FAQs for WPFN CPFO Scholarships

The scholarship is available to active WPFN members who are not a current CPFO program participant. Submit an application here.

Yes. In order to be a member of WPFN or to receive the CPFO designation, active GFOA membership is required.

Yes, if you have not enrolled in the new CPFO program, then you are eligible for the scholarship.

You may apply to multiple scholarships. However, only one scholarship will be awarded. For example, if you received a CPFO scholarship through GFOA’s Black Caucus, then you will not receive a scholarship through WPFN.

WPFN will award up to 10 scholarships.

The scholarship will cover the $1,200 fee for two years of enrollment in the CPFO program, which includes five exam attempts, two free GFOA e-learning webinars, and access to a CPFO Exam Prep product with over twenty recorded seminars.

Please apply by February 29. Scholarship recipients will be announced in the WPFN Newsletter on April 16.