Scholarships

The National Community Tax Coalition, a project of the Center for Economic Progress is able to provide a limited number of registration scholarships for community-based tax preparation programs. We no longer have scholarships available for airfare, mileage, or hotel accommodations.

Please note that the National Community Tax Coalition is partnering with a number of supporters to provide scholarships to the field, however NCTC cannot guarantee that all scholarship requests will be granted. Also, due to the fast turn around required, NCTC will review and approve scholarships as applications are submitted by the deadline mentioned below. Please pay particular attention to the application criteria and the fast-approaching deadline.

Criteria

The criteria that the National Community Tax Coalition will use to determine successful scholarship applications are the following:

• Applicant is a paid affiliate of the National Community Tax Coalition; or
• Applicant is a student concentrating on economic development in low-moderate income communities; or
• Applicant represents a community-based tax preparation program that actively participates in National Community Tax Coalition activities (e.g. training or advocacy conference calls, advocacy campaigns, working groups); and
• Applicant can show proof of financial need (i.e. organization budget; project budget);
• Applicant must participate in a 30 minute, scholarship recipient session on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 6:00pm;

Scholarship Deadline

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 – 9:00 am Central – Scholarship applications for registration fees.

Download the application form to find out more and to apply.