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				<title>Alexia Foundation 2017 Professional &#038; Student Grants</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Alexia Foundation has recently scheduled the competition for its 2017 Grant cycle, to once again support professional and student photographers around the world. The Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opportunities. The Professional Grant Winner will receive $20,000 (US) to produce his or her proposed project. Several different grants will be given out as part of the Student Awards to both undergraduate and graduate students.]]></description>
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					<media:title type="html"><![CDATA[A group of boys climb a tree on the Xingu River by the city of Altamira, Brazil. Photo by Aaron Vincent Elkaim, the winner of the Alexia Foundation 2016 Professional Grant]]></media:title>
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							<p>Alexia Foundation has recently scheduled the competition for its 2017 Grant cycle, to once again support professional and student photographers around the world. The Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opportunities. The Professional Grant Winner will receive $20,000 (US) to produce his or her proposed project. Several different grants will be given out as part of the Student Awards to both undergraduate and graduate students.</p>
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							<p><a class="btn btn-default btn-lg btn-success" rel="external" href="http://www.alexiafoundation.org/blog/2017/04/10/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-alexia-2017-grants/">Results have been announced!</a></p>						</aside>
						<p>Read more about <a href="https://www.contestwatchers.com/alexia-foundation-2017-professional-student-grants/">Alexia Foundation 2017 Professional &#038; Student Grants</a> on <a href="https://www.contestwatchers.com/2016/09/19/">Contest Watchers</a>.</p>
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