The following guidelines will be used by the NAOSMM Awards Committee to determine which applicants will be eligible to receive funding through either the Nalge Nunc International Professional Training Fund Award or the NAOSMM Seminar and Trade Show Attendance Grants.

1. Applicants must be a regular NAOSMM member with current year's dues paid. New members are able and strongly encouraged to apply.
2. Applicants must be currently employed at a stockroom/laboratory-related job or as purchasing agent of laboratory supplies by a university, college, private or corporate institution.
3. Current Executive Board members and Awards Committee members are ineligible.
4. Members who receive full reimbursement from their employer to attend the conference are ineligible.
5. All applications postmarked/faxed by April 14 will be given first consideration for funding. Those postmarked/faxed after April 14 will be considered only if funds become available.
6. Award amounts will vary per applicant's financial need and total funds available. Funds awarded are intended to defray lodging and/or transportation costs incurred by member's attendance. Awards do not cover meals or other incidentals.
7. Recipients of travel funds are required to stay at the official designated conference hotel in order to be reimbursed for hotel expenses. Receipts submitted for reimbursement from non-conference hotels will not be funded.
8. Applicants may now request funding every year. However, those applicants that did not receive funding in the prior year will be given first priority.
9. Recipients of any award must attend at least three FULL days of the Conference. (Example: Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday)
10. Applicants who have been given an award will be notified of the award amount in early June (sooner if possible.)
11. Award checks WILL NOT BE distributed at the conference. Travel Award recipients are required to itemize and submit original receipts to the Awards Chair no later than two weeks following the conference. Checks will be mailed to recipients within two to four weeks after the conference.

Any NAOSMM member who meets these guidelines is encouraged to complete the application for travel funding and return it with the requested paragraph to the interim Awards Committee Chair by April 14 for consideration.