In the 2016-2017 academic year, the Atkinson Graduate School of Management introduced the not-for-profit answer to the angel investment experience: A grant management program with $150,000 in seed money managed by MBA candidates.
Willamette MBA Dean and JELD-WEN Professor of Free Enterprise Debra Ringold views the grant administration program as another way Atkinson blends experiential and consequential learning methods into one powerful student experience.
"This two-semester, two-instructor opportunity allows students to experience, firsthand, the challenges, joys, and responsibilities of building and evaluating not-for-profit capacity,” Ringold said.