IFDA'S Educational Foundation Announces 2019 Professional Grant Winners

New Bern, S.C. -- The Educational Foundation (EF) of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA), has announced the winners of five of its professional grants. Since the early years of this 72-year-old global design industry alliance, EF has awarded grants to talented professionals as well as scholarships to high-achieving design students, internationally. Last year, the funds awarded totaled more than $32,000.

“We congratulate all the winners of our professional grants; it’s an impressive group doing very worthwhile endeavors from technology or to the historic preservation arena,” said Merry Mabbett Dean, FIFDA, chairman of the board of the Educational Foundation of IFDA. “While there were a host of qualified applicants, each grant winner perfectly exemplified the goals of the grant they were awarded – whether further education or professional development, which benefits the industry as a whole, or educational programs as well as technology to assist in off-site collaborations and asynchronous learning that support today’s interior design students.”