Pedo Delight: LGBT Scholarships Includes Overnights with Staff Members

10/29/2014

Youth OUTright offers scholarships for Creating Change conference

Youth OUTright, WNC, Inc., is offering two scholarships for the 2015 Creating Change conference, which will be held in Denver, Colorado, from February 4-8, 2015. Creating Change is the premier annual organizing and skills-building event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and their allies. The conference is run by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and attracts more than 3,500 people from all over the country every year. Find out more about the conference at creatingchange.org.

Here are the scholarship details…

• All expenses paid! This includes hotel, air fare, meals and conference registration.
• Youth Outright staff accompanies scholarship recipients.
• Scholarship applicants must submit their application electronically, via mail, or in-person at Youth Outright meetings by November 14, 2014 to be eligible.
• Our selection committee will select candidates and schedule interviews with finalists during the week of December 1 – 5.
• Scholarship recipients will be announced by December 10.
• Scholarship recipients will travel together from Asheville to Denver on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 and return to Asheville on Sunday, February 8, 2015.

*Scholarship recipients are responsible for informing their teachers and/or employers at the time of selection that they will be out of town from Wednesday, February 4 – Sunday, February 8.

For additional information or to submit your application,
contact Jim Faucett, Executive Director, Youth Outright at jim.faucett@youthoutright.org or 828.772.1912, or by mail: PO Box 1893, Asheville NC 28802.

Youth OUTright, WNC, Inc., a 501c-3, not-for-profit organization, offers discussion groups and social activities for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, ages 14 through 23. Topics and activities are led by two trained facilitators. Youth OUTright’s mission is to empower LGBTQ youth to be confident and vital members of the greater community. For additional information, please visit: youthoutright.org

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