NEMA Professional Development Award
Established to make the annual conference financially accessible. It helps support travel, lodging, and registration for individual members of NEMA and employees of NEMA institutional members at the NEMA annual conference. Awards of up to $300 are available depending on the availability of funds in any given year. It is expected that recipients and/or their institution will provide some of the costs of attending the annual conference.

The Laura B. Roberts Scholarship
This $500 stipend is awarded to support travel, lodging, and registration. Priority for this scholarship will be given to graduates of the Tufts Certificate, Bank Street Museum Leadership, and Cooperstown programs. This scholarship has been provided with support from Laura B. Roberts.

University Products Curatorial Fellowship
The Curators Professional Affinity Group, with support from University Products, provides a $300 stipend for individual members of NEMA and employees of NEMA institutional members to be used for a three-day conference registration. Any curator who has worked in the field five years or less, and works for an institution with an annual budget of $250,000 or less, is eligible for the award.

Gaylord Bros., Small Museum Scholarship
This $500 stipend is awarded to support travel, lodging and registration for individual members of NEMA and employees of NEMA institutional members. Staff members or volunteers from institutions with an annual budget of $250,000 or less are eligible. This scholarship has been provided with support from Gaylord Bros.

The Connecticut Humanities Council Scholarship
This $260 stipend is awarded to support full-conference registration expenses for paid staff members of Connecticut museums and historical societies. Priority will be given to first-time NEMA conference attendees or for individuals who have not attended a NEMA conference in the past three years. Ten scholarships will be awarded. This scholarship has been provided by the Connecticut Humanities Council's Heritage Resource Center.

The John Nicholas Brown Center Historic Sites Fellowship
The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University provides a $500 fellowship to a culturally diverse museum professional to attend the NEMA annual conference. NEMA members from diverse social, economic, racial, or ethnic backgrounds whose attendance at the conference will benefit their museum and whose commitment to museum work will be reinforced by their participation are encouraged to apply. Applicants must register for the entire conference. The stipend may be used to fund registration, travel, lodging, and food.