Nebraska Association
of
County Agricultural Agents
Scholarship Program

FOR GROUP APPLICATIONS - All tour members must meet criteria, including address and social security number, home and office phone, contribution of $40 to the NACAA Scholarship Fund by June 30, 2003, whether they received a previous scholarship and if so, how much. List this on a separate sheet of paper and attach to the scholarship application. 

If you have not contributed at least $40, please make a point to do so by our Nebraska Ag Section Annual Meeting in November, 2008.  
 

Criteria for Awarding Scholarships (in 2008)
1. Application must carry signature of State Association President, State Scholarship Chair and Appropriate State Extension Administrator.
2. Each participant must have contributed at least $40 to the NACAA Scholarship Fund by June 30, 2008. (Check with your State Scholarship Committee Chair to confirm this prior to submitting an application. (If one person within the group has not contributed $40 by June 30th, it disqualifies the entire group).
3. Study or training (1) must start within one year of the 2004 AM/PIC (July 28, 2004) or by the 2005 AM/PIC following the AM/PIC (July 28, 2005), & (2) cannot be initiated before the application is approved by the Scholarship Selection Committee & the Trustees of the NACAA Educational Foundation (July 28, 2004).
4. Must describe in detail the training and how it will help improve the competency of the Extension professional.
5. Award is for individual or group professional improvement which may include advanced degrees, graduate credits, tours, seminars, research or
other specialized training.
6. Maximum scholarship is $1000 per year, & a total of $2,000 during a member's Extension career. (This amount includes scholarships received as
an individual or as part of a group.)
7. Scholarship funds will not be awarded until 30 days prior to study or training begins. It is the recipient’s responsibility to advise the National
Scholarship Chair if impending date of educational activity changes.
8. Report must be made to National Scholarship Chair within 30 days after the training is completed. That report must include a 75-word abstract
of the approved educational activity and documentation that the expenses were spent according to the stated educational objectives of the
application. The penalty for misuse of NACAA Scholarship Funds is repayment of the funds to NACAA & prohibition from future NACAA
Scholarships.
9. Recipients will be selected by the Scholarship Selection Committee with final approval of the Trustees, NACAA Educational Foundation.
10. No scholarship will be awarded a person, if as a result of such grant, any member of the Scholarship Selection Committee, National Board of
NACAA, or any Trustee of the Foundation shall derive a private benefit, either directly or indirectly.
11. Selection for NACAA Scholarships shall be made on an objective & nondiscriminatory basis, regardless of race, creed, color, gender, or religion of the applicant.