Funds will go to student stipends for an on-campus, high-impact internship with the Center, which offers critical skills training such as: lead-gen, professional selling, online marketing, social media management, digital design, videography, and principles of business development.

Funds will be allocated to support students' out-of-city internships, industry interviews, sales competitions, and conference gatherings (e.g., "Dreamforce - Salesforce Conference"). Too often, highly talented students are forced to pass opportunities due to cost prohibitive travel. Your gift will enable students to expand their professional reach and elevate their early-entry career positioning.

Funds will go toward entry fees for sales competitions and various "boot camps," that offer accelerated learning with live selling challenges. Funds will also go toward "nano-degrees," which are accelerated skills development courses offered from elite institutions and management consulting programs. These skills training opportunities often focus on high-level technological training (e.g., data analytics for sales professionals) that are transferable to any career. Along with the Certificate in Consultative Selling offered by the Center, these added skills training opportunities create a distinguishing, competitive advantage for our graduating students.

We aim for all of our sales students to enter industry with certifications in the following: Salesforce, Advanced Google Analytics, Python (code), and R (code). These certifications can be cost prohibitive for students, and your gift will enable every sales student to enter the marketplace with critical, immediately applicable knowledge and a competitive advantage. The future of sales involves technological training that incorporates data science, analytics, and high-level CRM. We look forward to ensuring our students are prepared, trainable, and ready for a dynamic, technologically-infused career to supplement their exceptional interpersonal skills.

Top sales students will receive performance and merit-based acknowledgment for their work ethic, follow-through, and prospective value in the marketplace. Scholarships are a form of early stage investing in the career and future of precocious talent. Scholarships have an economic impact and a long-term ROI. Students will more seamlessly enter the marketplace and achieve optimal, highly-remunerative positions. As with any sales role, all stakeholders will benefit. This is one area where gifts dramatically propel careers.