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Elements of Successful Scholarships iv. Address environmental issues that affect poor, low-income, and underserved

Global grants support graduate-level scholarships for professionals interested in pursuing careers in communities through strategies including resource management, environmental and
community economic development. TRF considers the following when evaluating global grant scholarship conservation studies, resilience planning, and preparedness
applications: b. Careers that will not be considered favorably include general roles in business, engineering,

1. The applicant’s previous work experience in the field of community economic development. or social work, or general administration in a private or corporate environment.
Applicants are expected to demonstrate how their work contributed to the economic well-being of
poor, low-income, or underserved communities at the local, regional, or national level.

2. The academic program’s alignment with community economic development

a. Examples include social science degrees with a focus on community economic development
and business degrees tailored to social business, micro-entrepreneurship, or microcredit
b. Programs that will be favorably considered include those that:

i. Emphasize local, regional, or national economic development strategies

ii. Focus on addressing economic issues of poor, low-income, and underserved
communities

iii. Support social business development, such as a specialized track within a master of
business administration program
iv. Provide a business degree to teach entrepreneurial skills or support startups at the
local, regional, or national level

v. Include “community development” in the name of the program or specialized track

vi. Improve the coaching or advising capability of an individual working with small
businesses or entrepreneurs
vii. Focus on strategies to address environmental issues that affect poor, low-income, and
underserved communities, such as resource management, environmental and
conservation studies, resilience planning, and preparedness
viii. Use urban planning principles to guide economic development strategies

c. Programs that will not be favorably considered include those that:

i. Focus on purely theoretical, macro-level economics, politics, or finance
ii. Support general private business development, such as a master of business
administration for professions unrelated to social enterprise

3. The applicant’s career plans as they relate to community economic development

a. Careers that will be considered favorably include those that:
i. Improve the economic and social well-being of poor, low- income, and underserved
communities at the local, regional, and national level

ii. Are in a nonprofit or social enterprise environment
iii. Support advocacy for economic and social well-being (e.g. for poor communities,
youth, women, indigenous peoples, refugees, and other underserved populations)

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