Philanthropy in Action
Major Gifts News Round-Up
Here’s a snapshot of several major gifts—from $25,000 to $3 million—that encompass a wide range of giving opportunities: from medicine to honey bees to Skagit County Extension.
- When alumnus Alexander Swantz passed away last June at the age of 101, a pledged gift from the Swantz family created the Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz Distinguished Professorship in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.
Read the WSU Insider story. - Alumna Nancy Kercheval made a gift of $150,000 to honor her mother, Ruth Wylie, that will help fund the Ruth Wylie Head House—a research hub at WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon. Wylie, also an alumna, was Skagit County’s first woman commissioner and county treasurer.
Read the WSU Insider story. - With the aim of helping curb food insecurity among students, Lamb Weston made a third donation of $25,000 to Cougar Cupboard, the WSU Tri-Cities food pantry.
Read the WSU Insider story. - President Kirk Schulz and First Lady Noel Schulz, along with Chancellor Sandra Haynes, were the first to donate for naming rights for the new state-of-the-art academic building set to open this fall at WSU Tri-Cities.
Read the WSU Insider story. - A $500,000 gift from an anonymous couple was the latest in a series of significant contributions made to support the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s first family medicine residency program in Pullman.
Read the WSU Insider story. - This anonymous gift builds on a $250,000 gift from alumni Tom and Linda Nihoul, also in support of the medical residency program in Pullman.
Read the WSU Insider story. - Northwest Farm Credit Services donated $2 million to multiple programs, including honey bee research, tree fruit research, viticulture and enology, dairy science, 4-H, irrigated and dryland farm research, and the WSU chapter of the student organization Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS).
Read the WSU Insider story. - A $3 million gift from the Rosalie & Harold Rea Brown Foundation will establish an endowed chair in plant pathology, with the aim of reducing losses caused by plant diseases and thereby improving food security.
Read the WSU Insider story. - The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation made a gift of more than $1.5 million to support the new Life Sciences Teaching Laboratory, under development at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center on the Tri-Cities campus.
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