Requesting Funds for a Student Organization: An Application Letter

You are the Vice President of a student group writing a request for funding support from a university office.

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You belong to a student association called the Future Medical Professionals Society. Your group has the opportunity to bring Dr. Donald Raimes, an expert on weight loss surgery, to speak on campus. However, you need additional funds to help pay for his speaking fee, airfare, and lodging expenses.

The Office of Student Affairs at your school, Larchmont University, has a Professional Speakers Fund which awards several small grants (up to $5000) each year to groups like yours. You, as the Vice President of the Future Medical Professionals Society, have been asked to write a letter of application to the fund administrators, requesting money to help pay for Dr. Raimes' visit.

The files below contain information and visuals that you may use in your letter.

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File 1: Obesity and Healthcare

• Weight loss surgery: facts and definitions
• An annotated bibliography of online resources about obesity and weight loss surgery

File 2: Dr. Donald Raimes

• Biography and speaker information
• Newspaper Article (featuring interview with Dr. Raimes):
  Surgical Weight Loss Exploding in Popularity
  Doctors, patients caution those who expect an “easy fix”

File 3: Larchmont University

• University Mission Statement and student enrollment figures by major
• Future Medical Professionals Society Treasurer's Report and Resolution on Dr. Raimes
• Email from Professor Dan Jackson, School of Nursing
• Recent editorial from Larchmont Student News: Students Don’t See Connections Between “Classroom Ethics” and the Real World

File 4: Larchmont University Professional Speakers Fund

• Fund application guidelines

About these files

The individuals, organizations, and publications listed in files 2, 3, and 4 are entirely fictional. We have created these documents so that you may learn how to use sources effectively and appropriately before conducting original research of your own.

The information included in File 1 is authentic, however. The file cites the sources from which we have drawn these statistics.

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