NEMA is pleased to offer several scholarship opportunities to make the annual conference more financially accessible. Scholarship awards support travel, lodging, and three-day registration for individual members of NEMA and employees of NEMA institutional members.

NEMA Professional Development Award
Established to make the annual conference financially accessible. It helps support travel, lodging and registration for Individual Members of NEMA and employees of NEMA Institutional Members at the NEMA Annual Conference. Awards of up to $300 are available depending on the availability of funds in any given year. It is expected that recipients and/or their institution will provide some of the costs of attending the annual conference.

The Laura B. Roberts Scholarship
This $500 stipend is awarded to support travel, lodging and registration. Priority for this scholarship will be given to graduates of the Tufts Certificate, Bank Street Museum Leadership, and Cooperstown programs. This scholarship has been provided with support from Laura B. Roberts.

University Products Curatorial Fellowship
The Curators Professional Affinity Group, with support from University Products, provides a $300 stipend for Individual Members of NEMA and employees of NEMA Institutional Members to be used for a three-day conference registration. Any curator who has worked in the field five years or less, and works for an institution with an annual budget of $250,000 or less, is eligible for the award.

Diversity Fellowship, Sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University
The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University provides a $500 fellowship to a culturally diverse museum professional to attend the NEMA annual conference. NEMA members from diverse social, economic, racial, or ethnic backgrounds whose attendance at the conference will benefit their museum and whose commitment to museum work will be reinforced by their participation are encouraged to apply. Applicants must register for the entire conference. The stipend may be used to fund registration, travel, lodging, and food.

The deadline for all scholarship programs is September 15, 2014. Complete guidelines and application forms will be available on the NEMA website in late August.

Applicants will be considered for all scholarships for which they are eligible. Applicants for the three named scholarships who are not successful will automatically be considered for the NEMA Professional Development Fund.