Application deadline: October 8, 2007

Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) Foundation Award

THE PROGRAM
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) believes that having a diverse workforce in the U.S. publishing industry--with diversity being broadly defined and including factors such as race, ethnicity, culture, class and disadvantaged background--is important to the vitality of that industry. They have therefore created a fellowship program to encourage such diversity.

MPA offers several fellowships for this Stanford Publishing on the Web Workshop, each of which provides a full financial aid package equal to the amount of tuition and lodging for the Workshop. Fellowships do not include travel costs.

CRITERIA
To qualify for an award, you must be an employee of an MPA-member company, or a member of American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME); and you must currently live and work in the United States. Applicants should be able to bring to discussions a clearly diverse point of view. Applications from African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans and others with diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply, print out and send to MPA at the address below a completed registration form, along with a personal statement that explains how your background would contribute to diversity (broadly defined) in the U.S. magazine publishing industry and how the Fellowship would further enhance those contributions. The application fee is waived for those applying for financial aid. As MPA bases these awards on need as well as on experience and merit, they ask that you diligently seek your organization's paid sponsorship before you apply for this Fellowship. If such paid sponsorship is denied, they ask for a brief memo from a representative in your organization stating that outside tuition assistance is the only means of getting you to the program.