Spencer Academic Basis grants greater than $1.6 million

The Spencer Academic Basis (Spencer), a non-profit group supporting schooling in danger administration and insurance coverage, has awarded over $1.6 million to college students and organizations for danger administration and insurance coverage schooling.

In 2023, the group has awarded 103 scholarships, 32 internship grants, 22 Danger Supervisor on Campus (RMOC) grants, 16 common grants, and 14 course improvement grants.

“We’re immensely grateful to our companions and donors for his or her devoted help of our mission to advertise schooling in danger administration and insurance coverage,” stated Megan Miller, govt director of the Spencer Academic Basis.

“This generosity has enabled us to offer priceless monetary help to proficient college students pursuing careers in these insurance coverage business fields,” she added.

The internship grants program gives funding for danger managers to rent interns of their organizations’ danger administration perform in addition to present real-world enterprise environments the place interns will have the ability to apply their information whereas gaining hands-on expertise and growing business contacts.

The RMOC grants program provides grants as much as $5,000 for universities to deliver a working towards danger supervisor to their campus to current and have interaction with college students concerning the danger administration occupation and insurance coverage business over a interval of 1-3 days.

The final grants program helps student-centered experiential studying alternatives in universities, in addition to business organizations, whereas the course improvement grants help the creation and improvement of introductory and extra RMI programs for universities within the US and Canada.

The help supplied by Spencer relies on benefit as an alternative of economic want.