Wyoming Chamber Partnership
Scholarship Program
Application Instructions
Purpose:
The purpose of the Wyoming Chamber Partnership (WCP) Scholarship Program is to assist professional chamber of commerce staff and those directly involved with the chamber of commerce efforts in their communities with training costs that promote their professional development. This program is intended to be a benefit of membership in WCP.
Funding:
Each year WCP will provide scholarships to assist qualified members of the organization with professional training. Scholarship funding may be applied to program tuition and/or travel expenses. Funding for the WCP Scholarship Program is provided through the Wyoming Business Council and WCP. Scholarships will be limited to one per organization, per year. Additional scholarships can be funded at the discretion of the WCP Board. The Scholarship Program is limited to available funding on a first-come, first-served basis.
Program Eligibility:
Participation in the WCP Scholarship Program is limited to members of WCP. The scholarships are provided to Wyoming members actively working in a chamber of commerce as paid professional staff or in smaller Wyoming communities without full-time paid chamber of commerce staff, for designated persons involved in local community chamber of commerce activities. Priority will be placed on first time paid chamber of commerce staff to develop their professional chamber of commerce skills. Eligible training programs include ACCE, NAMD, Institute for Organizational Management, Leadership Wyoming and others as approved by WCP. Additional training programs may be eligible for consideration with adequate justification of the training’s benefits to the community and state.
Eligible Expenditures:
Scholarship awards are designated to cover program tuition expenses. Expenses eligible for reimbursement through the WCP Scholarship Program are limited to tuition or registration fees, including training materials. Tuition/registration expenses may be prepaid directly by WCP to the educational organization, upon request, or reimbursed upon completion of the training via submission of the Final Report.
Other expenses that are specific to a particular training program and not covered above require prior written authorization from the WCP Training and Scholarship Committee, which is made up of WCP’s Executive Board.
Application Process:
The organization requesting a WCP Scholarship must complete and submit a scholarship application form to WCP for approval at least 45 days prior to the starting date of the training program they are applying for. If applying for prepayment of tuition/registration fees, an original registration form must be submitted with this application. If applying for expense reimbursement, please include registration costs and estimated travel expenses in the “Itemized Request” section of your application. This application must also include a letter from the sponsoring chamber’s Board of Directors supporting the individual participant’s training. Expenses will be reimbursed upon receipt of paid invoices.
Required Reporting:
Participants in the Scholarship Program are required to summarize their learning experience. Summaries may either be submitted for WCP’s Newsletter or may be given as a “training update” during Fall Conference or Winter Conference.
Wyoming Leadership Class:
WCP will cover tuition to the Wyoming Leadership Class for the Board President following their term.
Click on the link below to view the scholarship form, fill it out, print it and send it to:
Wyoming Chamber Partnership
P O Box 1463
Cody, WY 82414
Scholarship Form
