Over 200 Scholarships Awarded!

The Open Door is proud to announce that as of December 31, 2002, NACCB Chapters have distributed 258 scholarships to students at 58 educational institutions.

The Open Door Education Foundation is thrilled with the impressive backgrounds and achievements of our Open Door Scholarship Recipients.

We will continue to work closely with the NACCB Chapters in creating scholarship programs that meet the needs of our sponsors, the IT industry, and, most importantly, the needs of our future IT professionals.

Funds designated for Open Door Scholarships can be distributed to a sponsor's chosen region (through an NACCB Chapter), or on a national basis. The Open Door Education Foundation will work closely with our valued sponsors to create scholarship programs that best fit their needs.

To learn more about the Open Door scholarships, visit our Scholarship Hub.

Contact the Open Door directly with your questions.

The Open Door Education Foundation is actively involved in educating the public about the IT industry.

Funds from Open Door Technology Challenge directly support the ongoing operation and improvements of the web site you are visiting. This web site is a dynamic on-line vehicle that promotes IT education and careers.

Open Door is seeking additional funding to support new education outreach programs that will excite, encourage and educate young people, their teachers, parents, back-to-work Moms, second career adults, and, just about anyone interested in learning more about careers in information technology.

Contact the Open Door directly with your questions.

The Open Door is embarking on an ambitious fundraising campaign with the goal to raise $5 million by 2010 for the Sustaining Member Campaign.

This Fund will allow the Open Door to continue in perpetuity, providing the support necessary to achieve our mission. It will establish the Open Door as a self-funding entity.

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As with all organizations, some of the Foundation's funds must be used to run the foundation itself.

Here are some of the things we do to ensure that the majority of your funds directly support IT education and educational programs:

• Control our staff size and related expenses. One way that NACCB supports our work is by providing space and necessary support services for our small staff at extremely reasonable rates.
• Use all available donated services - for everything from designing our brochures and making our pins to creating and supporting this web site (our thanks to the hard work and generosity of Outweb, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, providing this site pro bono) for three years.
• Depend upon our hard-working board members for volunteer labor at all levels - and upon their generosity as they never request or receive reimbursement for the travel and related expenses they incur while serving the Open Door.
• Depend upon our hard-working NACCB Chapter Reps who work with the schools in their communities to identify the scholarship recipients and to award the scholarships.

The doors to our offices are always open to our sponsors and the public.

Please visit us the next time you are in Old Town, Alexandria, VA.

Contact the Open Door directly with your questions.