Cadora "Fund a Judge" Program

(instituted January 2010)

 download application form
 download program description

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. This programme has been designed to help individuals acquire specific judging credentials.
2. All individuals accessing this programme must be members in good standing of Cadora Inc. in the year they apply for funding.
3. A member “in good standing” is one who has joined Cadora Inc no later than June 1st of the current year.
4. Those individuals who have applied to move from “r” to “B”, “B” to “M”, or “M” to “S” are invited to apply to Cadora Inc for this assistance.
5. Only officially-sanctioned dressage judges’ clinics, run under the auspices of either EC/DC or USEF, can be used.
6. This funding is for judges who have applied to UPGRADE their status and is not available to those judges who are obliged to UPDATE a current status.
7. The allotted funding may be used to assist in defraying candidate judges’ costs for airfare, ground travel, accommodation, meals, clinic registration fees, etc. i.e. any cost normally associated with attending a clinic. In addition, in the event that more than one clinic is offered in a calendar year, eligible applicants must attend the clinic closest to their residence.
8. Funding is not to be used to pay for any personal costs such as long distance telephone calls, spirits, dry-cleaning, entertainment, etc.
9. All expenditures must be supported by receipts prior to funding being distributed. Ground travel expenses will be calculated at the rate of .30/kilometer.
10. All applications for funding must be forwarded to the President of Cadora Inc. no later than June 1st of the current year. Only the application form on www.cadora.ca is to be used.
11. There is no limit to the number of times a candidate judge applying for upgrading can request funding via this programme.     
12. The maximum amount of funding per person per calendar year is $250.00.
13. Depending upon the availability of same, additional funding may be allotted.