POISE Foundation Scholarship Manager, Dr. Tchetchet Digbohou, Joins National Scholarship Provider Association Board of Directors

PITTSBURGH, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — POISE Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Tchetchet Digbohou has been confirmed as a member of the National Scholarship Provider Association’s (NSPA) Board of Directors for a renewable 3-year term starting in January of 2021. 

 

Tchetchet Digbohou (pronounced chay’chay’ dig-bo-oo) is an educator, passionate educational adviser and a published author. As POISE Foundation’s Scholarship Manager, he oversees the entire portfolio of scholarship programs, designs new ones, and leads the foundation’s outreach to students, parents, community partners, high schools and college/universities. 

 

In his new role on the NSPA Board of Directors, Dr. Digbohou is now a part of North America’s premier organization dedicated to supporting the needs of professionals administering scholarships in colleges and universities, private/community foundations, and public charities as well as to advancing the collective impact of the scholarships they award. NSPA includes over 500 member-organizations from the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas which collectively provide 827,327 scholarships amounting to $4,275,054,382 (over 4 billion) each year. A part of their work includes coordinating The NSPA Annual Conference, which is the convergence of the scholarship industry bringing nearly 600 diverse scholarship funders together for three days of networking and learning.

 

NSPA Board Directors are the fiduciaries who steer the organization towards a sustainable future by determining strategic objectives, adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial and risk management policies and practices.

 

When asked about the impact of this board appointment, Dr. Digbohou comments, “Getting called to serve on the NSPA Board of Directors by my peers does not just honor me personally, it illustrates the trust that scholarship providers put in such organizations as POISE Foundation. As an NSPA Board member, I am determined to be an ambassador for POISE’s values and a dependable voice for transformative and community-minded scholarship making.”

 

“We at POISE Foundation are proud to see Dr. Digbohou receive this prestigious appointment. He will be a valuable asset to the National Scholarship Provider Association because of his deep knowledge and expertise administering scholarship programs and his track record in advancing and supporting student achievement,” says Karris Jackson, Chief Operating Officer, POISE Foundation.

 

For more information about POISE Foundation, visit www.poisefoundation.org or call Gray Montague at (412) 871-8889. To learn more about the National Scholarship Provider Association, visit www.scholarshipproviders.org.

 

More About Dr. Tchetchet Digbohou
Although Tchetchet spent some of his early career in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, he ended up embracing his true passion: education. A former EducationUSA student adviser with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education, Tchetchet worked for several years as a college faculty and as an independent recruiter and adviser for such organizations as ELS Educational Services and the California State university system. In 2017, he published “The Secret to Winning an International Scholarship”, a comprehensive guide to successfully applying for international scholarships based on his experience advising students and scholars looking for funding opportunities, the best practices learned from fellow scholarship advisers worldwide, and his own experience as a student.

 

In 2003, Tchetchet was awarded the prestigious Fulbright scholarship which enabled him to pursue a fully-funded Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the Monterey Institute for International Studies in California. Dr. Digbohou is also a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education where he earned a Doctorate in Education with an emphasis on Social and Comparative Analysis. Tchetchet is engaged in K-12 and higher education as an independent scholar, public speaker and volunteer.

 

About National Scholarship Provider Association
The NSPA is a membership association that brings together private foundations, public charities, colleges and universities, corporate giving programs, and government agencies from across North America that provide scholarships for higher education. Its mission is to advance the collective impact of scholarship providers and the scholarships they award. NSPA supports its over 360 member organizations through professional development opportunities, industry effective practices, research, and policy advocacy. 

 

About POISE Foundation
POISE Foundation was created to assist the Black community in achieving self-sustaining practices, through strategic leadership, collective giving, grantmaking and advocacy. Created in the format of a Community Foundation, POISE receives funds from a variety of donors. These funds may be unrestricted, and used to support POISE Foundation’s grantmaking strategy, or donor-directed for specific charitable purposes. Over the past 36 years, POISE Foundation has grown from an initial capitalization of $164K to a present value in excess of $7M. During this same period, POISE has returned to the community that nurtured it more than $10,000,000 in grants and scholarships to deserving organizations and families in the Pittsburgh area and throughout the United States.