Philanthropy in Action
Major Gifts News Round-Up
Donor passions and interests benefit wide-ranging programs, system-wide.
Philanthropic investments are opening doors across WSU this fall, from first-generation students to a first-of-its-kind clinical simulation space in Spokane to the Indoor Practice Facility in Pullman.
- WSU Spokane’s Native American Health Sciences (NAHS) program will build what is believed to be the nation’s first indigenous-developed and -instructed clinical simulation space at the Center for Native American Health on campus, thanks to a $250,000 grant from Bank of America.
Read More - Several WSU programs that support the success of first-generation students will share a $100,000 gift from The Boeing Company.
Read More - A $3.5 million anonymous gift to WSU’s Carson College of Business will increase opportunities for accounting majors to prepare for careers, while also funding recruitment efforts and operations within the program.
Read More - A life-long passion for animals and personal friendship with WSU alumnus and veterinarian Kyle Frandle (’74 BS, ’76 MS, ’80 DVM), inspired Ed and Lorraine Bargagliotti to gift more than $1.5 million of their estate to establish a scholarship in WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and support the college’s Diagnostic Challenges and Rabies vaccination programs.
Read More - From upcycling agricultural waste to cancer research in Tasmanian devils, six projects proposed by WSU researchers received $125,000 in funding during the second round of Cougar Cage.
Read More - WSU alumnus Darren Alger and wife, Jamie, committed a transformational gift to the Indoor Practice Facility (IPF)—a permanent, state-of-the-art climate-controlled facility for student-athletes to train year-round. With their gift, Cougar Athletics surpassed the fundraising goal for the project.
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