Professional Development Grant
QVA provides professional development grants to highly-motivated LGBTQ+ students with financial need who have opportunities to attend professional conferences. This grant can support any kind of program costs, as well as travel, lodging, food, and purchase of professional attire. Winners of this grant usually receive in the range of ~$500 to ~$1,000.
Current undergraduate and graduate students who attend the University of Virginia on a full-time basis can apply for a grant. Special attention is given to conferences where UVA is underrepresented in attendance, with initial focuses being on engineering, technology, business, and marketing through the established O4U and oSTEM suite of conferences, with exploration of other conferences. Recipients can re-apply for a grant one year after receiving a grant. Non-recipients may re-apply with an updated application each semester. Students may receive multiple different types of grants or awards within one year.
Awarded funds will either be applied directly to the student’s account by the Student Financial Services office or be sent directly to students. For questions about the grant application, or in cases of unexpected and urgent financial need, please email
Blair@queervirginia.org
To help us make a grant decision, we ask for your permission to work with Student Financial Services to understand your full set of aid. Please go to this website, https://virginia.academicworks.com/users/sign_in, complete Net Badge authentication, and click on “Sign In With Your Institution”. Then click on “My Applications” and complete the two-question General Application to release your records to us.
When completing this form, please be aware that requests are evaluated and awarded monthly and applicants will be notified of a decision two weeks after a monthly application review deadline has passed. The application review deadlines for the 2024-2025 school year are as follows:
9/4/24,
9/26/24,
10/24/24,
11/11/24,
1/30/25,
2/27/25,
3/27/25,
4/24/25.