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Contact: Jan Fiderio at 603.283.2107

(Keene, NH) April 1, 2010

Antioch University New England Receives Challenge Grant

The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust supports MBA scholarship

Antioch University New England (AUNE) has received a challenge grant from the Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust. The $5000 grant will provide scholarship support for students in AUNE's Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (Green MBA) program.

The Foundation's connection to Antioch University New England is multi-generational. Foundation trustee, Eugenie W. Maine, is an Antioch University New England MAT '68 graduate. Carrying on the family connection to AUNE are daughters Sarah Maine, who is a second year Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (Green MBA) student, and Valerie Maine, who is a third year AUNE PsyD student.

The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, was founded in 2007. The trust has awarded over forty grants since its inception, and as a memorial to Ruth and Hal Launders, bestows funds to worthy organizations that seek to better mankind.

The trust's mission is to act as a catalyst to advance the development, self-sufficiency, and sustainability among vulnerable populations and their support systems. Grant beneficiaries lie largely within the areas of education, homelessness, physical and mental abuse, and children's welfare. To learn more visit: www.rhlct.org.

About the Organizational and Environmental Sustainability Scholarship Students in AUNE's Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (Green MBA) program will be eligible to apply for this scholarship starting in the summer of 2010. If you would like to support this scholarship or would like to learn more, please contact Faith Linsky, director of AUNE's Office of Development and Alumni Relations. You can reach Faith at: 603-283-2163 or via email at: flinsky@antioch.edu.

About AUNE's Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (Green MBA) program Students of Antioch New England's Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (Green MBA) program learn what most will expect in an MBA program, plus the unexpected. The AUNE Green MBA curriculum considers not only sustainable business practices, economics, and finance, but also the natural environment, leadership, systems thinking, and collaboration. The program prepares graduates for a variety of roles in for-profit, not-for-profit, public-sector organizations, and their own businesses while emphasizing organizational and environmental sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. To learn more visit: www.antiochne.edu/om/mba

About Antioch University New England (AUNE)
This is Antioch University New England's forty-sixth year as an institution of higher education. Located in Keene, New Hampshire, AUNE offers rigorous, practice-oriented, values-based master's, doctoral, and certificate programs to more than one thousand students. Degrees in education, leadership and management, environmental studies, and psychology reflect a dedication to activism, social justice, community service, and sustainability. Antioch University New England is the oldest and largest of Antioch University’s graduate campuses. For more information about Antioch University New England visit our web site at: www.antiochne.edu.

About Antioch University
Antioch University, a visionary academic community composed of five campuses in four states, is uniquely capable of bringing its students' brightest ideals and highest ambitions to life. Each campus has its own distinct academic programs, community life, and regional or national identity. Antioch University is founded on principles of rigorous liberal arts education, innovative experiential learning and socially engaged citizenship. The multiple campuses of the University nurture in their students the knowledge, skills and habits of reflection to excel as lifelong learners, democratic leaders, and global citizens who live lives of meaning and purpose. For more information visit: www.antioch.edu.

Last Updated: 4/1/10