The Foundation for Research and Development in Business Administration, Accounting and Economics - FUNDACE - is a non-profit organization created in 1995 by professors from RIbeirão Preto's faculty of Economics, Business Adminsitrations, and Accounting - FEA-RP/usp - to expedite the integration of university and community. Located in Ribeirão Preto and São Paulo, FUNDACE has the mission of developing research projects and offering specialization and qualification graduate courses for executives, providing services, extension, and business solutions. FUNDACE is in charge of organizing the knowledge, resources at FEA-RP/USP to meet the demand of society as well as those of public and private organizations which are interestied in more modern and efficient business management pratices. FUNDACE also plays the important role of fomenting the production and spread of knowledge in Business Administration, Accounting, and Exonomics, fostering professor's and student's knowledge and expertise. FUNDACE is already nine years as one of the best brazilian MBA at ranking of "VOCE SA" magazine.