{"id":505,"date":"2021-12-14T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/?p=505"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:27:56","slug":"pia-dec21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/pia-dec21\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA-Dec21"},"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>Donor passions and interests benefit wide-ranging programs, system-wide.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">WSU Spokane\u2019s Native American Health Sciences (NAHS) program will build what is believed to be the nation\u2019s 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.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2021\/09\/01\/first-indigenous-developed-simulation-space-planned-wsu-spokane\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">Several WSU programs that support the success of first-generation students will share a $100,000 gift from The Boeing Company.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/08\/boeing-gift-will-strengthen-programs-for-first-generation-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">A $3.5 million anonymous gift to WSU\u2019s Carson College of Business will increase opportunities for accounting majors to prepare for careers, while also funding recruitment efforts and operations within the program.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/03\/3-5-million-gift-boosts-career-preparation-for-wsu-accounting-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">A life-long passion for animals and personal friendship with WSU alumnus and veterinarian Kyle Frandle (&rsquo;74 BS, &rsquo;76 MS, &rsquo;80 DVM), inspired Ed and Lorraine Bargagliotti to gift more than $1.5 million of their estate to establish a scholarship in WSU\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine and support the college\u2019s Diagnostic Challenges and Rabies vaccination programs.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/a-gift-inspired-by-a-passion-for-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">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.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/08\/donors-awarded-125k-to-wsu-researchers-through-cougar-cage-funding-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;margin:0 0 25px 0\">WSU alumnus Darren Alger and wife, Jamie, committed a transformational gift to the Indoor Practice Facility (IPF)\u2014a 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.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wsucougars.com\/news\/2021\/10\/22\/cougar-athletic-fund-alger-family-completes-ipf-fundraising-with-gift-commitment.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:800\">&#10094;&#10094;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\" style=\"font-weight:800;text-transform:uppercase\" rel=\"noopener\">Return to Home<\/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>Donor passions and interests benefit wide-ranging programs, system-wide.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>WSU Spokane\u2019s Native American Health Sciences (NAHS) program will build what is believed to be the nation\u2019s 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.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2021\/09\/01\/first-indigenous-developed-simulation-space-planned-wsu-spokane\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight:bold\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several WSU programs that support the success of first-generation students will share a $100,000 gift &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/pia-dec21\/\" 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\/505"}],"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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}