{"id":7371,"date":"2018-03-15T10:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:41:41","slug":"giving-back-to-western-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/giving-back-to-western-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving back to Western students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

In a time of rising tuition rates and unpredictable government funding for higher education, several departments on Western\u2019s campus rely on donations from outside sources. Western\u2019s Giving Day on March 6 played an important role in fundraising over $40,000 for Western students and programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giving Day is an annual event sponsored by WOU Foundation that aims to collect donations from Western alumni, donors, staff and students. The donation goal set by Annual Giving Coordinator Emily Swart was $34,500, mirroring Western\u2019s address at 345 N Monmouth Ave. This was nearly $13,000 more than was raised in 2017, but Swart was confident that the campus-wide event would be a success.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had donors out there that wanted to support Western, we just needed to reach them in the right way,\u201d she explained. <\/span><\/p>\n

WOU Foundation set out to achieve this goal by reaching out to alumni as well as individuals that had supported Western in the past. Additionally, activities such as Java Match \u2014 where staff and students we asked to match the price of their coffee from The Press \u2014 and Giving Day Happy Hour \u2014 where the Alumni Board increased all donations by $18.56 \u2014 promoted the philanthropic nature of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giving Day donations were gifted to a multitude of different departments, from Abby\u2019s House to Athletics. Swart expressed excitement that many individuals donated to unrestricted scholarships. This allows Western to award scholarships to a wide range of students without academic restrictions. She emphasized that every dollar donated on Giving Day is going back to students. <\/span><\/p>\n

Swart\u2019s passion and excitement for Giving Day was instrumental in making it more successful this year than ever before, but she attributes the achievement to each individual that came forward to enrich student life at Western.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have this feeling that faculty, staff, students – we walked a little taller that day and we were a little prouder of our university,\u201d said Swart. \u201cAt the end of the day, it was all about Western Oregon students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Photo by: Paul F. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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