Examples

From WikiAdvocacy

PXE International 2010 Scholarship Application form (done in Jotform at: [1])

Application for Travel, Lodging and Registration Scholarship

One (1) student, one (1) disabled individual, and four (4) minority applicants will receive travel, lodging and registration to the PXE Research Meeting 2010 to be held November 29-30, 2010 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, MD. Recipients of the award must write a report in lay language about one aspect of the meeting, minimum 750 words, by December 30, 2010.

Student Eligibility Criteria: Graduate student in a science or health services major.

Disabled Individual Eligibility Criteria: Disabled, student or scientist - currently or formerly, 18 years or older, in a research science or health services program - currently or formerly.

Minority Eligibility Criteria: Minority graduate students in a research science or health services program. Specifically, applicants must be members of one of the following racial/ethnic groups:

~ Black/African American ~ Latino/a (e.g. Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban) ~ American Indian or Alaskan Native ~ Asian (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian) ~ Pacific Islander (e.g. Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Filipino)

1. Please select one of the following:

Student Scholarship Disabled Scholarship Minority Scholarship

The following questions are designed to collect information about your background, interests and your college and career plans. Your answers to these questions will be used only in connection with your application for this scholarship competition and will be seen only by the Planning Committee and other qualified persons working on the Program.

A. You - The Candidate

1. Legal name in full:*

First Name Last Name

1. Permanent home address:*

Street Address Street Address Line 2 City State / Province Postal / Zip Code Country

1. Gender:*

Male Female

1. Phone number:*

- Area Code Phone Number

1. E-mail:*

Minority Group - For Minority Scholarship Application

1. Please select one of the following:

Black/African American Latino/a (e.g. Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban) American Indian or Alaskan Native Asian (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian) Pacific Islander (e.g. Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Filipino)

B. Your Education

1. Name of university or college:
2. Address:

Street Address Street Address Line 2 City State / Province Postal / Zip Code Country

1. Phone number:

- Area Code Phone Number

C. Specific information to help the Planning Committee determine your overall interest in this meeting.

1. Planned or current course of study:
2. Have you made a decision regarding your future occupation?

Yes No

1. If yes, what is your career goal?
2. In 250 words or less, describe why you are interested in this meeting:

Deadline for submission of application is October 11, 2010. We will confirm the receipt of your application by email. Applicants will be notified whether their application has been accepted or rejected no later than October 18, 2010.

The PXE Research Meeting 2010 program is available at www.pxe.org . If you have any questions before submitting this application, please contact Sharon Terry, Executive Director of PXE International at sterry@pxe.org . By submitting this application you attest to it's accuracy and give PXE International express permission to provide your name, address and phone number to members of the PXE Research Meeting 2010 Planning Committee in order that they may determine scholarship awardees.

Comments below by Hope Leman, Web Administrator of ScanGrants:

On ScanGrants http://www.scangrants.com/ I try to list as many travel grants http://www.scangrants.com/category/travel-grants.aspx and essay/poster/abstract awards http://www.scangrants.com/category/essay-award.aspx as I can find. They not only benefit the students and researchers who get them, they increase the visibility of the organization offering them.

The Genetic Alliance does a good job by offering such awards for its conference and I know that as I work on ScanGrants when I leave a disease advocacy Web site that offers stipends and scholarships I carry away a better impression of that group. The amounts can be small, but even $200 or so for an undergraduate researcher or $1,000 for a postdoctoral fellow to come to a conference pays huge dividends in public good will and in word of mouth interest about a disease that many new investigators may not have heard of before.

There are various ways to offer awards. There are straightforward conference scholarships and there are poster and abstract awards. I suggest all offering all three. The first can attract those who are interested in your topic but who have not done any research on it yet and the latter can be a boost to early career and student researchers that enables them to put something in their CV and can set them on the path to further work on your topic.

Additionally, more and more and more groups are sponsoring video contests. That can interests not only participants but can get your views onto YouTube and other video-friendly sites. And don’t forget to tweet the news of such contests and awards.

Essay contests are a way to appeal to non-researchers (e.g., “A Day in the Life of a Patient With…”) or contests for poems, paintings, designs for assistive devices are other possibilities. I encourage a bit of a monetary award, however small, as that can mean a lot to a high school or college student. The American Society of Human Genetics sponsors a DNA Day Essay Contest for 9th – 12th grade students, for example, with prizes of up to $400 + teacher receives a $2,000 grant for laboratory genetics equipment.