NATAS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT

Application Deadline – March 15, 2012

The NATAS San Francisco/Northern California Chapter annually awards grants of up to $500 each to broadcasters seeking to improve their professional skills.

Rules:

• All NATAS Professional and Life members qualify to apply for a Pro Dev Grant, provided they have worked in the industry for at least five years. This is not a scholarship for students, but rather a grant for broadcasting professionals.
• Grants may be used to take academic courses, workshops, or seminars (whether they are taught in a classroom environment or in a private setting where an instructor works with the NATAS member one-on-one).
• Grant cannot be used to attend any conventions.
• Grant money will be paid directly to the accredited institution the member attends, after verification of enrollment; the grant may be used to pay for one, or more, approved classes.
• Each year, we will try to offer one grant per geographic region of the NATAS SF/NorCal Chapter (San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Fresno/Hawaii, Reno/Salinas-Monterey/Chico-Redding/ Eureka. At the selection committee’s discretion, if nobody applies from a specific region, the grant may be offered to an applicant from a different area. This reallocation of money would only take place when there are no applicants from a specific geographic region and we could fund a member from another area. Furthermore, the selection committee reserves the right to award one, two, three, four or no grants at all, depending on the availability of funds and the quality of the applications.
• Applicants may not apply for more than one grant per year.
• A person who wins the Pro Dev Grant and reapplies the following year will be placed at the bottom of the list of candidates.
• The application process is open to all NATAS Professional and Life members, including those serving on the Board of Governors, as long as they don’t serve on the committee that selects the grant recipients.

Deadline:

• Applications must be submitted by March 15, 2012.

Recipients:

• Recipients will be selected by a sub-committee of the Membership Committee. This sub- committee will consist of an odd number of members, and it will include at least 3 people.
• The selection committee will strive to notify the recipients of the Pro Dev Grant within two weeks after the application deadline.
• Recipients will be chosen on a merit and/or needs basis.
• The list of recipients will be published in Off Camera (with the title of the class they will take and the name of the institution they will attend, or the instructor with whom they will study).
• Recipients must show a certificate of completion of their coursework.
• Recipients are required to write an article for Off Camera once they conclude their coursework. They may choose to post a sample of their work, in whatever form it may be. If someone takes a web design course, they can show off their new website as “a result” of what they learned thanks to the Pro Dev Grant.

Application is available here, and the deadline is March 15, 2012.