. Amand Early Career Fund
The number of applicants
Your application rank
The amount of aid you’ve requested (i.e. full registration or single day registration)
You will be notified by the end of June if you have or have not received a registration grant
Our Distribution & Reimbursement Policy
We use these guidelines when distributing grant funds.

Conference Registration: If your request for funding is approved, you will receive a free NALMS Member Registration or Single Day Registration (if only one-day was requested), which includes all meals offered as part of the regular program.
NALMS Membership: If you are a first-time awardee you will receive a free one-year early career membership in NALMS.
Repeat Awards: You may submit only one application each year. However, you may request aid in multiple years. The Scholarship Committee may consider your prior awards as a factor when scoring your application. After you receive your first award you must be a NALMS member to receive further awards.

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