July 3, 2025
The Foundation for Packaging Education is putting your donations to work. Since its launch in 2020, the foundation has been receiving pledged money regularly. We are pleased to say that funding has reached critical mass—$3 million.
At the Spring Meeting, the foundation’s board of directors approved the allocation of monies for four initiatives: two related to the support of AICC’s Packaging University and two that will provide scholarships for two newly developed advanced study programs.
AICC’s Packaging University has grown to nine colleges offering more than 150 courses in English and Spanish. As the complexity of the Packaging University has grown, so has the need to better serve the students. The foundation will now fund:
- LMS Administrator—a professional online education resource that will improve quality, check platform performance, resolve issues quickly, and make recommendations for improvements.
- LMS Course Creator—an educational resource experienced in corrugated and paper-based packaging tasked with course creation, relevance, and implementation.
AICC has also created two “graduate” level courses of study to grow the leadership characteristics of young people in our industry:
- A “Next-Gen” program for those on or destined for ownership and C-suite positions.
- A “Masters of Packaging” program for those on or destined for high-level nonownership tracks.
The foundation will fund scholarships for the launch classes of these two programs.
Building a bedrock base for AICC’s education programming is the mission for the Foundation for Packaging Education. These first fundings are a small start on the way to bigger and better things. Thanks to your generosity, construction is underway. Watch us grow!
If you are not yet a part of the Foundation for Packaging Education crew, please visit www.packaginged.org or scan the QR code on this page to make your pledge or donation. No amount is too large or too small.
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