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IFMA Foundation Announces Certificate Program Scholarship Program

HOUSTON, March 1, 2005—The IFMA Foundation announces the creation of a new scholarship program that awards $1,000 scholarships for non-degreed, professional certificate programs.

Scholarships will be awarded to students pursuing careers in facility management or related fields.

Recipients also will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the International Facility Management Association’s (IFMA) World Workplace Convention and 25-year anniversary party in Philadelphia this October.

“We feel the new certificate scholarship program will provide facility managers with both excellent networking opportunities and a chance to learn more about their chosen professions in the built environment,” says IFMA Foundation Chair Sam W. Davidson, CFM.

IFMA Foundation already provides scholarships to students attending colleges and universities that offer facility management degree programs.

Davidson says the IFMA Foundation wanted to expand the scope of its program by providing facility managers already working in the “built environment” a chance to develop their careers with appropriate educational opportunities.

“Providing scholarships is just one way the IFMA Foundation fulfills its mission to identify, fund and promote education and research for the advancement of facility management,” he says.

Scholarships are funded by local IFMA chapters as well as by councils, chapters, corporations, individuals and the IFMA Foundation. The Silicon Valley Chapter of IFMA is the first to sponsor the certificate program scholarship with a $35,000 endowment earmarked to provide funds annually for a certificate program scholarship. The East Bay Chapter of IFMA will also sponsor a one-time certificate program scholarship in the program’s inaugural year.

Applicants are solicited world-wide each spring and awarded each October during IFMA’s World Workplace. An application for the new program and IFMA Foundation’s existing scholarship program, as well as information about sponsoring a scholarship, is available at http://www.ifmafoundation.org/scholarships.htm.

Established in 1990 as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation, and separate entity from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), the IFMA Foundation works for the public good to promote priority research and educational opportunities for the advancement of facility management. The IFMA Foundation is supported by the generosity of the FM community including IFMA members, chapters, councils, corporate sponsors and private contributors who share the belief that education and research improve the FM profession. To learn more about the good works of the IFMA Foundation, visit www.ifmafoundation.org.