Active Living Resource Center offers ProBike scholarships

ALRC OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS TO PRO WALK/PRO BIKE

According to Sharon Roerty, NCBW's director for community programs, the Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) is offering eight full scholarships for the biennial Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, September 5-8, 2006.

The ALRC is managed by the NCBW with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program educates and supports community groups in making their neighborhoods more active places to live. "The ALRC program is aimed at everyday people working to make their neighborhoods places where walking and biking are part of the community quilt," said Roerty. This year as part of our outreach activities, we are making opportunities available for community activists to attend the ProWalk/ProBike conference in September."

ALRC Scholarship recipients will be active conference participants, sharing how their organizations work and what their needs are in special sessions and attending sessions on innovations and community success stories. The Scholarship will provide for conference registration, travel to and from Madison, hotel accommodations, and a per diem for meals.

More information on the ALRC Scholarship Program is available on the ALRC web site www.activelivingresources.org. The scholarships are intended to attract leaders of community organizations that are working in minority and low-income communities.

"We are hoping that that the professionals and advocates that know and have worked with NCBW and ALRC and who have been to past

Pro Walk/Pro Bike conferences will help make community groups they

work with aware of this opportunity," said Roerty. "We want our old friends to bring new friends and help us reach into the grass roots groups that are the real agents of change." The deadline to apply for

the ALRC Scholarship Program is July 1, 2006. The application can be downloaded from:

http://www.activelivingresources.org/scholarships.html

For more information about the scholarships program, contact Sharon Roerty at sharon@bikewalk.org