{"id":266,"date":"2021-08-30T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/?p=266"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T00:39:13","slug":"nb-sep21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/nb-sep21\/","title":{"rendered":"NB-Sep21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"margin:0;padding:0;letter-spacing:2px\">Philanthropy in Action<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"margin:0 0 25px 0;padding:0;color:#981e32\">Major Gifts News Round-Up<\/h1>\n<p>Here\u2019s a snapshot of several major gifts\u2014from $25,000 to $3 million\u2014that encompass a wide range of giving opportunities: from medicine to honey bees to Skagit County Extension. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">When alumnus Alexander Swantz passed away last June at the age of 101, <b>a pledged gift from the Swantz family created the Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz Distinguished Professorship<\/b> in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/10\/20\/longtime-alumni-bestow-distinguished-professorship-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>Alumna Nancy Kercheval made a gift of $150,000 to honor her mother, Ruth Wylie, that will help fund the Ruth Wylie Head House<\/b>\u2014a research hub at WSU\u2019s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon. Wylie, also an alumna, was Skagit County\u2019s first woman commissioner and county treasurer.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2021\/02\/02\/wsu-names-new-mount-vernon-headhouse-ruth-wylie-groundbreaking-alumna\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\">With the aim of helping curb food insecurity among students, <b>Lamb Weston made a third donation of $25,000 to Cougar Cupboard<\/b>, the WSU Tri-Cities food pantry.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tricities.wsu.edu\/lamb-weston-provides-third-25000-donation-to-wsu-tri-cities-cougar-cupboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>President Kirk Schulz and First Lady Noel Schulz<\/b>, along with <b>Chancellor Sandra Haynes<\/b>, were the <b>first to donate for naming rights<\/b> for the <b>new state-of-the-art academic building<\/b> set to open this fall at WSU Tri-Cities.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2021\/06\/01\/wsu-president-first-lady-schulz-chancellor-haynes-first-donate-new-academic-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>A $500,000 gift from an anonymous couple<\/b> was the latest in a series of significant contributions made to support the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine\u2019s <b>first family medicine residency program in Pullman<\/b>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2021\/07\/08\/support-college-medicines-residency-program-pullman\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\">This anonymous gift builds on a <b>$250,000 gift from alumni Tom and Linda Nihoul<\/b>, also in support of the <b>medical residency program in Pullman<\/b>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2021\/06\/22\/wsu-alumni-donate-250000-family-medicine-residency-program-pullman\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>Northwest Farm Credit Services donated $2 million to multiple programs<\/b>, 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).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2021\/03\/08\/northwest-farm-credit-services-donates-2m-support-wsu-research-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>A $3 million gift from the Rosalie &amp; Harold Rea Brown Foundation<\/b> will establish an <b>endowed chair<\/b> in plant pathology, with the aim of reducing losses caused by plant diseases and thereby improving food security.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/09\/16\/wsu-receives-3-million-endowment-bolster-food-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:25px 0\"><b>The Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation made a gift of more than $1.5 million<\/b> to support <b>the new Life Sciences Teaching Laboratory<\/b>, under development at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center on the Tri-Cities campus.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/08\/03\/paul-lauzier-foundation-supports-new-life-sciences-teaching-lab-wsus-wine-science-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:800\">&#10094;&#10094;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/archive\/sep21\/\" style=\"font-weight:800;text-transform:uppercase\" rel=\"noopener\">Return to September 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"margin:0;padding:0;letter-spacing:2px\">Philanthropy in Action<\/h3>\n<p>Major Gifts News Round-Up<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a snapshot of several major gifts\u2014from $25,000 to $3 million\u2014that encompass a wide range of giving opportunities: from medicine to honey bees to Skagit County Extension. <\/p>\n<p>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.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/10\/20\/longtime-alumni-bestow-distinguished-professorship-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the WSU Insider story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alumna Nancy Kercheval made a gift of $150,000 to honor her mother, Ruth Wylie, that will help fund the Ruth Wylie Head House\u2014a &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/nb-sep21\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}