Scholarships

Memorial Student Scholarship Program

MAP’s Memorial Scholarship Program was created by Larry Bauman and Mike Banas in 1993 to honor their dear friend Mike Manore, a long time planning leader who had passed away. The Memorial Scholarship Program accepts member donations and sponsorships to perpetually fund scholarships for graduate and undergraduate urban and regional planning students in Michigan.

Applications for student scholarships are reviewed once a year. Scholarships are selected through a competitive process and awarded in the summer.

The 2025 application is due by May 16, 2025, 11:59 pm.

To apply, you must be a member of Michigan Association of Planning and enrolled at a Michigan college or university for academic year 2025-2026 in an urban or regional planning program or related curriculum with an emphasis on land use planning.

Recent scholarships have ranged from $800 to $1500 per student, in addition to complimentary registration for the annual Planning Michigan conference, held in the Fall.

Click here to complete and submit the Memorial Student Scholarship application.

Donations to the Memorial Scholarship Fund will be gratefully accepted and are tax-deductible.

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Black Student Conference Scholarship

In 2022, MAP's MDP Career Development Committee developed and launched a scholarship program for Black students studying planning to cover all costs to attend MAP's annual planning conference held in the fall.

A non-monetary scholarship will cover all costs to attend the Annual Planning Michigan conference including conference registration, travel (gas card), and accommodations. A mentor will be provided to each conference scholarship recipient onsite to help navigate the conference, broker introductions, facilitate networking, and generally provide support and guidance that will enhance the scholarship recipient’s experience.  A Black student and professional luncheon is also included.

This scholarship will boost the involvement at the Planning Michigan Conference among Black students studying planning at a Michigan University, and will advance MAP’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals.

• Scholarship application window opens in April 2025 and closes in September.
• Scholarship winners are notified later in September. 

If you are a Black student studying planning in Michigan, you may be eligible for the scholarship! Please click here for the Black Student Scholarship Application.

Donations to the Black Student Conference Scholarship Fund will be gratefully accepted and are tax-deductible.

MAP's Black Student Conference Scholarship is a non-monetary scholarship that covers all costs to attend 2025 Annual Planning Michigan conference for Black students studying planning in Michigan. 

MAP is grateful to the following firms for their very generous donations to this fund:   Giffels Webster,  HNTB, McKenna, Carlisle | Wortman Associates, Wade Trim, The Kresge Foundation, Williams & Works, and OHM.  And these individual contributors:  Andrea Brown AICP, Brian Vosburg AICP, Edward Lynch AICP, Greg Moots, Rachel Smith, Marja Winters Farrow, Christopher LeFlore, Rod Arroyo FAICP, Kathleen Duffy AICP, Wendy Rampson AICP, Dan Commer, Justin Curry, and John Iaconangeli, FAICP.  Thank you!

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