SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) is now accepting purposes for 3 key 2026 scholarship packages: the SIA RISE Scholarship, SIA Veterans in Safety Scholarship and Girls in Safety Discussion board Scholarship.
These initiatives “provide funds to safety trade professionals, in addition to college students, to assist them additional their skilled improvement and academic targets,” in response to the affiliation announcement.
“SIA’s RISE, Veterans in Safety and Girls in Safety Discussion board scholarships—introduced by three vibrant SIA member communities—are glorious alternatives to help your skilled improvement, studying and progress,” says SIA chief govt officer Don Erickson within the affiliation announcement.
“SIA is proud to construct on our dedication to fostering the next-generation safety workforce and, with extra scholarships this yr than ever earlier than, we look ahead to serving to our trade’s rising leaders, younger professionals, ladies and navy veterans obtain their skilled and academic targets,” he says.
What Are the Safety Business Affiliation Scholarships?
The SIA RISE Scholarship, introduced by SIA’s RISE neighborhood, provides $3,000 scholarships to create the schooling and profession improvement targets of younger safety professionals, pupil members and people new to the trade.
The scholarship—open to SIA pupil members and RISE members who’re staff of SIA member corporations worldwide— is meant to develop recipients’ skilled data within the areas of enterprise, human sources, data know-how, advertising and marketing/gross sales, venture administration, safety engineering and danger administration.
Scholarship funds can be utilized towards persevering with schooling, pupil mortgage reimbursement {and professional} improvement packages similar to coaching and certifications.
In 2026, choose honorees will obtain three particular RISE Scholarships: the Joey Comunale Scholarship, the Dalal Household Scholarship and the Pierre Trapanese Scholarship.
New in 2026, the SIA Veterans Safety Scholarship program is “devoted to advancing the schooling and careers of navy veterans,” the affiliation announcement says.
This program, introduced by the SIA Veterans in Safety neighborhood, will award a number of scholarships of as much as $5,000 every to help awardees in scholarly and vocational pursuits, together with faculty levels, certificates packages {and professional} studying and improvement, associated to safety, in addition to pupil mortgage reimbursement for packages associated to the trade.
The Veterans in Safety Scholarship is open to U.S. navy veterans who’re presently related to SIA member corporations and/or presently serving members of the U.S. navy who’re planning to transition to private-sector careers in safety.
The SIA Girls in Safety Discussion board Scholarship was “created to additional instructional alternatives for the widest spectrum of individuals and empower all to hitch the SIA Girls in Safety Discussion board (WISF) and thrive within the safety trade,” in response to the SIA announcement.
Via this scholarship—open to all SIA members and pupil members—every recipient can be awarded $7,500 to make use of towards authorized diploma packages, persevering with schooling, reimbursement of pupil loans {and professional} improvement packages (e.g. coaching programs, certifications and conferences).
Every year, SIA awards the top-scoring WISF scholarship applicant with the Sandy Jones Award, a particular scholarship distinction named for trade veteran and longtime SIA member Sandra (Sandy) Jones.
Purposes for the 2026 SIA scholarship packages are due Friday, Sept. 11.
Be taught extra about SIA’s scholarship packages and apply right here!
