FPA Diversity Scholarship applications to attend FPA Denver 2010 are due August 27!  Scholarship awards include 1-year free FPA membership, admission to FPA Denver 2010 (October 9-12), and some travel expenses.

FPA’s Diversity Committee, a national volunteer workgroup, established this merit-based scholarship program to enable award recipients to attend FPA conferences to collaborate with the FPA community and promote inclusivity and creativity within the financial planning profession.

Criteria for applicants include demonstrating and acting upon an intense desire to affect the diversity of the financial planning profession, including but not limited to:
• Raising awareness of the profession in diverse communities;
• Serving diverse communities with financial planning; 
• Increasing professional opportunities for diverse communities within the financial planning profession.

Winners will be chosen by a sub-committee of FPA’s Diversity Committee.

The Committee’s mission is to develop strategies to raise awareness and promote inclusiveness of diverse communities in the financial planning profession. The Committee believes that the key to serving diverse clients is through a financial planning profession that reflects that diversity itself.

Through these scholarships FPA strives to increase professional opportunities for the widest spectrum of people so that all may join and thrive in the financial planning profession. To learn more about the FPA Diversity Scholarship or to apply for this year’s scholarships, please visit: www.FPAnet.org/Connect/.