SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

CFE Exam Scholarships

Tampa Bay Chapter Associate Members who pass the CFE examination will be reimbursed for the cost of the examination (up to a $250 value). In order to qualify for the scholarship, you need provide proof of passing the CFE exam and you need to have been an Associate Member of the Tampa Bay Chapter for at least one full year click here for more about Associate Membership. 

To apply for the CFE Exam Scholarship, submit a scholarship request letter along with proof of passing the exam to Laura Brock, Chapter Treasurer. Presentation of the scholarship will be made at a Chapter Dinner Meeting.
 

Student Scholarships

The Chapter has been actively providing scholarships totaling over $20,000 to students in the local community since 2001.  The Chapter established a scholarship committee to identify the process of finding candidates from the local Colleges and Universities.  Since the first scholarship of $500 was awarded, the Chapter has continued to provide scholarship funding to criminology, accounting and ethics students at six local Colleges and Universities.  Currently, each School is awarded $1,000, and they each establish a scholarship selection committee to receive applications, review them, and select the recipients.  Most of the Colleges and Universities have professors, who are CFE members of our Chapter.  For further information about our Student Scholarships please contact Laura Krueger Brock, our Chapter Treasurer here.
 

Ritchie Jennings Memorial Scholarship

Through the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship Program, the ACFE Foundation supports the education of collegiate accounting and criminal justice students around the globe.

To find out more about this scholarship click here

In 2008 and 2009 our Chapter donated attendance for one at our two-day seminar in May to the annual auction to raise funds for this scholarship.
 

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay

In 2009 we donated $500 to Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay and we plan to continue to do this in future years. 

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is a community based program, which is designed to bring law enforcement, the news media and the citizens closer together in an effort to combat crime and make the community a safer place to live. Crime Stoppers acts as a clearing house for information, and encourages people who know about crimes or about people who have committed crimes to call with information. Crime Stoppers offers rewards to people who call. People remain anonymous when they call.

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay was established in 1988, and currently services Hillsborough and Pasco counties. In 1998, the program was expanded to include all public middle and senior high schools in Hillsborough County. Campus Crime Stoppers of Hillsborough County is just as effective in the schools as it is in the community. Through anonymous tips, over $85,000 in drugs and stolen property has been recovered and there have been over 600 arrests.

Click here to learn more about Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay
 

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