{"id":1106,"date":"2016-02-19T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currents.winonastateu.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2017-06-14T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:11:35","slug":"fy15-wsu-foundation-highlights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2016\/02\/19\/fy15-wsu-foundation-highlights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FY15 WSU Foundation Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>A Letter from the Interim WSU Foundation Board Executive Director<\/h2>\n
\"Gary<\/a>

Gary Evans
Interim WSU Foundation Board Executive Director<\/p><\/div>\n

The Foundation set records in virtually every meaningful category, beginning with the all important\u00a0category of income. Outstanding efforts on your part, donors, and work by the\u00a0fundraising staff created income totaling $5.2 million. It is the first time the Foundation has\u00a0eclipsed the $5 million mark, but better yet is the work that will be enabled.<\/p>\n

The Foundation, which was honoring fewer than a dozen recipients at its first scholarship\u00a0brunch, now is hosting more than 900 scholarship recipients, who are benefiting from more\u00a0<\/span>than $1 million in support. Those are enviable totals, and they could not have been done\u00a0<\/span>without you.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so I am writing this message exclusively for our donors<\/a>. You have provided wonderful\u00a0support for our efforts as employees of the Advancement Division, but more importantly you\u00a0have allowed our students, nearly half of them the first in their families to attend college, to\u00a0complete their work here with less onerous student loan burdens.<\/p>\n

Your generosity enables many things. . . things too numerous to mention in total. We talk\u00a0about the impacts of your gifts, but we hear wonderful, sometimes heartbreaking stories\u00a0about you, too. I\u2019d like to share a few:<\/p>\n