How can we best leverage our unique skills and our own personal networks to help others? In this issue, you'll read about a project manager who is using his professional talents to support a local nonprofit organization, no matter what needs may arise.

Scholarships Available!

Thank you for helping to make a difference in the lives of others!

Sincerely,

Your friends at the PMI Educational Foundation

pmief@pmi.org

Volunteers and Nonprofit Organizations:  In what additional ways can you leverage the professional skills of project management to advance the mission of local nonprofits?

Fred Barrett, PMP, PMI Chicagoland Chapter PMIEF Liaison, has found creative ways to do more.  For the past year he has managed a partnership between his PMI Chapter and Ladies of Virtue (LOV), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of young women ages 10 to 18 who are living in under-served Chicago-area (USA) communities. 

Through their partnership, the PMI Chicagoland Chapter has been training LOV's young women in project management and serving as Project Advisers to participants in LOV's youth-led service learning program.  

A LOV participant at a mentoring session.

After several months of mentoring at this nonprofit, Fred volunteered to serve the organization in a second capacity supporting their fundraising efforts by writing a letter of recommendation to accompany this nonprofit's grant applications. 

Recently, Fred's letter of recommendation helped LOV secure grant funds from Imani Pearls Community Development Foundation.  The PMI Educational Foundation congratulates Fred, the PMI Chicagoland Chapter volunteers, and LOV on their accomplishments!  

Often volunteers engage with nonprofit organizations to support them in one capacity and then transition into new roles.  Have you used your professional skills to help a nonprofit organization and, if so, how? Have you also seen a transition in your volunteer role over time, and if so, in what ways?  Please share your story by e-mailing us at: pmief@pmi.org.  

Do you know a student who might be eligible to earn scholarships to support his/her studies? 

University students currently studying or planning to study fields related to project management at accredited colleges and universities are eligible to apply for the following scholarships:

• Dr. Harold Kerzner Scholarship
• The Gaylord E. (Gary) Christle Scholarship
• The Matthew H. Parry Memorial Scholarship (undergraduate studies)
• The Robert J. Yourzak Scholarship
• The PMI Eric Jenett Founders Scholarship
• The PMI Eric Jenett Memorial Fellows Scholarship (graduate studies) 
• Ray Piper Global PM Education Scholarship
• The PMI IS CoP Global Scholarship Fund 

Unless otherwise noted, these scholarship opportunities are available to students at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.

Once a student applies for a scholarship, his/her application will automatically be reviewed for all other scholarships for which s/he are eligible. Dozens of other PMIEF scholarships are also available. 

Scholarship Quick Links:

• Tips for Applying
• Application Instructions

Apply Today!  - 1 June Deadline

Last Chance!  Nominations are due 15 May 2013.

Help us to recognize an outstanding project manager by nominating him or her for The Kerzner Award.  The Kerzner Award recipient will receive:

• IIL training valued at US$5,000 
• An all expenses-paid trip to the 2013 PMI Global Congress - North America
• If applicable, a gift of US$3,000 to the recipient's PMI chapter

You can nominate yourself or someone else. Print or email this flyer to tell others about the award today!

Many thanks to The Kerzner Award sponsor, the International Institute for Learning (IIL).