FREE MONEY! 2008 IPG Application deadline is September 1, 2008. Click on links to the left for application.
 

Attention Certification Grant seekers!  All four Region 4 Certification Grants have been given out for 2008, so no more applications will be accepted this year.  Please see future issues of FourThought and the website for information regarding certification opportunities in 2009.  Please contact the scholarships and grants chair, Andrea Haslage at (614) 833-4709 or andrealena@sbcglobal.net if you have any questions.
 

Congratulations to Kevin Clutter of Hammond, IN who received the fourth and final certification grant from Region 4 this year!  Kevin will be pursuing his Heritage Interpreter certification to help with his volunteer work at the Chicago History Museum.  Best of luck to Kevin and all of our certification grant winners in 2008. 
 

Congratulations to our two $800 National Workshop Grant winners!  Jen Wright, VP of Education at the Kalamazoo Nature Center in Michigan and Amy Roell, Program Supervisor for the Hamilton County Park District near Cincinnati Ohio will be traveling to Portland, Oregon for the 2008 NAI National Workshop!  Thanks to all that applied.  Keep checking the website and FourThought for more grant and scholarship information!