Yamaha Offers Scholarships For Ag-Comm College Students
Yamaha Motor Corporation has launched a new scholarship program that will provide assistance to members of the Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT). ACT is a national college student association that has 354 members located on 17 college and university campuses across the country. ACT's mission of fostering professional development is at the core of the new Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program.
The Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program is broken out into two individual student scholarships and one chapter scholarship. All three are aimed at helping students attend the American Agricultural Editors' Association's annual Agricultural Media Summit (AMS). As the largest gathering of crop and livestock media professionals in the country, the AMS is the ACT's primary career development networking opportunity each year.
"The Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program was developed in conjunction with ACT to help meet recipients' immediate financial needs while furthering their long-term goal of professional development," said Steve Nessl, Yamaha's ATV and side-by-side group marketing manager. "As future professional communicators, Yamaha is looking to these students to help deliver messages of safe, responsible use of our products throughout the greater agriculture and farming community."
All applicants for the Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program will be judged based on merit, need and quality of submission materials by a review committee of Yamaha employees, an ACT faculty advisor, members of the American Agricultural Editors' Association and members of the Livestock Publications Council. More information on the Yamaha ACT Scholarship Program can be found online at www.nactnow.org.
Yamaha Continues To Support The Sport
In more blue news, Yamaha Motor Corporation has contributed more than $175,000 in cash and equipment in the first quarter of 2009 to various riding clubs, national forests, law enforcement support groups and off-highway vehicle (OHV) organizations through its OHV Access Initiative. The Yamaha GRANTS (Guaranteeing Responsible Access to our Nation's Trails) program has donated more than $875,000 since the beginning of last year and continued in its support by awarding the most recent donations to 15 new applicants that had compelling projects designed to improve OHV experiences locally, regionally and nationally.
"The Yamaha OHV Access Initiative has become a vital resource for OHV communities that are performing the on-the-ground work needed to create and maintain safe and responsible riding areas," said Mike Martinez, Yamaha's general manager of ATV and side-by-side operations. "Yamaha has put more than $875,000 back into the OHV community through the OHV Access Initiative over the past 15 months. Particularly in this economic climate, these grassroots organizations need help, and Yamaha is proud to continue our support of the industry and enthusiasts through these GRANTS."