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Invitation to Apply for Scholarship to Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program: "Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management"
For each of the past sixteen years, the Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut Community Partners has granted scholarships to Connecticut nonprofit leaders to attend the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) executive education program. To learn more about SPNM: https://www.exed.hbs.edu/strategic-perspectives-nonprofit-management/
Some of our state’s best nonprofit leaders have attended this program with our scholarships, and unanimously report that SPNM was "the most outstanding executive education experience" of their entire careers. This year, SPNM will be held at the HBS campus in Boston July 12-18, 2020. It is an intensive 6 day program featuring leading HBS faculty and over 150 nonprofit leaders from around the world.
We are beginning our 2020 SPNM scholarship selection process. We seek your help in inviting outstanding nonprofit executives to apply for our full scholarship of $6,500 which includes tuition, supplies, room and board. If you know nonprofit leaders who would be good candidates for the SPNM program we invite you to urge them to apply. Feel free to forward this note to them. A list of past SPNM award winners is here: http://www.hbsconnecticut.org/s/1738/cc/index2.aspx?sid=1738&gid=18&pgid=65658
Requirements for SPNM:
Applicants must serve as Executive Director or Chief Executive Officer and have at least 10 years of professional work experience. Their organization must be of scale, generally requiring at least 5 full time employees and an annual budget in excess of $1,000,000. We want applicants who have a history of career growth, and will profit from the SPNM experience in their current organization as well as wherever their career will take them. We are looking for current and future leaders in the nonprofit sector.
Timing and process for the HBS Community Partners scholarship:
The SPNM application is available by downloading a fill-in PDF here: http://www.hbsconnecticut.org/s/1738/images/gid18/editor_documents/community_partners/spnm_app_2020.pdf?gid=18&pgid=61
Thank you for your interest in the SPNM program and scholarship award. Do not hesitate to contact us with your questions or for more information about the application process and criteria Direct your questions and completed applications to:
James Rulmyr, Awards Chair
E-mail: jrulmyr@gmail.com
or:
Walter Thorman
E-mail: buzzthorman@gmail.com
About HBS Club of CT Community Partners:
HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners supports nonprofit organizations across the state of CT through a variety of offerings. Started in 2004, Community Partners engages alumni volunteers ranging from graduates in the 1960's to the class of 2015. Of the approximately 2,400 alumni who live or work in CT, over 200 alumni have participated in over 125 projects serving over 90 local nonprofits.
In its flagship program, Community Partners organizes alumni teams to provide pro-bono consulting to nonprofits, both through longer term consulting engagements and through short brainstorming sessions. We also support nonprofits by convening periodic training workshops, and facilitate Board retreats.
For more information about HBS Community Partners, and our annual report, http://www.hbsconnecticut.org/s/1738/cc/index2.aspx?sid=1738&gid=18&pgid=32399.