Empowering Impact Leaders

At Michigan Ross, we put our money where our mouth is. Our dedication to students pursuing careers in impact goes beyond the classroom. In addition to scholarships from the Erb Institute and Sanger Leadership Center, Ross provides Loan Repayment Assistance through its dedicated Financial Aid department. Learn about other key funding avenues below:

Scholarships

Since 2017, the Skip and Carrie Gordon Scholarship fund has awarded $60,000 to twelve MBAs (including Emma K. Smith, above) pursuing social impact while students at Michigan Ross. The newly-minted LeRoy Gordon Scholarship fund has been awarding similar scholarships since 2021.

Business+Impact administers these scholarships to worthy second year MBA students at Michigan Ross who have demonstrated a commitment to making a social impact in the world. These $5,000 scholarships fund the work of these students while at U-M and after graduation.

Impact Advantage

Michigan Ross’ new Impact Advantage

Loan Repayment Assistance Program

offers full-time MBA graduates up to $37,500 in loan support for those pursuing careers in social impact.

SKIP & CARRIE GORDON AND LEROY GORDON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS Summer Fund

Each summer, Business+ Impact awards competitive grants for summer internships to MBAs and BBA juniors in the Ross School of Business as well as MPP students in the Ford School of Public Policy. MBA funding comes from the Give-A-Day Fund, which allows MBAs from typical internships to donate a day of their pay to fund social impact interns. Summer funding also comes from a General Motors corporate sponsorship.

Additionally, the newly established Jason Gordon Impact Entrepreneurship Fund provides support for BBA or MBA student interns (like Dimitri Giraldo, pictured above with internship funder Jason Gordon) working with ventures or funders seeking to create societal impact.

Maab Ibrahim (MBA/MPP ’16) is the Inclusion grantmaking lead at Google.org, a datadriven, human-focused philanthropy powered by Google. Through a unique blend of funding, products, and technical expertise from Google volunteers, she is currently accelerating the progress of nonprofits that use data science and innovative new approaches to advance social justice. While at Ross, she served as a senior associate on the UM Social Venture Fund, and interned at the White House before that.

A career in social impact is equal parts subject-matter expertise to define the challenge and business savvy to make the case for solutions. I often speak of the Ford School as a place for me to sharpen the ‘what’ and Ross as a place to perfect the ‘how.’