2025 Conference Scholarship

The 2025 Conference Scholarship, funded by a generous grant from the Lavelle Fund, will provide funding for nine (9) conference scholarship awards of up to $1,500 (covering your registration fee and 3 nights of your hotel stay) to attend next year’s 2025 Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

Selection Criteria:

• Applicants must be the CEO/Executive Director of a VSA member organization and membership must be current.
• Annual operating expenses of your organization must be less than $1.5 million OR you can provide evidence that your organization’s facilities and/or programs were significantly affected by this year’s recent hurricanes.
• All applicants including previous conference scholarship recipients are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to first-time applicants.

The 2025 application deadline for submission is March 3, 2025. Learn more and apply.