Scholarships & Sponsorships

The NAHR Foundation is proud to sponsor the following scholarships:

The NAHR SHRM Scholarship Sponsorship

The NAHR Foundation has partnered with the SHRM Foundation to establish the NAHR Graduate Student Scholarship for three years in the amount of $7,500 each year. The NAHR Foundation will fund the Scholarship and the SHRM Foundation will select the Scholarship recipients. Graduate student scholarship beneficiaries must be enrolled in a master’s degree program clearly pursuing an emphasis on HR or HR related programs. Judging criteria for the scholarship is based on a combined percentage of SHRM student chapter involvement and/or commitment to the HR profession (35%), academic achievement (30%), additional leadership and service activities or work experience (25%), and financial need (10%).

SHRM's application process for the Scholarship begins each January.

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The Richard A. Beaumont Memorial Scholarship

For more than forty years Richard Beaumont was CEO and Chairman of IRC (a nonprofit research foundation established in 1926 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to “advance the knowledge and practice of human relations” in the world of work) and of ORC, a for-profit subsidiary that sponsored peer networks for CHROs and other HR leaders and provided consulting and data services across the HR function. He was a former deputy undersecretary of the US Navy, served on the boards of multiple corporations and educational institutions, and was a founding member and Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR).This award honors the memory of Richard A. Beaumont, a long-time pioneer in the field of human resources and leader of IRC4HR and its predecessor organizations.

The James A. Perkins Memorial Scholarship

James A. Perkins, formerly the Senior Vice President, Personnel at Federal Express Corporation, was inducted as a Fellow in the inaugural Class of 1992. He was our first Black Fellow. He attended Alabama’s Tuskegee University, and achieved an honorary degree from St. Augustine in Raleigh, which like Tuskegee is a Historically Black College/University (HBCU). A scholarship was established at Tuskegee in his honor.