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Application Deadlines

Scholarship applications must be received no later than August 3, 2007. All awardees will be notified the week of September 3, 2007, and have until September 21, 2007, to reply and accept the scholarship. Failure to meet the notification deadline will result in the withdrawal of the scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria

The Scholarship Subcommittee, guided by the criteria listed below, will have sole discretion in the selection of scholarship recipients.

The following criteria will be used to select scholarship recipients. Preference will be given to applicants who meet some or all of these criteria. The more criteria an applicant meets, the higher the chance of obtaining a scholarship.

* Applicant has an opportunity to improve a tobacco control program or activity, plans to do so after the conference, and makes a clear case that the conference will help in this effort.

* Applicant is a new attendee at a tobacco control conference.

* Applicant is a leader or representative of a community-based tobacco control organization, or an organization that can contribute to community tobacco control objectives, with an annual program budget of $50,000 or less.

* Applicant is a leader or representative of an organization whose constituency includes population groups that are currently disproportionately affected by, or underrepresented within, the tobacco control movement.

Persons who have attended previous tobacco control conferences or who are representatives of larger tobacco control agencies or organizations must present convincing evidence of their lack of financial support to attend the National Conference. As an example, this might include evidence of a ban on out-of-State travel by employees of their agency and a lack of other travel support. Representatives from organizations, such as a volunteers or board members, may be eligible for scholarships in addition to staff.

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