Please be reminded that the Len Motisi Memorial Scholarship application is due soon.  If you have not sent in your application, please send it to BMUST no later than March 7, 2016. See below and the application attached.

BMUST belongs to the Long Island Teachers’ Benevolent Fund (LITBF), which offers a yearly scholarship, up to $500 (the Len Motisi Memorial Scholarship) to high school seniors, who are going to college next year and whose parent is an active teacher in a Long Island local.  Many of our members’ sons and daughters have been awarded this scholarship over the years.  
 
The attached application must be sent back to me at the BMUST office no later than March 7, 2016 to get my signature on it and for me to send it to LITBF before the deadline of March 14, 2016.  We are also putting these forms on our website, www.bmust.org. The application has a section that must be completed by your child’s Guidance Counselor. You must include the school transcript, with the GPA on it and include a copy of the SAT scores.  If the transcript does not contain the GPA, your Guidance Counselor must submit a statement with the scores. So please fill the form in as soon as possible and forward it to me through inter-office mail.

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Winter 2016 NYSUT Member Benefits E-Newsletter
 
I am proud to present to you the Winter 2016 issue of our Member Benefits E-Direct electronic newsletter. I hope that you will find the content useful and ask that you pass this publication along to as many of your NYSUT contacts and members as possible.

Each issue of this electronic publication is put together with great thought and effort as we strive to ensure that we offer helpful hints and tips to our members -- an added benefit of NYSUT membership provided at no cost to NYSUT members. We want all NYSUT members to know that membership in this union provides access to a variety of Member Benefits-endorsed programs & services available exclusively to them and their families.

Please click the link below to view this e-newsletter. This publication includes embedded links that will allow you to learn more about our various endorsed programs & services.
 
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One of our goals at NYSUT Member Benefits is to reach the maximum number of members, and we have seen that we are most successful with this goal when people like you share our materials with your colleagues and friends. We continue to increase the number of members who are aware of the endorsed programs & services that we offer but still have great potential for growth in this area.

We are also pleased that the number of members who participate in our endorsed programs & services continues to grow each year; with your help in forwarding this email and e-newsletter link to your membership, we are confident that this growth will continue in the future as well.

Thank you for your continued support of NYSUT Member Benefits!

Warm regards,

Lynette A. Metz
Director, NYSUT Member Benefits Trust
CEO, NYSUT Member Benefits Corporation

SCHOLARSHIP FOR GRADUATING SENIORS WHOSE PARENTS ARE BMUST MEMBERS:
 
BMUST belongs to the Long Island Teachers’ Benevolent Fund (LITBF), which offers a small scholarship (the Len Motisi Memorial Scholarship) to high school seniors, who are graduating this year and who will be attending a post-secondary institution on a full time basis. The student's parent must be an active teacher in a Long Island local.  Many of our members’ sons and daughters have been awarded this scholarship over the years.  
 
The attached application must be sent back to me at the BMUST office no later than March 7, 2016 to get my signature on it and for me to send it to LITBF before the deadline of March 14, 2016.  We are also putting these forms on our website, www.bmust.org. The application has a section that must be completed by your child’s Guidance Counselor. You must include the school transcript, with the GPA on it and include a copy of the SAT scores.  If the transcript does not contain the GPA, your Guidance Counselor must submit a statement with the scores. So please fill the form in as soon as possible and forward it to me through inter-office mail.
 
Good luck.
Mark