Grants That Make a Difference
"Grants that Make a Difference" highlights grants given to Southeastern organizations that have helped make a difference in people's lives. Getting the grant is only the beginning of the story. At least once a month, "Grants That Make a Difference" will profile these important grants and what their recipients are doing with them.
The Atlanta-based
Georgia Institute of Technology has announced the creation of the
Tennenbaum Institute, a multidisciplinary center to create industry-shaping business models established through a $5
million gift from alumnus Michael Tennenbaum.
The institute will bring together academic, government, and corporate experts to focus on developing business practices that help existing organizations become more cost-effective and competitive through technological and market innovations,
and will address private and public sector enterprises in diverse areas, including aerospace, banking, defense, education,
health care, nonprofits, telecommunications, and transportation.
Tennenbaum, a Wall Street veteran who invests in companies in desperate need of change, saw a need for a
multidisciplinary approach to organization transformation. "I think education has gotten so specialized that there's a big
opportunity to build more knowledge by combining different specialties, rather than just to keep drilling down deeper into
one specialty," he said.
The institute will conduct research on the interdisciplinary nature of enterprise transformation, identify and evaluate
successful approaches for achieving transformation, and disseminate knowledge through publications, meetings, education,
and outreach. "Our job is not necessarily to solve a business or organization's problems today," said William B. Rouse, executive director of the Tennenbaum Institute and the
H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. "Our job is to anticipate its emerging problems in a five-year or so time horizon and to research the best ways of understanding and addressing those problems."
"The Tennenbaum Institute represents an opportunity for Georgia Tech to excel at multidisciplinary research and
education in its broadest sense and consequently impact our understanding of major economic and social issues as well as
contribute to these issues being addressed," said Rouse.
The Institute would, for example, be able to help member companies determine which emerging technologies will be available in five or ten years and how adopting these technologies could change the way these companies do business or interact with their customers.
Recipient Contact Information:
Recipient Name:Georgia Institute of Technology
Address: Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Phone: 404-894-2300
FAX: 404-894-2301
URL: http://www.isye.gatech.edu/
The selection of organizations for the "Grants that Make a Difference" is based on criteria such as programmatic interests, geographic focus, and size of funding programs to ensure the broadest possible representation of the region's nonprofit sector.
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