"The greatest Christmas gift I got was opening that letter," says Wallis Cale, quality systems director at the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank, a nonprofit organization that is one of the world's largest providers of corneas for transplant and ocular tissue for research. That letter announced Cale as one of the ten inaugural winners of the 2010 Carlson Executive Education scholarship, a program designed to offer assistance to small companies, nonprofit organizations, and entrepreneurs that need additional business knowledge to overcome challenges or capitalize on opportunities. Cale, along with the other winners, received 100 percent funding for a Carlson Executive Education open enrollment program, a value of $3500.