IAJGS Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Committee 2016 and Call for Applications

[Marlis Humphrey marlis@vitreouscom.com]

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The IAJGS Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Committee for 2016 has been
established. The purpose of the committee is to review the grant
applications and recommend the 2016 IAJGS Achievement Award recipients.
The Committee members include:

Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Committee 2016:
Mark Halpern (Chair) (Pennsylvania, USA)
Daniel Dratwa (Brussels, Belgium)
Emily Garber (Arizona, USA)

The call for applications is now open. The purpose of the Rabbi Malcolm
Stern Grant and John Stedman Memorial Fund Award is to encourage
non-profit institutions or organizations, Jewish or not, to pursue
projects, activities and acquisitions that provide new or enhanced
resources to benefit Jewish genealogists. The Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant
honors Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, widely considered to be the dean of
American Jewish genealogy, and his efforts to increase the availability
of resources for Jewish genealogical research. The available grant is in
the amount of $3,000 USD, subject to board and membership approval.
Additionally, the IAJGS received a grant from the estate of Jon Stedman
to honor his late father, John Stedman, an avid and accomplished
genealogist. A special $3,000 USD grant will also be available in the
memory of John Stedman under the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant for 2016.

These grants are recommended by the Committee and must be approved by
the IAJGS board of directors and the IAJGS membership at the IAJGS
Annual Meeting held during the annual IAJGS conference. The grants are
announced at the annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy www.iajgs2016.org.

Nominations may be made by an individual or group, IAJGS member society
or non-member, or self nominated. The Committee can proactively pursue
additional nominees. Please refer to

http://www.iajgs.org/blog/awards/iajgs-award-nominations/
for the Nomination Rules and Grant Criteria. At

http://www.iajgs.org/blog/awards/rabbi-malcolm-stern-grant/
there is a list of past Grant Award recipients. At

http://www.iajgs.org/blog/awards/stern-nomination-form/
is the Grant Nomination Form.

The deadline for submission of the Grant Nomination Form and supporting
documentation is May 26, 2016 at 7pm EDT.

Marlis Humphrey, IAJGS President
on behalf of the IAJGS Board of Directors
pres...@iajgs.org
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36th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy 7-12 August 2016.

Registration opens 3 January 2016, early registration runs until April 30.
www.iajgs2016.org
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