Support APCDA: Empowering Career Professionals in the Asia Pacific
As a non-profit, charitable organization committed to enhancing professional development opportunities across the Asia Pacific region. We are pleased to accept tax-deductible donations that directly support scholarships for students and emerging professionals.
Where do we use our donations!
Each year, APCDA gives as many scholarships as we can afford to give. Each scholarship is valued at $100. You will notice that this amount is less than we charge those who pay to attend the conference, but paying ourselves this minimum amount for each scholarship allows us to survive.
We give scholarships to:
1. Emerging Leaders: Students or recent graduates in our field from any country.
2.Student presenters: Students from a Not High-income countries who are accepted as a presenter at our conference.
3. Conflict-zone career practitioners: Although war is chaotic, these professionals find solace in keeping up with their chosen field virtually when they can access the internet.
4. Students in low-income countries: depending on the funds available, we provide scholarships to those who sincerely want to attend.
5. Leaders in Not High-income countries: Many career practitioners who are local leaders, educators, and mentors to new career practitioners need to understand what is happening globally in our field but can’t afford the fees we charge to register.
Source of Scholarship Funds.
We have several sources of funds to cover these scholarships. Some members make a donation when they renew their membership (Thank You!). We occasionally run fundraisers, such as a silent auction at our conference, or an author who donates books for us to sell and lets us keep the income for scholarships. We are also delighted to have the Martha Russell Endowment Fund because an endowment means that only the interest can be spent each year, so an endowment continues to fund scholarships into the future. The donor (Martha Russell’s husband) specified that the interest be spent each year on scholarships for applicants from Not High-income countries.
We need your help in supplementing these resources. Donations of $20 or more are welcome and will be used for immediate scholarships. Donations of $1000 or more may be added to our endowment fund or used immediately on named scholarships (based on the wishes of the donor). Donations of $5000 or more may be used to create a new “named” Endowment Fund, with the name and the restrictions on the use of the interest specified by the donor.
