WASHINGTON—AHLA Basis, the charitable arm of the American Resort and Lodging Affiliation, launched a brand new platform to streamline its scholarship software course of. The platform not solely improves the person expertise, however features a built-in eligibility evaluation that permits college students to entry each Basis-hosted alternative for which they qualify.
The Basis has supported rising hospitality expertise by means of particular person donors and companies, contributing practically $17 million to eligible college students throughout the USA to this point.
“The AHLA Basis has been dedicated to supporting hospitality college students for 70 years,” stated Anna Blue, president of AHLA Basis. “Rising entry to assets and alternatives is a vital funding sooner or later expertise of our business.”
The brand new system will enable college students to use for a number of scholarship alternatives in a single software. The AHLA Basis Educational Scholarship Program consists of funds offered by the AHLAF Common 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 Inns, 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.
This new portal permits AHLA Basis to handle eight different scholarship alternatives as effectively:
- Hyatt Inns Fund for Minority Lodging Administration College students
- Rama Scholarship for the American Dream Program
- American Categorical Scholarship Program
- Ecolab Scholarship Program
- Karl Mehlmann Scholarship
- Banks Brown Graduate Scholarship Program
- Arthur J. Packard Memorial Scholarship Program
- Stephen P. Holmes Scholarship
The Basis additionally manages the Incoming Freshman Scholarship, which awards PepsiCo Basis and ALIS Scholarships, and the Opening Doorways to Alternative Scholarship, which awards the Minaz Abji Scholarship.
