SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) is now accepting functions for 4 key 2026 SIA recognition packages: the 25 on the RISE Awards, Denis R. Hébert Identification Administration Scholarship, James Rothstein Enterprise Scholarship and SIA–SecuritySpecifiers Younger Consultants Scholarship.
These initiatives provide funds to safety business professionals, in addition to college students, to assist them additional their skilled improvement and academic objectives.
What Are the SIA Scholarship Open for Entries Immediately?
The 25 on the RISE award program, offered by SIA’s RISE group for younger professionals and people new to the safety business, acknowledges 25 new and rising safety leaders every year for his or her impactful contributions to advancing the safety business.
SIA 25 on the RISE awardees “symbolize the business’s leaders of in the present day and tomorrow who affect their firms, their communities and the business at massive by way of variety, impression and innovation,” in response to the affiliation announcement.
Every nominee have to be below 40 or have fewer than two years of business expertise and should work for an organization that immediately pertains to the safety business. Honorees will obtain funding to attend the 2026 Securing New Floor (SNG) convention, scheduled for Oct. 20-21 in New York Metropolis, and be acknowledged on the occasion.
The Denis R. Hébert Identification Administration Scholarship program is known as after Denis Hébert, a safety business chief who served as SIA’s board of administrators chairman from 2016 to 2018 and has served as an investor for international safety manufacturers.
The scholarship program yearly awards two $5,000 scholarships to younger professionals who’re present staff of SIA member firms to assist additional their schooling within the area of id administration. Award recipients are nominated by business friends and chosen by the SIA Studying and Improvement Committee.
The scholarship funds have to be used in the direction of post-secondary education schemes, together with coaching programs, accredited faculty programs, certifications or different legitimate credentialing packages associated to the sector of id administration.
What Are Among the Different SIA Scholarship Alternatives?
The James Rothstein Enterprise Scholarship is “designed to help rising professionals and college students within the safety business by offering monetary help to attend the SNG convention,” in response to the SIA announcement.
This aggressive scholarship program—named for James Rothstein, president of Sequel LV and a previous member of SIA’s board of administrators who served as chairman from 2022 to 2024—covers SNG convention passes and journey bills, enabling recipients to “achieve invaluable enterprise insights, community with business leaders and improve their skilled improvement on the safety business’s government convention.”
Every applicant have to be both a SIA scholar member or a member of the SIA RISE group and an worker of a SIA member firm.
The SIA–SecuritySpecifiers Younger Consultants Scholarship, offered by SIA and SecuritySpecifiers and with the direct monetary help of key donors, awards funds to rising safety consultants, designers and specifiers to attend CONSULT (scheduled for Oct. 9-12, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo.).
This program provides every honoree a full ticket to CONSULT; entry to all periods, meals and occasions within the symposium program; a mentorship-focused assembly with structure and engineering/consulting program leaders from our scholarship sponsors, dinner throughout the convention with one in all our sponsors and the chance to take part in SIA’s RISE group.
Candidates have to be age 35 or youthful on the time of CONSULT, be engaged in safety design or consulting full time at a safety consulting or A&E agency and have labored no less than 12 months within the safety business.
“SIA is proud to current this 12 months’s 25 on the RISE Awards and two scholarships established within the names of previous two SIA chairs who superior the affiliation’s worth proposition – the Denis R. Hébert Identification Administration Scholarship, James Rothstein Enterprise Scholarship,” says SIA CEO Don Erickson within the affiliation announcement.
“We’re additionally happy to once more current the SIA–SecuritySpecifiers Younger Consultants Scholarship,” he says. “These are 4 impactful alternatives for profession improvement, skilled development and studying. SIA is deliberately centered on rising the following technology of leaders, and these packages are a part of our broader mission to draw, develop and retain a proficient workforce that ensures the long-term success of our business.”
Functions for these scholarship packages are due Friday, July 31.
