Silverhill Institute

Posted 2011/12/08

TAC Foundation Scholarships - 2012

Posted 2011/12/08

The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Foundation is pleased to once again offer its Scholarship Program to support and encourage bright, young students pursuing a career in transportation.  In 2011, the program was bigger and better than ever, offering 46 scholarships with a total value of $164,500.  Since its inception over 220 scholarships worth more than $900,000 have been awarded.

We are asking for your help in promoting TAC Foundation scholarships to students in transportation-related programs at your institution by:

• Printing and posting copies of the TAC Foundation Scholarship Program posterin locations where potential applicants will see them
• Specifically approaching students that you feel may be interested and encouraging them to apply
• Forwarding this email to students in transportation-related programs of study

The application deadline is February 13, 2012. 

Full details and application formsfor the 2012 TAC Foundation Scholarship Program are online at www.tac-foundation.ca . 

Please feel welcome to Erica Andersen, Secretary-Treasurer of the TAC Foundation and Director, Member Services & Communications of TAC, at foundation@tac-atc.ca if you have questions or comments to offer about the TAC Foundation or its programs.  Our sincere thanks for your assistance with our Scholarship Program!

Tim Holyoke

President

TAC Foundation

Canadian Friends of Peace Now

2012 Peace Fellowship

Posted 2011/12/08

Canadian Friends of Peace Now offers its 2012 Peace Fellowship in the amount of $4,000
for a deserving graduate student at any Canadian university, or for a deserving
Canadian graduate student at any foreign university, whose research is consistent with
the mission, goals and values of Peace Now, in particular with its advocacy of a
Palestinian-Israeli peace based upon mutual recognition, a secure, viable state for the
Palestinians and a secure, Jewish state for the Israelis.
Preference will be given to Doctoral and Masters students who are writing dissertations/
theses on such subjects as diplomacy in the service of Arab-Israel peace-making, economic
co-operation between Israel and the Palestinians, educational reforms in Arab
and Israeli curricula that would foster reconciliation, grassroots activities promoting
support for government peace policies, medical/health programs to attenuate the physical
and psychological effects of war, etc. The preceding list is illustrative rather than
comprehensive.
Students from such disciplines as political science, international relations, economics, business, education,
history, psychology, sociology, environmental science, social work, public health and law are eligible, as well
as students from other disciplines whose research is relevant to, and consistent with, the aims of Peace Now.
Applicants should submit a cover letter, a C.V., a five-page summary of their dissertation/thesis and two letters
of recommendation, one of which must come from the dissertation/thesis supervisor.
The fellowship recipient will provide a photo that CFPN can use in publicizing the award at the time that it
is announced. The recipient will permit CFPN to publish a summary of the dissertation/thesis on the CFPN
web site and will agree to provide a copy of the full study to CFPN upon completion.
Deadline for application is March 3, 2012.
The recipient will be announced on April 20, 2012.
For further information phone 416-322-5559 or e-mail at:
info@peacenowcanada.org.
Mail or e-mail applications with supporting documentation to:
Fellowship,  CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW,
119-660 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 517, Toronto, Ontario M4G 2K2 

416-322-5559(p)     416-322-5587(fx)
1-866-405-5387