Starting at midnight (EDT) on April 9, EVERY gift of ANY size gets us one step closer to unlocking over 75 matches and challenges (listed below) and providing much-needed resources for our amazing students, brilliant faculty, groundbreaking research and critical urban programs.
Increase your impact and help us reach our goals!
🎉 The Scholarship Match: The Greenwald Family Impact Foundation will match gifts to any scholarship – up to $200,000.
🏃➡️ Recurring Gift Challenge: Once 25 donors make a recurring gift, of any amount and to any fund, a generous gift of $5,000 from Marion Ringe ’70, M.A. ’77 will be unlocked!
School, College, Unit Matches & Challenges
💼 Mike Ilitch School of Business:
- Once 100 donors make a gift to the Mike Ilitch School of Business, a generous $100,000 gift from Steve and Liz Janicak will be unlocked!
- Between 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. EDT, all gifts to MISB will be matched, up to $10,000, by Ally. By supporting the Mike Ilitch School of Business, Ally is helping students overcome financial barriers, persist to graduation and enter the workforce prepared to contribute and lead.
- Between 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT, all gifts to MISB will be matched, up to $10,000, by Lake Michigan Credit Union.
- Paul and Louise Borucki are providing a 3-to-1 match for any gift to the Delta Sigma Pi Gamma Theta Endowed Scholarship, up to $5,000.
- Once 15 donors make a gift to the Multicultural Professional Readiness Education Program (MPREP), a generous gift of $5,000 from Randy and Erin Quinn will be unlocked!
- Once $500 is raised for the MISB Alumni Council Student Experience fund, a $2,200 gift from the Mike Ilitch School of Business Alumni Council will be unlocked.
- Dean Virginia Kleist will provide a 1:1 match for all contributions made to the Mike Ilitch School of Business Student Emergency Fund– up to $2,000!
- An anonymous donor is matching gifts to the MISB Scholarship Fund – up to $1,000!
📗 College of Education:
- Marion Ringe ’70, M.A. ’77 is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for gifts to the College of Education - up to $5,000!
🏫 James and Patricia Anderson College of Engineering:
- Once 10 donors have made a gift to the Dr. Mumtaz Usmen Endowed Civil Engineering and Construction Management Excellence Scholarship, a generous $25,000 donation from Dr. Mumtaz Usmen will be unlocked!
- Once 5 donors make a gift to the John G. Wright Memorial Endowed Scholarship, a generous gift of $5,000 from an anonymous donor will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors have made a gift to any Civil and Environmental Engineering fund, a generous $5,000 donation from Paul Sgriccia will be unlocked!
- Dr. Cynthia Bir is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for all gifts to the Biomedical Engineering Annual Fund – up to $1,000!
- Dr. Ratna B. Chinnam is matching Giving Day donations to the Industrial and Systems Engineering Annual Fund – up to $500!
🎭 College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts:
- Chris LaVigne and Meredyth Childress are providing a dollar-for-dollar match for gifts to the Angela Cowan Memorial Scholarship in Speech and Debate - up to $7,500!
- Dr. Jeff Sposato, Chair and Professor in the Department of Music, is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for gifts to the Friends of Music - up to $2,500!
- Dr. Jeffrey Sposato and Dr. Peter Cohen will match donations to the University Art Collection – up to $1,000!
🧾 Irvin D. Reid Honors College:
- Dr. Bob Kelch is matching Giving Day donations to the Honors College – up to $30,000!
- Once 50 donors make a gift to the Honors College, a generous $25,000 gift from Dr. Bob Pettapiece, '80 will be unlocked!
- Dr. Irvin D. Reid is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for Giving Day donations to the Honors College – up to $20,000!
- Once the Honors College raises $100,000, a generous $5,000 gift from Dr. Irvin D. Reid will be unlocked!
- Dean Elena Past will match donations to the Irvin D. Reid Honors College Dean’s Fund up to $1,000.
- Thanks to an anonymous donor, gifts made to the Honors College Finish Line Endowed Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar – up to $1,000!
📖 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
- Once 50 first-time donors make a gift to CLAS, a generous $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor will be unlocked!
- Once 100 donors make a gift to CLAS, a generous $3,000 gift from Dean Stephanie Hartwell will be unlocked!
- Kristina and Paul Devine will match donations to the CLAS Scholarship Fund – up to $1,000.
- Once 10 donors make a gift to any Anthropology fund, between 12 a.m. to 11:59 a.m. EDT, a $1,500 gift from Rory Bolger will be unlocked!
- But that's not all! Once 10 donors make a gift to any Anthropology fund, between 12 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. EDT, a $2,500 gift from Michael Dion will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors make a gift to the Audiology Clinic, a $1,000 gift from Dr. Jinsheng Zhang will be unlocked!
- Once 25 donors make a gift to any Biological Sciences fund, a generous $75,000 gift from Kathryn and Gary Armstrong will be unlocked!
- David Pringle is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for gifts to any Chemistry fund – up to $5,000!
- Once 25 donors make a gift to any English fund, a generous $5,000 gift from Marion Ringe ’70, M.A. ’77 will be unlocked!
- Between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT, all gifts to the English Department Annual Fund, will be matched, up to $500, by our department chair, Jaime Goodrich!
- Once 15 donors make a gift to any Environmental Sciences and Geology fund, a generous $5,000 gift from Marion Ringe ’70, M.A. ’77 will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors make a gift to any Mathematics fund, a generous $12,000 gift from Jan Berger-Cohn will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors make a gift to any Nutrition and Food Science fund, a generous $10,000 gift from Kai-Lin Catherine Jen will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors make a gift to the Physics and Astronomy Annual Fund, a $1,000 gift from Dr. Juei-Teng Chen will be unlocked!
- Once 25 donors have made a gift to the Political Science Annual Fund, a $4,000 donation from a group of anonymous donors will be unlocked!
- Once 10 donors make a gift to the Psychology Annual Fund, a $1,000 gift from Linda Jones will be unlocked!
- Lisa Rapport will match donations to the Psychology Clinic – up to $1,000.
- Once 10 donors make a gift to Public Health, a generous $1,000 gift from Dr. Patricia Wren will be unlocked!
- Once 5 donors make a gift to the Speech and Language Clinics fund, a $2,500 gift from Karen and John O'Leary will be unlocked!
- An anonymous donor is matching donations to any Urban Studies and Planning fund – up to $100!
🔰 Wayne Law:
- An anonymous donor is providing a 3-to-1 match for any gift to Wayne Law, up to $100,000!
- Once 30 donors make a gift to Wayne Law, a generous $30,000 gift from The Woessner Phamily will be unlocked!
🥼 School of Medicine:
- The School of Medicine Board of Governors are providing a dollar-for-dollar match for gifts to the Medical Alumni Annual Fund – up to $85,000!
- Dave Seamans, M.D. ’94 is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for Giving Day donations to the School of Medicine – up to $30,000!
- Piero Simone, M.D. ’95 and Lucy Simone are providing a 2-to-1 match for any gift to the School of Medicine Scholarship Fund – up to $25,000!
- Once 50 donors have made a gift to the School of Medicine, a generous $20,000 donation from Dr. Gino Salciccioli will be unlocked!
🩺 College of Nursing:
- Once 50 donors make a gift to the College of Nursing on Giving Day, a generous $2,000 gift from Dean Ramona Benkert will be unlocked!
- Dean Ramona Benkert will also match donations to any College of Nursing fund up to $1,000.
🔬 Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences:
- Thanks to the generosity of Uniprop and the Family Heritage Fund, all Giving Day gifts to the Nurse Anesthesia Annual Fund will be matched 3:1—tripling your impact up to $30,000.
- Once 25 faculty or staff members make a gift to any fund at WSU Applebaum, a generous gift of $25,000 from an anonymous former faculty member will be unlocked!
- The Dean’s Advisory Committee will match donations to any WSU Applebaum fund – up to $7,250.
- An anonymous donor is providing a 2-to-1 match for donations to the Pharmaceutical Sciences Annual Fund – up to $2,500!
- A.J. Desmond & Sons is providing a 2-to-1 match for donations to the Mortuary Science Annual Fund or the Mortuary Science Scholarship Fund – up to $5,000!
- Thanks to Associate Dean Susan Davis, Pharm.D. and James Davis, once 20 donors make a gift to the Pharmacy Annual Fund, a $2,000 gift will be unlocked!
- Dr. Peter and Mrs. Karen Frade will match all gifts to the Pathologist’s Assistant Program Scholarship – up to $1,500.
🤝 School of Social Work:
- Once 50 donors have made a gift to the School of Social Work, a generous gift of $5,000 from the WSU Social Work Board of Visitors will be unlocked!
🎓 Alumni Programs:
- The Organization of Black Alumni is matching Giving Day donations to the For the Culture Scholarship — up to $750!
- But that’s not all! Eboni Ford Turnbow, PhD, WSU alumna, will also provide a dollar-for dollar match, up to $250, for the For the Culture Scholarship.
🏆 Athletics:
- Roger Zlotoff is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for all gifts to Men’s Baseball – up to $10,000!
- An anonymous donor is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for all gifts to Men’s Basketball – up to $9,750!
- Roger Zlotoff is providing a dollar-for-dollar match for all gifts to Men’s Tennis – up to $10,000!
📻 Detroit Radio Information Service (DRIS): DRIS reader and alumna Ruby Duffield, B.A. ’16 is providing a 1:1 match for gifts to DRIS, up to $1,000, to support the expansion of the Detroit Radio Information Service.
📈 Division of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (DEED): Ned and Anne Staebler will match all gifts to the Division of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development – up to $1,000.
🏠 Freer House and Garden: Once the Freer House and Garden has raised $4,000 on Giving Day, a $2,250 gift will be unlocked, thanks to generous combined leadership match contributions from Lillian and Walter Dean and the Garden Club of Michigan.
🌎 Humanities Center: Once 15 donors make a gift to Humanities Center, a $1,500 gift from the Humanities Center Advisory Board will be unlocked!
🧑🏭 Labor@Wayne: Once 10 donors make a gift to Labor@Wayne, a $1,000 gift from Labor@Wayne Director, Elizabeth Faue, will be unlocked!
🧒 Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute: Sonya and Richard Thomas are providing a dollar-for-dollar match for any gifts to the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute – up to $1,000!
💚 Office of Inclusive Excellence: Once 10 donors make a gift to any Office of Inclusive Excellence fund, a $2,400 gift from Heather Mourer will be unlocked!
🧑💻TechTown: Ned and Anne Staebler will match all gifts to TechTown – up to $1,000.
🎙️WDET:
- In memory of Ismael Ahmed, alumna Cindy Nicholson, M.S. ’86 is providing a 1:1 match for gifts to WDET, up to $3,600, to support WDET internships.
- Between 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, all gifts to WDET will be matched, up to $1,200, by alumna Julie Osburn, M.Ed. ’05, to support WDET internships.
Thank you to our match and challenge sponsors!