Nonprofit leaders and student participants will celebrate the first year of the Scholars on Board Program, a project that assigns 15 graduate students to serve on the governing boards of well-established nonprofit organizations throughout the Northwest.
The Planning, Public Policy and Management department will present the nonprofit organizations with a Certificate of Acknowledgment, and participants will provide first-person accounts of their experiences today at 8 a.m. in the EMU Gumwood Room.
Graduate students involved in the year-long program had various functions, including chairing a hiring committee, assisting a capital campaign, serving as a properties manager for a theater production, developing databases, writing grants and working on a re-branding campaign.
The program is a partnership between Pacific Continental Bank, the University’s Nonprofit Management program and regional organizations. The three-year grant from Pacific
Continental pays for the class and instructor fees and provides 10 of the students with a $500 stipend to offset expenses of serving on the board.
The PPPM department is planning to continue the program this fall, according to a press release.