WASHINGTON—AHLA Basis introduced the distribution of practically a million {dollars} in scholarship funding for college students at hospitality applications across the nation.
The Basis awarded roughly $944,000 to 369 college students who can be attending 88 completely different schools and universities. AHLA Basis awards two forms of scholarships: self-nominated, through which college students apply on to compete for one in every of eight scholarships no matter the place they attend faculty; and school-nominated, which requires {that a} scholar attend one of many 67 faculties affiliated with the inspiration.
Scholarship awards have been the bedrock of the AHLA Basis since its creation in 1953. The Basis has disbursed greater than $16 million in tutorial scholarships, making training out there to 1000’s of future trade leaders.
“Scholarships are an integral a part of the Basis’s dedication to elevating, educating, and empowering people as they pursue careers within the lodge trade,” mentioned AHLA Basis President Anna Blue. “These scholarships make it attainable for the following technology of leaders to seek out their place in hospitality.”
The AHLA Basis Tutorial Scholarship Program contains funds supplied by the AHLAF Normal Marketing campaign, AHLA Basis Hospitality 2000 Marketing campaign, Americas Lodging Funding Summit (ALIS), AHLAF New Century Fund, the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation, John Clifford Memorial Fund, Cecil B. Day Memorial Fund, Handlery Motels, Conrad N. Hilton Memorial Fund, Creighton Holden Memorial Fund, Hospitality Asset Managers Affiliation, Steve Hymans Prolonged Keep Scholarship, Richard Kessler, J. Willard Marriott Memorial Fund, Joseph McInerney Scholarship, Curtis C. Nelson Fund, and particular person contributions to AHLA Basis’s Annual Giving Fund. Earlier this 12 months, the Basis launched a portal to permit college students to evaluate their eligibility and pursue a number of scholarship alternatives by way of a single software.
AHLA Basis additionally awarded over $30,000 to greater than 20 college students as a part of an incoming freshman scholarship pilot program. Three group schools—Frederick Neighborhood Faculty, Northampton Neighborhood Faculty, and Valencia Colleg—participated within the pilot as a part of an effort to extend curiosity and enrollment inside their respective hospitality applications.
