Margaret McNamara Educational Grants (US/Canada Program)
(formerly, Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund scholarships)
Course(s) Offered: Any champaign of study
Course Level: Postgraduate (masters, PhD, Postdoctoral, research)
Provider: World Bank Group/World Bank Family Network.
Country to Study in: USA, Canada
Scholarship Description
The Margaret McNamara Educational Grants (MMEG) scholarships for woman somebody students from developing countries are for immature women enrolled full-time to written report inward the U.S. or Canada.
The MMEG scholarships furnish grants to women from developing countries to help farther their educational activity in addition to strengthen their leadership skills to ameliorate the lives of women in addition to children inward developing countries.
Applicants for the MMEG scholarships are screened past times an all-volunteer, independent option committee, in addition to grants are awarded past times the Board of Directors past times Apr every year. However, applications start mid-September the twelvemonth before.
Eligibility Criteria
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 adult woman is eligible to apply for an MMEG grant if she meets all the next criteria below.
General eligibility:
Applicants must run into the next eligibility criteria:
(formerly, Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund scholarships)
Course(s) Offered: Any champaign of study
Course Level: Postgraduate (masters, PhD, Postdoctoral, research)
Provider: World Bank Group/World Bank Family Network.
Country to Study in: USA, Canada
Scholarship Description
The Margaret McNamara Educational Grants (MMEG) scholarships for woman somebody students from developing countries are for immature women enrolled full-time to written report inward the U.S. or Canada.
The MMEG scholarships furnish grants to women from developing countries to help farther their educational activity in addition to strengthen their leadership skills to ameliorate the lives of women in addition to children inward developing countries.
Applicants for the MMEG scholarships are screened past times an all-volunteer, independent option committee, in addition to grants are awarded past times the Board of Directors past times Apr every year. However, applications start mid-September the twelvemonth before.
Eligibility Criteria
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 adult woman is eligible to apply for an MMEG grant if she meets all the next criteria below.
General eligibility:
Applicants must run into the next eligibility criteria:
- Be at to the lowest degree 25 years old at fourth dimension of application deadline (see specific regional computer program application below);
- Be a national of a terra firma listed on the MMEG Country Eligibility List;
- Be enrolled (not only accepted) at an accredited academic establishment when submitting application; in addition to conception to move enrolled for a total academic term later accolade of the grant past times the Board;
- Not move related to a World Bank Group, IMF or Inter-American Development Bank staff fellow member or spouse;
In add-on to the to a higher house criteria, an applicant must:
- already move enrolled every bit a total fourth dimension student, alongside relevant pupil visa inward national passport, in addition to conception to buy the farm along studying total fourth dimension inward the next academic year;
- not concur U.S. of A. citizenship or permanent residency (green card) or Canadian citizenship or Canadian landed immigrant condition
Criteria:
MMEG awards educational activity grants on a competitive reason to special women from developing countries who are enrolled every bit full-time students for the next academic term inward accredited universities inward the U.S. in addition to Canada, have demonstrated fiscal involve in addition to are committed to working for the well-being of women in addition to children.
Eligible Groups
Citizens of Developing countries (see the MMEG Country Eligibility List)
Participating Institutions
Any accredited establishment of higher learning inward the USA and/or Canada
Sponsorship Duration
The grant is a onetime award to concluding for the total duration of your study
Scholarship benefits
Grants of upwardly to US$15,000 are awarded inward the US/Canada program, in addition to US$7,000 inward the Africa, Latin America in addition to Trinity programs. Grant amounts may vary, based on telephone substitution rates in addition to availability of funds.
Method of Application
Remember to read the Application Checklist in addition to the FAQs earlier applying, in addition to take away the "US-Canada program" inward the showtime query of the application. If the computer program advert does non appear, the computer program may move shut to novel applications. Ensure to submit ALL requested documents. Only consummate applications volition move accepted.
DEADLINES:
Applications are accepted betwixt September xv - Jan 15. Applications for the academic twelvemonth 2018/2019 is opened upwardly from Friday, September 15th 2017 until Monday, Jan 15th, 2018
PLEASE NOTE:
The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) was founded inward 1981 to honour the retentiveness of Margaret Craig McNamara (1915-1981), the married adult woman of Robert S. McNamara, President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. In 2005 the MMMF began exploring ways to expand its scholarship computer program to include written report inward developing terra firma universities. Between 2007-2010, airplane pilot grants were awarded to xv students studying inward South Africa.
Application Deadline: xv Jan 2018
Open to International Applicants: Yes
More Scholarship Information in addition to Application
Related: MMEG Scholarships inward Africa
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