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Dorothy B. Brothers Executive Scholarship Program

The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), along with Bank of America, and its extended family of suppliers and business partners suffered a great loss in the passing of Dorothy Brothers in July 2002. Ms. Brothers was a Supplier Diversity & Development executive, and WBENC board member. Her accomplishments greatly helped diversity suppliers grow and successfully participate in competitive procurement opportunities within corporate America. She founded WBENC’s executive management scholarship program in order for women business owners to have access to the same high caliber management education that is available to Fortune 500 companies and in 2004 the scholarship program was branded with her name.

The Dorothy B. Brothers Executive Scholarship will provide a framework to enable women-owned businesses to formulate and implement business strategies to achieve the competitive advantage in the new millennium. Through this program, scholarship administrators will award executive management scholarships annually to qualifying, certified women business owners. These scholarships will provide these owners access to continuing executive management education.

Awards are given to owners of WBENC-certified WBEs only. Each award provides a scholarship of up to $4,500 in tuition to an approved executive level course (see examples listed below). Scholarships are awarded annually to 13 women business owners (one per Regional Partner Organization) by The Scholarship Selection Committee.

Candidate Eligibility

Candidates should meet the following criteria for scholarship consideration:

• Currently certified as a women business enterprise by WBENC
• Have at least three-to-five years experience running a business
• Employs at lease three full-time employees
• Maintains a minimum annual sales volume of $500,000 (the range is $500,000 to $50,000,000)
• Has not previously attended a comparable executive management program (TUCK-WBENC Executive Program graduates are eligible to apply but preference will be given to WBEs that have not already received a scholarship)

Any exceptions to the eligibility criteria should be explained in detail in the essay.

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Scholarship award recipients will be notified by mail upon final selection.

Approved Schools

As an ongoing process, WBENC reviews the education programs currently identified for availability, criteria and value to ensure that they comply with WBENC's goals and objectives. Additional programs may be added as appropriate. Education programs are selected to meet the developmental needs of the scholarship winners.

Currently, the following Executive Programs are identified:

• Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
• Berkeley Center for Executive Development, Univ. of California at Berkeley
• Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
• Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
• Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Harvard Business School
• McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
• University of Southern California
• University of California at Los Angeles
• Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
• Hass School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
• Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

2007 Recipients

For further information about this program, contact Elsie Gomes- Hudson at 202-872-5515 x 8023 or e-mail.

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