Presidio Graduate School

Presidio Graduate School has received the largest donation in its 13-year history, a $3,000,000 grant from the Palo Alto-based Enlight Foundation. 

“We are both honored and delighted to have the Enlight Foundation as a partner in PGS’s growth,” said William Shutkin, PGS’s President and CEO. “The foundation and its president, Xin Liu, are as committed as we are to educating world-class leaders prepared to change the world, and to advancing the emerging field of sustainable management. Like PGS, the Enlight Foundation knows what it means to be a small organization with an outsized impact. The gift is catalytic for us, allowing us to spread our wings a bit organizationally and internationally over the next several years.” 

The gift will provide $1M in the first year, then $500,000 for each of following four years, to be directed to scholarships, faculty and program infrastructure, with an additional amount in year 1 to support PGS’s new online program, to be launched later in 2016.

For more information about the Enlight Foundation gift, please contact Summer Meyer, Development Associate, at 415.655.8942 or summer.meyer@presidio.edu

About Presidio Graduate School: Founded in 2003, PGS educates and inspires a new generation of skilled, visionary and enterprising leaders to transform business and public policy and create a more just, prosperous and sustainable world. Through innovative MBA, MPA, Dual Degree and professional development programs in Sustainable Management, and a flexible, affordable hybrid residency model, PGS activates students and professionals across a range of disciplines, industries and sectors to bridge the gap between commerce and the common good. PGS has been ranked the #1 sustainable business school in the world two years in a row (2013, 2014) by Net Impact. In 2015, The New York Times called PGS the best business school to attend “if you want to change the world.

Presidio Graduate School

Presidio Graduate School

Founded in 2002, Presidio Graduate School (PGS) is a values-driven graduate school offering MBA, MPA, and Dual MBA/MPA degree programs and Professional Certificates in Sustainable Solutions. All courses in the first of its kind curriculum integrate social justice, environmental responsibility, and systems thinking.

A world-class faculty academy of full and part-time scholar-practitioners possess subject matter expertise across the full spectrum of sustainability disciplines. With over 1900 business and public administration alumni at the forefront of the field, PGS is a global hub for sustainability innovation and regenerative impact, helping forge a new definition of the common good at the intersection of for-profit and for-benefit. Learn more about PGS programs, people, and impact at presidio.edu.

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