National Italian American Foundation Inc

Scholarships/ grants: approximately $970k was awarded for grants, scholarships and other education programs. Scholarships were presented to students at the college and graduate levels. Grants were awarded for such categories as general undergraduate, women's studies, italian language, communications, etc.

Member services: tiered membership program offering various opportunities for each level of membership. Membership support has allowed niaf to expand its many youth programs, scholarship offerings and grant awards to thousands of deserving italian americans throughout the country.

Public policy: includes seminars, conferences, and news information projects designed to acquaint the general public with the italian community as represented by niaf. Also, the niaf continues efforts in the cooperation with the embassy of italy in assisting italian americans interested in obtaining italian citizenship. Niaf launched an online survey questionnaire to determine eligibility requirements for use by the embassy in processing potential applications.