MSOD Director's Excellence Fund
The MSOD Director’s Excellence Fund plays a pivotal role in sustaining and enhancing the world-class quality of the MSOD program. Your contribution directly supports initiatives that keep the program relevant, impactful, and inclusive for current and future students.
Key areas of support include:
Learning Group Consultants (LGCs): These dedicated mentors are essential to the MSOD experience, providing hands-on guidance that shapes students’ learning and professional development. Without sufficient funding, we risk losing the invaluable contributions of LGCs. Your gift helps subsidize their travel and accommodations, ensuring their full participation.
Curriculum Innovation: Contributions to the Excellence Fund empower the program director to integrate cutting-edge research and address critical topics like JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) efforts. Recent enhancements to diversity, equity, and inclusion materials in the curriculum were made possible by gifts like yours.
By supporting the MSOD Director’s Excellence Fund, you ensure the program continues to lead in preparing transformative leaders while addressing the most pressing challenges of today’s organizations.
Join us in sustaining and advancing the excellence of MSOD. Your gift will fuel innovation, enrich mentorship, and develop the leaders of tomorrow.
MSOD Faculty Fund
The MSOD Faculty Research Fund fuels the innovative work of our esteemed faculty, advancing the field of Organization Development and strengthening the reputation of our MSOD program. Your support ensures that our faculty have the resources needed to produce groundbreaking research, publish influential studies, and shape best practices in the industry.
Key reasons to give:
Expand Our Reach: Faculty research not only enhances the MSOD program but also raises its profile globally, showcasing our leadership in driving meaningful change in organizations.
Support Our Thought Leaders: By contributing, you empower the faculty who have inspired and shaped MSOD students, enabling them to influence the future of OD through their cutting-edge research.
Shape the Future of Organizations: Faculty publications based on real-world, industry-focused research drive the change we want to see, advancing OD practices and principles worldwide.
Your gift to the MSOD Faculty Research Fund creates opportunities for impactful research that benefits the MSOD community and the broader field of Organization Development.
Join us in championing our faculty and driving innovation. Your gift will shape the future of OD and elevate the legacy of MSOD.
MSOD Founders Scholarship
The MSOD Founders Scholarship is a vital resource, ensuring that financial barriers do not stand in the way of talented individuals pursuing an MSOD education. By providing financial assistance to candidates who might not otherwise afford the program, the scholarship fosters diversity in its broadest sense—enriching the learning experience for all.
Over the years, recipients of the MSOD Founders Scholarship have included African American, Asian, Alaskan Native American, and Latinx students with countries of origin including Costa Rica, Ghana, Mexico, Italy, and China. Their diverse perspectives have not only shaped their journeys but also deepened the collective growth of their classmates and strengthened the “Long Grey Line” of MSOD alumni.
Your donation makes a direct impact:
It ensures that our student population reflects a broad spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, and voices.
It gives aspiring leaders the chance to benefit from the MSOD program and share their unique insights, enriching the experience for everyone.
By giving to the MSOD Founders Scholarship, you help create a program where diversity thrives, access expands, and every student has the opportunity to contribute to the legacy of transformative leadership.
Join us in making MSOD education accessible for all. Your gift will change lives and strengthen our future.
Nicole Jane Macbeth Hill Memorial Heidelberg Endowed Scholarship Fund
On May 11th, 2024, Nicole Jane Macbeth Hill passed away due to the impact of an unexpected and sudden cardiac arrest. Nicole was a treasure to those who knew her, and her sweet voice, kind heart, and generous spirit will be missed by many.
Nicole was a Seaver College alumnus (’04) and earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts. She utilized her degree to provide enriching learning experiences and positively shape the lives of many young children. Nicole taught kindergarten and volunteered in several local church preschool programs, but her greatest joy was extending her love of learning to her own two children.
A highlight of Nicole’s life and college experience was her participation in Pepperdine’s study abroad program in Heidelberg, Germany, during the 2001–2002 academic year. Through this program, she developed many lifelong friendships; it was even mutual friends from Heidelberg who eventually introduced her to her future husband, Brent. Nicole loved her abroad experience and made it a point to attend both her 10- and 20-year Heidelberg reunions, relishing the ability to reconnect with friends and relive the memories from a time and place in her life that were so special to her.
To help honor and remember Nicole, Pepperdine has created the Nicole Jane Macbeth Hill Memorial Fund to provide financial assistance to other Seaver College undergraduate students who wish to study abroad in Heidelberg.
Nicole is survived by her husband Brent Hill and their two children, David and Catherine, her parents, Charles and Anita Macbeth, and her brothers Chad (’08), Cameron, and John (’14).
The purpose of this scholarship is to help cover the International Program fees, expenses for the educational field trip, and/or other study abroad-related expenses for students in financial need and good academic standing who attend the Heidelberg program.
Our Four Angels Endowed Scholarship
On October 17, 2023, the Pepperdine community suffered the tragic loss of Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir, and Deslyn Williams, four Seaver College students.
These students were bright lights in the Pepperdine community and each one of these students had a special impact on everyone they met. Their absence will long be felt. In an effort to honor their memory, Pepperdine is establishing the "Our Four Angels Endowed Scholarship," which will help continue the legacies of Niamh, Peyton, Asha, and Deslyn.
School of Public Policy Dean's Excellence Fund
Gifts to the Dean's Excellence Fund allow us to provide support to the following:
Events: Like our Trinity Forum' Moral Sense in Politics & Policy Lecture Series', and various speakers like Stephen Goldsmith, Margarita Mooney, Dr. Patrick Deneen and others.
P4 Program Support: Dean's Excellence Funds support our growing' Pepperdine Policy Partners Program' (or' P4'), and provides funding so we can welcome groups of prospective students on to campus from organizations like PPIA, ISI, and others.
Student/Faculty Support: Dean's Excellence Funds are also used to support students and faculty needing funds to attend conferences and research symposia.
Large Gift Opportunity: Named/Endowed SPP Dean's Excellence Fund Gift (Inquire with Dean Peterson: Pete.N.Peterson@Pepperdine.edu)
School of Public Policy Scholarships
The Pepperdine University School of Public Policy awards a number of public policy scholarships to students each year. These awards are made available through endowed funds, gifts from supporters and alumni, and allocation of university general funds. The Scholarship Committee awards scholarships based on merit, need, academic and professional experience, as well as standardized test scores.
Scholarship funds allow us to support students, but they can also be a way you can help us target students from specific backgrounds.
School of Public Policy Student Emergency Fund
As we all learned during the pandemic, emergencies can strike at an instant. It is important as we enter this new era that we prepare our students for anything that may come their way. Your compassion and support helps us as we prepare for the unknown. Please consider joining School of Public Policy in protecting our students by making a gift to our Student Emergency Fund.
Social Entrepreneurship & Change program Fast Pitch
The Social Entrepreneurship & Change program prepares socially conscious individuals to make a lasting impact by analyzing complex social problems, creating sustainable market-based solutions, and improving management and leadership skills. Learning culminates with a two-term capstone project devising a new social enterprise or related project within an existing organization. Students develop a thorough business plan in collaboration with successful mentors and faculty who are scholar-practitioners and nationally recognized experts. Validated ideas are presented to industry leaders in a "Shark Tank" style Fast Pitch Competition with multiple participants receiving funding to launch their venture.
Help support the next generation of social entrepreneurs!