Professional Development Stipends
Do you want additional money for continuing education? Does the conference workshop seem out of budget? The Georgia Dietetic Foundation (GDF) provides an annual professional development stipend of at least $1000 to at least one Registered Dietitian Nutritionist or Nutrition Dietetic Technician Registered who resides in the state of Georgia. This stipend is applied toward costs associated with a regional, national, or international dietetics or nutrition-related conference or symposium (virtual or in-person).
The conference or symposium must provide continuing education credit acceptable to the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Expenses covered by the stipend include;
- Registration fees
- Travel expenses
- Lodging / Hotels
- Food expenses or
- Additional Workshops as part of a conference you are attending.
Recognition of the professional stipend recipients will occur on the GDF website, in GDF social media, and in the GAND President's Platform (email distribution).
Answer all questions on the application to the best of your ability. If a question is not applicable to your situation, write “not applicable” in the appropriate space.
Upload a typed essay of 500 - 600 words addressed to “Committee Chair” stating:
- Why you selected this specific conference or symposium.
- How attendance of this professional development opportunity will support your short-and long-range professional goals.
- How this educational pursuit will benefit you as a practitioner.
Requirements for recipient(s)*:
- An informative and educational article must be submitted to the Stipend Committee Chair within 90 days of attending your chosen conference/symposium. Goals of the written article are:
- Educate and inform fellow RDNs about the conference or symposium.
- Main body should highlight key information learned from your experience; identify the key speakers, the specific areas that they raised and spoke around, and the key points that came from their presentation and discussion after the presentation.
- Conclusion should cover what was discussed or suggested as a call to action (i.e. change in protocol; impact on current standards of practice).
- Completed expense report including receipts for registration fees, travel, and lodging.
*Funds are released after GDF receives a completed expense report and accepts the article. Revisions requested by the Stipend Committee must be sent within ten days.
All application materials must be uploaded (as a word document or scanned PDF) in the Stipend Application.
NOTE: You will be notified by email when your application packet is received.
Stipend Application
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