To become an AAJA member, see: http://www.aaja.org/html/membership/membership_app.html

The AAJA-NY Chapter every year has some stipends to help members attend the AAJA or UNITY national conventions.

All stipend recipients are expected to volunteer during and AFTER the convention. This includes signing up for 6 hours of on-site volunteer time during the convention.

Stipend awards will range from $250 to $700 depending on the stipend committeeês decision. Special consideration will be given to students and active chapter volunteers.

IMPORTANT POLICY: if you have already received two previous convention-related stipends from the chapter in the last five years, you are not eligible to apply. All stipend recipients must be members of the New York chapter.

Deadline: applications for the 2008 convention must be RECEIVED BY May 24, 2008.

Click here for an application.

Students or recent graduates who have been accepted into an unpaid/low-paid internship are eligible for grants of $300 to $1,000 depending on the applicant's qualifications. Recipients must be AAJA-NY student members.

Deadline: Ongoing basis

For an application, click here.

AAJA-NY will award up to $5,000 in scholarships total to one or more graduating seniors from the New York area (NJ, NY and Conn. HS students invited to apply). Awardees must plan to attend college and pursue a career in journalism.

Applicants do not have to be members of AAJA to qualify.

Deadline: May 16, 2007
Click here for an application.

(Donations to the AAJA-NY High School Scholarship Fund are welcome; please e-mail aajanyc@hotmail.com for details)

A stipend is available to chapter members to help cover tuition costs to attend AAJA National's Executive Leadership Program, an intensive, weeklong training program held once a year in March. This program is designed to help Asian Americans rise to the top in newsrooms.

Deadline: The 2006 deadline has passed; please check back in December for details on the 2007 program. For more information on ELP, please see this link: http://www.aaja.org/html/programs_html/programs_executive.html

The AAJA-NY chapter mentorship program is is a stellar chance to get advice, to have your stories or broadcast tapes looked over with a professional eye, or to get pep talks when your job is getting you down.

If you are a student or journalist just starting out (tri-state area only, please) and you want a print or broadcast reporter to be your mentor, download an application and send it to the mentorship program coordinator.

The mentorship program begins accepting members in October and matches up mentors with their proteges in November.

• Walden Siew, a reporter with Bloomberg News, received a stipend to pay for the tuition costs to attend the AAJA 2004 Executive Leadership Program.
• Alyssa Lauren Acuna received $725 in March 2004 towards her internship at Fox-5.
• Adelle Sussmann was the winner of the WPIX internship; she will be interning at Channel 11 in summer 2004.

• Edwin Acevedo, a reporter at the Syracuse Post-Standard, received a stipend to pay for the tuition costs to attend the AAJA 2003 Executive Leadership Program.
• Jennifer Abbasi was awarded a stipend to help her participate in an internship at InStyle magazine in 2003.
• Kevin Kim was awarded a stipend to help him participate in an internship at The Nation in the fall of 2002.