AMHS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

As many of our AMHS members likely know, our organization awards two $4,000 scholarships each year, one to each of two highly qualified students. The AMHS provides $4,000, an amount which is matched by the National Italian American Foundation. The winning applicants must meet the collective criteria of both the NIAF and the AMHS. Dedicated staff at NIAF carry out the initial screening of the applicants, ensuring that only those applicants who meet the two organizations’ criteria and whose documentation supports their application make it through the first pass.

The qualified applications are then forwarded to the AMHS Scholarship Committee, which further evaluates them and selects the winners of the two scholarships on the basis of majority vote. The entire process begins in January with the opening of the application period for academic year 2017-2018, which this year closed on March 1st. NIAF then does its review and forwards the results to the AMHS Scholarship Committee sometime in April. The Committee then gets down to the business of selecting winners and notifying the NIAF of its decision as early as possible in May

Recently, on March 28, AMHS President Maria D’AndreaYothers headed over to NIAF headquarters to deliver the organization’s $4,000 check to NIAF Director of Programs, Gabriella Mileti and Julia Streisfeld, Associate Director of Programs, carrying out what has become a symbolic step in the scholarship process. Unfortunately, our esteemed Scholarship Committee Chair, Ray LaVerghetta, got tied up in a rather messy commute and was unable to join Maria in the presentation of the check to NIAF. Readers of the Notiziario should be able to read about the winning applicants in the next edition.