Spencer Academic Basis grants greater than $1.6 million

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

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 assist of our mission to advertise training in danger administration and insurance coverage,” mentioned Megan Miller, govt director of the Spencer Academic Basis.

“This generosity has enabled us to offer precious monetary assist to gifted college students pursuing careers in these insurance coverage trade 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 be capable of apply their information whereas gaining hands-on expertise and growing trade contacts.

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

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

The assist supplied by Spencer relies on advantage as an alternative of monetary want.