AAF Allocation

Ensuring your support has maximum impact

As decided by the alumni body in 2010, donors to the AAF can choose to direct their gift towards one of three strategic priorities: scholarships, lifelong learning or the Dean's Development Fund. Every gift brings us one step closer towards our goals.

The Dean's Development Fund - £60,280.31

SUPPORTING ENTPRENEURIAL THINKING AND TEACHING AND ENSURING STUDENT SUPPORT REMAINS AT THE HEART OF OUR COMMUNITY

Gifts to the Dean’s Development Fund enable the School to fund to areas of current greatest need. Dean Peter Tufano oversees this fund, with the advisory support of key faculty. This year the funds will be split between Entrepreneurship and Scholarships.

The Entrepreneurship Centre will received £20,163.99, which will provide much needed fund the initiatives run at the centre such as the Seed Fund and Building a Business programmes.

A further £39,809.76 will be allocated to Scholarships, which continue to be one of the School’s top priorities. You can read more about the scholarships by clicking on the relevant link below.

*The remaining £306.56 consists of historic regular donations which are automatically allocated towards Phase II.

Scholarships - £56,190.24

(+ £39,809.76 from Dean's Development Fund)

ENABLING US TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN THE BEST CANDIDATES TO THE MBA, MFE AND EMBA PROGRAMMES

This incoming cohort (starting October 2015) will be the fourth cohort to have benefitted from alumni –funded scholarships and the funds raised will go towards both this cohort and the cohort following. As a result of your generosity, we are delighted that the funds raised this year, will provide the following scholarships;

Alumni Annual Fund Scholarships – 2x MBA scholarships and 2x MFE scholarships

Similar to our peers, the School is continues to be able to offer a number of merit-based scholarships to MBA and MFE students, thanks to generosity of the alumni community. Check out the 15/15 AAF scholars here – the 15/16 scholars will be announced in the coming month.

The Alumni Annual Fund Forté Fellowships for Women - 1 x MBA scholarship and 1 x EMBA scholarship

In partnership with the Forté Foundation, the School has established merit-based scholarships for female candidates to the MBA and EMBA programmes. More about the Forte Foundation can be found http://www.fortefoundation.org

Specific Scholarships

This year, there are three specific MBA Scholarships which have been raised as part of the Alumni Annual Fund 2014/15 Campaign. These are

  • Dean's Africa MBA Scholarship: For outstanding MBA candidates from Africa that demonstrate exceptional communication and leadership skills.
  • Grace Lakes AAF MBA Scholarship: For outstanding MBA candidates from Africa with a preference for candidates from Nigeria.
  • Wolfram Schmitt AAF MBA Scholarship: For outstanding MBA candidates that demonstrate exceptional communication and leadership skills. The funds for this have been raised by the MBA Class of 2004, in memory of a classmate.

For more information about creating a specific scholarship as part of the Alumni Annual Fund, please contact rachel.kirwan@sbs.ox.ac.uk.

Lifelong Learning (£7,802.99)

PROVIDING ALUMNI ACCESS TO WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH AND TEACHING

For the past two year, the Lifelong Learning fund has provided alumni with access to online-business databases at Library Databases. This year, in addition to the databases, the funds raised for Lifelong Learning will provide further opportunities for Alumni to engage in lifelong learning.

Dean's Development Fund Scholarships Lifelong Learning

Make a difference

It is worth remembering how much can be achieved by each alumnus giving what they can...

50 alumni donating £100 each pays for a year’s subscription of alumni journal access

25 alumni making a gift of £200 supports a Community Fund grant to help students tackle world-scale problems

20 alumni giving £30 a month for 5 years funds a full MFE scholarship