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Support the chapter's scholarship fund. On this site, all Amazon.com search boxes contain an ID code that identifies the Washington, DC Chapter in the Amazon.com Associates program. You may purchase books, music, appliances, apparel, tools, computer software and hardware through the selection box. See our lists of suggested Reference Books for direct links to books. Items purchased through these links provide us with a commission of up to 8.5% of each sale. (There is no change in the price of any item.) We may also use these funds to help support the chapter's budget for operating expenses, printing, and so forth.
Contributions to the chapter's scholarship fund provide support to the Austin T. Brown Technical Communication Scholarship Competition for high school students and the Shirley G. Carter Memorial Scholarship for college undergraduate and graduate students. For information about making a charitable donation to our student scholarship fund, see Corporate sponsorship and sustaining organizations.
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