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A scholarship is defined as an award of financial aid for a student to further education. There are various criteria applied to applicants who plan to get those scholarships where it is usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.

Scholarships is usually classified as:

• Merit-based: These are scholarships which are based on a student’s academic, artistic, athletic, extracurricular activities, community service record and other abilities. The most common merit-based scholarship recognize academic achievement or high scores on standardized tests.
• Need-based: In the United States, these scholarships are based on the student and family’s financial record and will require applicants to fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to qualify if the scholarship is a federal award.
• Student-specific: These are awards where applicants must initially qualify by gender, race, religion, family, medical history, or specific factors. Minority scholarships are the most common awards in this category.
• Career-specific: These are scholarships awarded by a college/university to students who plan to pursue a specific field of study. Often the most generous awards are given to students pursuing careers in high-need areas such as education or nursing.
• College-specific: College-specific scholarships are offered by individual colleges and universities to highly qualified applicants. These scholarships, given on the basis of academic and personal achievement, usually result in either a full-ride to the college, or for a reduced rate of tuition fees.

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Giving an award certificate to best achiever employee on monthly basis is a popular tradition in the United States. The objective of this Employee of the Month Program is to recognize special employees for outstanding work performance, good working relations with fellow employees and clients. This is a tool that reinforces and rewards the most important outcomes people create for your business. When you recognize people effectively, you reinforce, with your chosen means of recognition, the actions and behaviors you most want to see people repeat. An effective employee recognition system is simple, immediate, and powerfully reinforcing. There are some common places, like restaurants, hotels, supermarkets where you can see this award certificate is being stick on their walls. And the awarding of this certificate should be followed by additional incentives which could motivate their employees to explore their best to become the next best employee.

But, you have to make sure that the selection method is transparent based on objective criteria. For example you should carefully design specific information of behaviors or actions that will be rewarded/recognized, and you should make a standard valuation on any employee accomplishments. It is needed to prevent any disputes that might arise in the future where the best employee is selected based on objective criteria instead of like/dislike criteria .

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When I posted this thanksgiving gift certificate template, Thanksgiving day is about to come within a month. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. It is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada, where in year 2011 the day will be on 24th of November. Because of the longstanding traditions of the holiday, the celebration often extends to the weekend that falls closest to the day it is celebrated with turkey is served as a traditional meal.

This Thanksgiving gift certificate is a suitable gift if you plan to treat your relatives or colleagues within thanksgiving period. And for stores or companies who sell or provide gift certificates to their visitors and employees, creating a unique thanksgiving gift certificate should raise their stores/companies value. And it should promote their products, too. You can download these templates below to give you ideas on creating your own. Or, if you plan to provide a small quantity of gift certificates, you can do a little modification in these templates using Microsort Word and print it. Be sure you record it well so there won’t be any disputes when people try to redeem it.

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Fitness gift certificate is a great way to help someone get a jump start on their health and fitness goals. Or it will be a great introduction to people who wants to know how to lose their weight by doing fitness. And it will perfect if you are also a member of the fitness center where you can explain more benefits of joining fitness. You can explain how fitness can help you improve your self esteem, quality of life, and energy level.

This fitness gift certificate template is a template that any fitness center owner can use as a reference of making their own gift certificate. Or, if you are a health store which plan to promote your store by selling a fitness gift certificate, with cooperation with fitness center, you can use this template as your reference. Feel free to personalize it to suit your style. One simple thing that will make this gift certificate as your own gift certificate is to replace the picture with your store or fitness center photos.

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