Summary: Play Now: Preparing for your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam? Try PMP exam prep on your phone, tablet or PC: Suketu Nagrecha and Cornelius Fichtner The Project Management Institute (PMI)® Educational Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization, with the mission to inspire and empower people to realize their potential and transform their lives and their communities through the use of project management knowledge. This interview with Suketu Nagrecha, PMIEF Chair, was recorded at the 2016 PMI Global Congress in San Diego, California. We discuss: The history of PMIEF How PMIEF can help you with - Scholarships - Grants - Awards How you can apply for a scholarship, grant, or award How your or your employer can become a PMIEF donor And we'll hear a story from a project manager whom PMIEF helped in his career Full disclosure: My own company is a PMIEF donor and offers certification scholarships. If you are thinking of earning a PMI scholarship but lack the means to do so then please visit https://www.project-management-prepcast.com/scholarships to learn how to apply. Episode Transcript Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Cornelius Fichtner: You are listening to the Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com and we are coming to you live from the 2016 PMI Global Congress in sunny Southern California in San Diego. Podcast Interview Cornelius Fichtner: With me today is Suketu Nagrecha. You are the 2016 chair of the PMI Educational Foundation, did I get that right? Suketu Nagrecha: Absolutely, you did get that right Cornelius: Hello Suketu. Welcome to the program. Suketu: Thank you very much. Happy to be here. Cornelius: Yeah. Can you give us a high-level overview of PMIEF, the PMI Educational Foundation. What does the organization do? Suketu: The PMIEF was founded in 1990 and it’s the philanthropic arm of PMI. It’s a separate incorporator organization on the PMI and we leverage Project Management for social good. So that’s our primary objective and the way we go about it is we achieve our vision and mission through three different pillars as we call it in our organization. These are PM-Knowledgeable Youth, PM-Capable Non-Profits and PM-Ready Work Force. We have three different arenas that we work through and that’s how we try to get our programs done. Cornelius: OK. Your role as the chair, what exactly do you do? Suketu: This is a Board of Directors that I’m on with PMIEF and we have responsibility for setting a strategic direction and we also have shared responsibilities and performance of the organization that we monitor as a Board of Directors. Cornelius: And then you also have an Executive Team, I assume. Suketu: The Exhibitor Team with our staff team, they actually carry out the programs in detail that the Board set the direction for. Cornelius: So, the mission of PMIEF, where do we start it, what is the mission? Suketu: For the mission, I will read out the mission word by word, “is to inspire and empower people to realize their potential and transform their lives and their communities through the use of Project Management Knowledge. We feel that this Mission strongly represents the work of our Foundation. Cornelius: And it ties back nicely with the Project Management for Social Good, I think. Suketu: Absolutely, it does. Cornelius: What is the relationship between PMI and PMIEF these days? It was founded as a separate philanthropic organization. Suketu: Both PMI and PMIEF, they’re focused on the value, application and practice of Project Management. Boards are for the PMI’s strategic plan. The PMI they view Project Management as a professional com
