{"id":70252,"date":"2025-12-04T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/government-finance-professional-development-scholarship-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:28:16","slug":"government-finance-professional-development-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/government-finance-professional-development-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Jo Harker Professional Development Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Amount: <\/strong> $10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>About: <\/strong><br \/>\n Offered by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), the Betty Jo Harker Professional Development Scholarship (formerly, Government Finance Professional Development Scholarship) is awarded to part-time graduate students who work in government with a career interest in state and local government finance. Applicants must be U.S. or Canadian citizens or permanent residents, be studying public administration, governmental accounting, finance, economics, or business administration with specific focus on government, and be employed at least two years by one or more state or local governments.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> Graduate Student<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligible Majors:<\/strong> Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Residency Requirement:<\/strong> No residency requirement<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Minimum GPA:<\/strong> No GPA requirement<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline:<\/strong> <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Application is currently closed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor&#8217;s website for up-to-date deadlines.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gfoa.org\/available-scholarships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amount: $10,000. 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