ELIGIBILITY PERIOD
March 2, 2023 — December 31, 2023
ENTRY DEADLINE
February 12, 2024
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Regional EMMY® AWARDS
Ceremony
October 26, 2024
Overland Park Convention Center, KS
MISSION
NATAS Mid-America's Foundation provides scholarships to deserving high school and college students planning to major in journalism, broadcast television, television production and communications. Our mission is to reward academic excellence by helping bring the most talented new people into our industry.
LEGACY GIVING
Legacy giving to NATAS Mid-America's Foundation can include naming and endowment opportunities, as well as charitable trusts, real estate, life insurance or 401K beneficiary designations. Generous one-time or sustaining gifts support a new generation of driven television professionals who are inspired by the same ideals that brought our chapter's current members into the business.Your generosity funds financial aid that makes the difference! All contributions to our 501(c)(3) foundation can be tax-deductible.
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
The Walter Cronkite Scholarship is open to broadcast journalism applicants, while our new Creative Arts Scholarship is for those pursuing TV careers outside the newsroom. College undergraduates, as well as high school seniors in a school in the Mid-America region who have an interest in media studies and have been accepted at a college as a media, journalism, or mass communication major are eligible to apply.
We are also pleased to offer a continuing education grant for television professionals looking to re-skill and enhance their talents.
STUDENTS
Professionals
Past Mid-america Scholarship Recipients include regional Emmy® nominees.
DONATE
Education is expensive. Your contribution helps us offer scholarships that keep up with tuition costs. Please consider a one time, or sustaining donation.
THROUGH PAYPAL
PayPal makes it convenient to make immediate one-time donations or recurring monthly and annual contributions
BY MAIL
To make a scholarship fund donation by check, made out to NATAS MID-AMERICA FOUNDATION, please mail to:
NATAS Mid-America Foundation
3655 Olive Street
St. Louis, MO 63108
Contributions are tax deductible.
The Foundation is the charitable arm of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)-Mid-America Chapter, Inc. and is a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Upon receipt, an acknowledgement letter of the donation will be mailed to the donor.