NAMA Marketing Scholarship

This scholarship will enable one person to attend the 2025 NAMA Annual Foray on behalf of the NAMA Marketing Committee. The winning applicant will be required to write a short article for the Mycophile Quarterly, highlighting their experience at the foray and including a brief introduction to the other 2025 NAMA scholarship recipients.

Please see the 2023 article written by winner Rachel Ballou as reference.
Mycophile Quarterly: https://namyco.org/publications/mycophile/#pdf-the-mycophily-63-3-july-august-september-2023/27/

The scholarship recipient will receive:
Priority registration for the NAMA New England Foray, in Marlboro VT, September 11-14, 2025
Visit: https://namyco.org/annual-foray/ for more info

Includes: Registration fee (including all lectures, field trips and room and board at double occupancy rate) *
*Does not include travel to the foray location from recipient’s home or the required NAMA membership.

This scholarship is open to anyone who is at least 18 years of age and has never attended a NAMA Annual Foray in the past. Applicants will submit a short essay, describing how attending the Annual Foray will enhance their knowledge, understanding and experience of mushrooms and the greater mycological community. The marketing committee will review all essays and select a recipient. The chosen essay will be shared in the Mycophile Quarterly before the foray. After attending the foray, the selected participant will share their foray recap article for the Mycophile Quarterly.

To apply for the scholarship, please:

1. Write a short essay. Tell us why you enjoy learning about mushrooms and how attending the NAMA Annual foray would be an important part of that.
2. Please include your full name and email address on the essay.
3. Confirm that you are willing to write an article for the Mycophile after the foray, including connecting (via email and/or in person) with the other NAMA scholarship recipients to share their names, a brief Bio and their favorite or most memorable part of the annual foray. The marketing team will share all of the names and emails with you for correspondence.
4. E-mail your scholarship essay to [email protected] no later than May 30th, 2025.

Questions may be sent to the same email address.
The selected participant will be notified by June 2, 2025.
Good Luck!