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Columbia Business School's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management Provides Scholarships for New York Times Company's Nonprofit Excellence Award Winners

    NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for
Not-for-Profit Management (INM), part of Columbia Business School Executive
Education, will provide scholarships to the four organizations honored by
the 2008 New York Times Company's Nonprofit Excellence Awards, announced
June 24, 2008. For the second consecutive year, the scholarships granted to
the winning organizations can be used for any INM program in management or
leadership.

    This year's winning organizations, Community Health Action of Staten
Island, Harlem RBI, Inc., Ifetayo Cultural Arts, located in Brooklyn, and
the Institute for Family Health, which serves the greater New York area,
will each be able to send an executive manager to participate in one of the
2008-2009 INM programs.

    The scholarships are in addition to the cash awards granted by the New
York Times.

    "We are proud to join the New York Times and the other Nonprofit
Excellence Awards supporters in honoring these outstanding organizations.
Each awardee has demonstrated exemplary leadership within the nonprofit
sector in New York City," says INM director Francine Lynch. "We look
forward to welcoming the winners to our programs, which focus on helping
nonprofit professionals fulfill their organizations' missions, more
effectively meet the needs of the populations they serve and succeed in the
nonprofit sector."

    About Columbia Business School Executive Education

    Columbia Business School's renowned Executive Education creates a
bridge between theory and practice by offering programs that deliver a
rich, global perspective. Columbia's nondegree open enrollment programs
address individual development needs in leadership and strategy, marketing,
and finance, providing executives with an understanding of powerful new
academic approaches and their application to achieve results. Through
Columbia's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM), participants can
enroll in programs that build organizational capacity and leadership in the
not-for-profit and public sectors. For more information, please visit
http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/execed/inm.



SOURCE Columbia Business School




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