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Scholarships and Grants
Apra-MN is pleased to offer scholarships and professional development giveaways to its members to cover the cost of attendance at the local conference, the annual Apra International conference, and other professional development opportunities that arise.
You must be an Apra-MN member and recipients can only receive one scholarship and giveaway per year. If there are more applicants than scholarships available, the board or an independent selection committee will randomly select recipients.
Keep an eye out each month for calls to apply for Professional Development Giveaways and for scholarships to the APRA-MN local conference and the APRA International conference.
Apra International PD Conference Scholarship
For Apra International, we offered two Virtual Registrations to the Apra PD conference taking place on July 27-29. This year's PD conference includes in-person and virtual content, but Apra-MN chose to fund two virtual registrations. You can check out what a virtual registration entails on the Apra website. Congratulations to our winners, Andrea Dowd and Christy Baker.
Apra-MN Conference Scholarship
Apra-MN offered two in-person and one virtual scholarship to the local Apra-MN conference on October 13, 2022. All current Apra-MN members were eligible to apply by filling out the scholarship submission form. Scholarship submissions were due September 5th, and winners were notified September 6th.
Apra-MN Professional Development Giveaways
Grants/Giveways: Apra-MN is moving away from open-ended grants to professional development giveaways for the rest of 2022. Our prior grant process had very few applicants and was not the best use of our professional development funds, reaching only a tiny subset of our members. Going forward, we've decided that each month, we will offer a giveaway - we'll choose an item, a webinar, a training, or any other professional development item and offer it to our members in a giveaway. This should get more items into more hands! Keep an eye on the Networker each month to see what item we're giving away and to get a link to submit your name!
2023 Giveaway information is coming soon!
If you have item suggestions for future giveaways, let us know!
Scholarship FAQs
How are giveaways awarded?
Giveaways and scholarships are awarded randomly based on a drawing of names. After ensuring Apra-MN membership is up-to-date, Apra-MN will notify recipients and set plans to cover the expense or order the giveaway item.
Apply! Grant announcements are made in the Apra-MN Connections newsletter. Specific deadlines and timelines of the award will be communicated to the membership for each scholarship.
Contact Joe Hennen, Apra-MN Vice President.
Past Recipients
2022
- Jaclyn O'Grady
- Andrea Dowd
- Christy Baker
- Shanna Ames
- Margo Abramson
- Chris Skarstad
- Adam Stenstrom
- Jo Theodosopoulos
- Stefanie Otteson
- Kim Follett
2021
- Penny Anderson, 360 Communities: to help cover costs for Six Sigma Training.
- Mary Wolff, St. John's University School of Theology: to help pay for CRM training.
- Don Irwin, Lutheran Social Services: to help cover costs for a CRFE application and exam.
- Carrie Gess, University of Northwestern St. Paul: to help pay for publications for use.
- Susan Hill, St. Olaf College: to help pay for costs to attend the virtual Case DRIVE Conference.
2020
- Lydia Tonoyan, Union Gospel Mission
- Laura Brown, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
- Patricia Johnson, Consultant
- Christy Baker, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Jessica Hennek - Animal Humane Society
- Mary Wolff - Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary