Spencer Announces 2021 Grant Recipients
The Spencer Educational Foundation is proud to announce our 2021 Grant award recipients. For the 2021 grant year cycle, Spencer awarded 13 grants totaling $382,682 (includes multi-year grants). Spencer’s 2021 grant recipients include:
· Appalachian State University
· National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA)
· Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)
· RIMS (Risk Management and Insurance Society) – Anita Benedetti Student Involvement Program, Risk Management Challenge, ERM Conference Attendance, and Risk Tech Conference Attendance
Spencer received a wide range of excellent grant proposals and we are excited to see these initiatives in action. Some of the grant recipient proposals include: a diversity and inclusion in risk management & insurance initiative, a RMI/STEM certificate program, a recruitment and career awareness diversity program, the NAAIA National Talent Development Competition, student attendance at several conferences and events, and the “Spencer Digital Insights Lab” bringing students, faculty, and the industry together to solve novel risk management business problems through the application of software and analytics.
“We’re very excited to partner with organizations through our grants program to provide educational and real-life experiences to students who are interested in risk management and insurance,” said Kristen Bessette, Chair of Spencer’s Grants Committee and Chief Actuary at QBE North America. “Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we’re able to reach thousands of students and expose them to the great opportunities that await them in the industry. It was hard to choose between all the excellent proposals, but our selected partners really stood out with the quality of their programs and their broad outreach in the student community. Congratulations to all the grant recipients!”
Spencer provides a myriad of grants aimed at developing and advancing our industry’s future leaders. Past grants include development of advanced courses in InsureTech, Enterprise Risk Management, Cyber Risk, and Data Analytics; student attendance at industry conferences and symposia; and a variety of other unique proposals. Spencer’s goal to help build a global talent pipeline of risk and insurance professionals is achieved in part by our collaboration with the risk and insurance educators across the United States and Canada.
About Spencer Educational Foundation
The Spencer Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funding the education of tomorrow’s risk management and insurance leaders through scholarships, grants, internship opportunities, on and off campus experiential learning, and support of risk management/insurance curricula. Since Spencer was founded in 1979, we have awarded over $8 million in scholarships and $5 million in grants to universities and professional institutions affecting more than 60,000 students through our programs. For more information, please visit us at www.spencered.org.