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Supporting the Clinton School
Your support helps prepare leaders the world needs. This campaign to raise $20 million in scholarship funds will be transformative. Please join us.
A full two-year scholarship to the Clinton School, complete with a cost-of-living stipend, amounts to $50,000 in current-use funds – or can be endowed in perpetuity for $1 million.
Reaching our goal of raising $20 million in scholarship funds by 2026 is a key component in realizing a future vision for the School – supplying service-minded leaders the world needs and embodying President Clinton’s legacy appropriately.
An initial seed investment from the Clinton Foundation will enable the deployment of scholarship support that will make a meaningful difference to students and allow the best and brightest of our applicants to confidently choose the Clinton School.
Campaign donors are invited to consider endowing a scholarship in perpetuity, funding full or partial scholarships for a set number of years, or giving to offset field service stipends.
Your investment in scholarships will allow us to:
Strengthen Global Leadership
Develop Leaders & Strengthen Communities
Deepen Our Partnership with Arkansas
Build Opportunities to Advance Equity
Redefine the Classroom through Direct Experience
Encourage Entrepreneurial Approaches to Service
Strengthen Global Leadership
International students from across the world enroll at the Clinton School of Public Service, bringing with them global perspectives that enhance the experience of each cohort and enrich campus life.
The cultural diversity and unique lived experiences these students bring have become an integral part of the Clinton School experience.
International students from all economic backgrounds face financial and other logistical hurdles, including visa processing fees and moving costs.
Investing in scholarship support ensures the Clinton School competes to enroll promising emerging leaders from across the world.
Ibrahim Kirindiro, a native of Kasese, Uganda, chose to attend the Clinton School of Public Service after witnessing the work and impact of Beatrice Biira, a Clinton School graduate.
Now, through the Clinton School’s classroom work and field experiences, Ibrahim is learning how apply his knowledge-based public service toolkit to the work of his nonprofits in Uganda.
Develop Leaders & Strengthen Communities
Ambitious and high-potential undergraduate students who would thrive as part of the Clinton School family can be found in rural communities and cities throughout the American South, across the United States, and around the world.
Our research tells us that most alumni find purpose in serving their home communities, and many students choose the Clinton School knowing they will acquire distinct problem-solving techniques they can bring to that work.
Scholarships represent a direct investment in young people and an indirect investment in these communities.
Katie Milligan brings the power of public policy to building entrepreneurial communities in her role with Heartland Forward.
As the Program Manager for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she is able to tap into her passions of economic opportunity and social entrepreneurship.
The knowledge, experiences, and network Milligan gained at the Clinton School of Public Service helped her arrive at her “dream job.”
Deepen Our Partnership with Arkansas
Clinton School students, faculty, and partners all take part in the civic and community life of Arkansas, and Arkansas figures strongly in the experiences of Clinton School students, affording opportunities for hands-on engagement with Fortune-500 businesses, government agencies, and global and local nonprofits.
Students help create sustainable transformation, further strengthening Arkansas.
As our power to recruit high-potential students increases, so does the quality of our service to Arkansas communities and institutions.
Brandon Mathews enrolled at the Clinton School of Public Service with a vested interest in food insecurity on college campuses.
Not only was he a student volunteer as an undergraduate at the Full Circle Campus Food Pantry at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, he was also a client.
Mathews used his Capstone project at the Clinton School to create a how-to manual for creating and operating food pantries on college campuses in Arkansas.
Build Opportunities to Advance Equity
Friends of the Clinton School know that our common humanity is the foundation from which each of us will create transformative, sustainable change in the world.
The more varied the backgrounds of each MPS learning cohort, and the more freedom alumni have to let exciting challenges define their career paths, the more good Clinton School graduates can do.
A deeply diverse student body sets all students on the path of communicating productively across differences. We must ensure this degree is financially accessible in addition to being a high-quality experience.
Shamim Okolloh, a 2012 graduate of the Clinton School of Public Service, is Vice President, Community Outreach Officer at Encore Bank.
Okolloh, who spent more than a decade in the nonprofit sector, is now creating lasting impact for individuals and families in the private sector.
A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Okolloh oversees Encore Bank’s outreach program in Central Arkansas with a focus on financial inclusion for the underserved minority community that is often unbanked and underbanked.
Redefine the Classroom through Direct Experience
Intensive experiential learning defines the Clinton School, and it has since our founding days.
Clinton School field service opportunities go far beyond conventional internships, and often determine the course of a student’s future.
Every student takes part in an increasingly independent sequence of three field service engagements. This hallmark learning experience calls Clinton School students to lead – and shine – as they learn.
Encourage Entrepreneurial Approaches to Service
In its nearly 20 years, the Clinton School has gathered insights on methods of empowering entrepreneurial modes of serving.
Many Clinton School students earn simultaneous degrees in law or business, and/or envision realizing impact via careers in corporate social responsibility.
An investment in scholarships is an investment in leadership that breaks molds.