Spencer Educational Foundation Announces Spencer Day to Be Held on February 22nd
2nd Annual Spencer Day Will Celebrate the Diverse Future of the RMI Industry
January 25, 2021 (New York, NY): The Spencer Educational Foundation will hold its 2nd Annual Spencer Day on Monday, February 22, 2021. This year, Spencer Day will celebrate the diverse future of the risk management and insurance industry focusing on Spencer Scholars and alumni.
Spencer Day is an opportunity for industry professionals to recognize Spencer Scholars and alumni and for employers to emphasize the value they place on hiring and supporting Spencer Scholars and the diverse talent pool represented. It is also a chance for Spencer Scholars – past or present – to identify themselves and feature their educational and career accolades. Spencer encourages individuals, companies, and organizations to show their support on their social media channels using #SpencerScholars.
“For the past 41 years, Spencer has had the privilege of supporting future risk management and insurance industry leaders,” said Megan Miller, Spencer Executive Director. “Today, we want to ensure that all students have the opportunity to work in our amazing industry, and that the talent pipeline fully reflects the diversity of our great country.”
Spencer Day 2021 reflects on the Foundation’s continued work in supporting diversity and inclusion in the risk management and insurance industry, including our partnerships with companies and organizations to create a myriad of merit-based diversity scholarships. Those partnerships enabled the creation of 20 new scholarships: eight New York City Association of Insurance Women (NYCAIW) scholarships awarded to female applicants, eight Arch Insurance Scholars Program diversity scholarships, two scholarships through the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies for Latinx students, and The Argo Group Diversity scholarship – a two-year scholarship awarded to a diverse student studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These efforts represent a $100,000 direct investment in diverse talent.
In celebration of Spencer Day, the Foundation is providing the opportunity for alumni and supporters to create their own named scholarship. With a recurring monthly gift of $500, donors can create a Spencer named scholarship that can be in honor of, in celebration of, or in memory of a person or entity of the donor’s choosing. A named scholarship allows Spencer supporters to pay it forward to future Spencer scholars and to assist in funding the education of risk management and insurance students.
For more information on Spencer Day or to create a named scholarship pledge, please contact Executive Director, Megan E. Miller: mmiller@spencered.org.
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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 its founding in 1979, Spencer has awarded over $8 million in scholarships and $5 million in grants to universities and professional institutions affecting more than 60,000 students through programming. For more information, please visit www.spencered.org.