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Aon and NFP — Beyond the Loan (EXT-007)

Summary 🟡 ~

  • Owner Unit: External partner organization
  • Sub-unit: Aon plc / NFP (an Aon company) — research collaboration
  • Content Type: partnership
  • Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago headquarters; global firm)
  • Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Organization

Aon is a global professional services firm focused on risk, health, and wealth solutions. NFP, an Aon company, provides insurance, benefits, and wealth management services. Together they operate analytics and insights platforms used in applied research partnerships.

Access status

  • Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
  • Rationale: Aon/NFP partnership supports SPARK health-equity work; external corporate resources are not DePaul open-access facilities.
  • Access URL: www.aon.com
  • Contact name: SPARK Center
  • Contact email: spark@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-05-30
  • Source URLs:
  • www.aon.com
  • spark.depaul.edu

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul and SPARK (UNI-003) participate in a joint research venture with Aon and NFP on community banking and small-business resilience—translating faculty analytics into industry-facing tools and national study outputs.

Known collaborations & connections

  • Beyond the Loan: Community Banks, Small Business Owners and Human Resilience — three-year national research collaboration among DePaul, Aon, and NFP using predictive modeling and human-sustainability frameworks to support community banks serving underrepresented and women-owned small businesses (SPARK partner projects).
  • SPARK news posts describe a broader DePaul–Aon joint research venture extending beyond a single study.
  • DePaul faculty contributors cited in SPARK/Aon public materials (for example James Bort, DePaul University).

Collaborative documents

Document type Scope Parties Status Source
Research collaboration / joint venture Beyond the Loan national study and related SPARK industry–academia work DePaul ↔ Aon ↔ NFP Publicly announced via SPARK SPARK partner projects
Sponsored research agreement Three-year project scope, data, and deliverables DePaul ↔ Aon/NFP Not publicly posted Map verification (May 2026)
MOU (institutional) Standing DePaul–Aon research framework DePaul ↔ Aon Described at venture level; full text not public SPARK news summaries

Verification

  • Status: likely (~)
  • Confidence: 86/100
  • Rationale: Major external partner maintains active public website and standard user/membership access pathways; DePaul relationship documented on map.
  • Last verified: 2026-05-30
  • Evidence:
  • Partner primary website reachable (May 2026)
  • DePaul cross-references and partnership notes in resource map (May 2026)
  • Aon/NFP sites active
  • SPARK partnership noted

Equipment

External nonprofit partner; not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Industry research partner for SPARK Data Vision projects on community banking and entrepreneurship ecosystems.

Linked Relationship IDs

Notes

Corporate partner; agreement details subject to confidential sponsored-research terms.