How to Donate

Support our mission to change the face of American business

Philanthropic contributions to The Consortium are an investment in the MBA diversity pipeline — a pipeline that is extremely fragile. African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans represent less than 10 percent of the population attending the top 50 full-time graduate business schools.

With Your Support, We’ve Made a Difference

Since our inception in 1966, we’ve contributed $665 million in fellowship support, enabling us to introduce more than 12,000 diverse MBAs to the global marketplace.

Philanthropic contributions enable us to further advance our mission, along with our powerful network of member schools, corporate partners, students and alumni who provide access, opportunity and exposure to the best and brightest MBA candidates. Please consider making a donation now. Your donations:

  • Sustain and enhance our recruitment efforts.
  • Support our comprehensive Orientation Program & Career Forum.
  • Help provide up to full-tuition fellowships to Consortium Fellows.

How Can You Help

We’ve made it easy, with several ways to support our mission.

Annual Fund

Consortium alumni, students, and friends express their support for our organization through gifts to the Annual Fund. We put these unrestricted contributions to use immediately to help execute a comprehensive Orientation Program & Career Forum, to support students, engage alumni, develop new programs, and enable the continuing evolution of our organization. We invite you to become a partner in creating a dynamic future for The Consortium by contributing to the Annual Fund.

Wallace L. Jones Endowment Fund

Wallace (Wally) L. Jones contributed many years of dedicated service to The Consortium and touched the lives of thousands of its students and alumni. To honor Wally’s memory, The Consortium established the Wallace L. Jones Endowment in 1999. Each year, The Consortium awards a stipend from the endowment to outstanding first-year students who attend each of our member schools. The Wallace L. Jones Endowment Fund has awarded $68,000 to 58 Consortium students. In the fund’s early years, only one student each year received a $1,000 stipend from the Fund. Because of donors’ generous support, we have steadily increased the Fund’s annual giving to provide a $1,000 stipend for one student at each of our member schools. We recognize the recipient at the annual Orientation Program & Career Forum.

Our goal is to increase the Fund enough to award a fellowship equal to one year’s tuition each year, but we cannot achieve it without you! We invite you to donate to the Wallace L. Jones Endowment Fund right now by clicking here to help The Consortium continue its legacy of excellence and change!

School Fund

Consortium alumni donors have the option of directing their gifts to their Consortium alma mater. Donors who make school-directed gifts are acknowledged by The Consortium. However, these gifts are transmitted to the stated Consortium business school. You will receive tax receipts for your gift from the business school. Please contact the development office of your business school to ensure your gifts are directed toward the appropriate fund in support of Consortium initiatives. We can only accept school-transmitted gifts by check, with the gift made out to The Consortium/School Name. Support your Consortium school by making a school-directed gift.

Leslie Adkins Memorial Fund

Leslie Adkins was a vibrant, enthusiastic member of The Consortium family. Originally from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., she earned her bachelor’s in government and French studies at Dartmouth College before completing a master’s in broadcast journalism at Columbia University. At the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Leslie was a fellow in both the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management and the Forté Foundation. She was an active member in many MBA student organizations and held positions of leadership in the Business of Entertainment Association. In addition to her MBA, she was also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in the Business of Entertainment through the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Professionally, she had a passion for entertainment, technology, media and news. She had interned at both Apple and Paramount Pictures.

Make Your Charitable Contribution

You can donate online, or mail your contribution to:

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Attn: Individual Giving
229 Chesterfield Business Parkway
Chesterfield, MO 63005

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management is a 501 c(3) Nonprofit.
Gifts to the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Our Federal Tax Identification Number is 43-0962198.