Grants to Pay for Travel or Conferences in Texas

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Current stats from a survey sponsored by the Texas Tourism Division showed that more than 186 million individuals from the United States traveled to Texas in 2009. Becoming the 2nd biggest state in the region, Texas is a leader in meetings, association conferences and workshops. Several skilled associations, organizations and firms maintain meetings for their members or interested events, and funding is accessible to aid shell out for journeys to meetings in Texas. Most associations keeping meetings also supply grants or travel stipends for travel to the conference.

Texas Floodplain Management Association

The Texas Floodplain Management Association (TFMA) gives different travel grants to the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) yearly conference. 5 grants for $1,000 are awarded to presenters at the countrywide conference. 1 grant for $2,500 is awarded to an official from a tiny metropolis to show up at the nationwide conference. 1 grant up to $2,500 is awarded to the TFMA Floodplain Manager of the Year for travel to the following year's ASFPM Yearly Conference. Fiver grants for $2,500 are awarded for the travel to the TFMA Conference. Grant deadlines fluctuate each year.

Texas Floodplain Management Association
P.O. Box 90367
Austin, TX 78709
512-858-7302
tfma.org

Texas Library Association

The Texas Library Association (TLA) offers travel and conference grants by means of Many plans. The Automation and Engineering Spherical Table (ATRT) awards 1 conference stipend yearly for travel to the TLA Conference. Library staff that are concerned in library automation and Technologies companies are qualified to utilize. The grant volume is $700. The Younger Grownup Spherical Table (YART) will award 2 stipends each year to a library media expert that works in the Youthful Grownup Department for $500. This grant should be utilized for travel to the yearly TLA Conference. The Escue Yearly Conference Stipend is awarded straight from the TLA to a paraprofessional for travel to the TLA Conference. This grant is $250. Deadlines differ by plan and year.

Texas Library Association
335Five Bee Cave Street
Suite 401
Austin, Texas 78746
512-328-1518
txla.org

Charles A. Dana Middle at the University of Texas in Austin

The Charles A. Dana Middle at the University of Texas in Austin awards scholarships and travel grants in the quantity of $1,000 to teachers in little college districts in Texas. The Dana Middle obtained funding from the Higher Texas Basis which produced it feasible to supply teachers the chance to use for funding to go to an AMDM workshop or institute. The regular price for the workshops for teachers sponsored by the AMDM is $1,500, with a $1,000 grant, the teacher will only spend $500. Deadlines fluctuate each year.

Charles A. Dana Middle
University of Texas in Austin
1616 Guadalupe Road, Suite 3.206
Austin, TX 78701
512-471-6190
austin.utexas.edu