Support Nursing
Your gifts help us provide much needed assistance and scholarships for deserving students, recruit and maintain top faculty, facilitate lifelong learning and innovative research opportunities for our students and faculty, sustain and strengthen critical community outreach programs, all in support of our mission of transforming health care for generations to come.
Ways to Give
Gifts of any size are important to the College's ability to provide students with a quality educational experience and to enable faculty to pursue cutting-edge research opportunities. There are a number of ways you can make a gift to the Intercollegiate College of Nursing, including:
ICN Special Initiatives:
WSU Regional Clinical Simulation Fund -Clinical simulation laboratories are being established in Spokane and Yakima. Gifts to the fund will be utilized to purchase equipment, supplies and training required to establish these centers.
Doctoral Programs-This fund is utilized by the Dean
to support doctoral education in nursing at the
College. Gifts will enable faculty and students to
pursue state of the art opportunities in research,
education and practice.
Scholarships and Fellowships-This fund supports the
General Scholarship Fund or you can specify a gift to
your favorite College of Nursing Scholarship Fund is
listed below.
ICN Priority Funds:
Dean's Excellence Fund-This is the Dean's
unrestricted fund and the donations to this fund are used
at the Dean’s discretion. Funds have been
used to support commencement, convocation, faculty
travel, faculty/staff recognition, faculty recruitment,
celebrations and much more.
Development Director's Fund-This is the Development
Director’s unrestricted fund and the donations to
this fund are used at the Assistant Dean for
Advancement’s discretion. Funds may be used
for all WSU “common expenditure objects” in
the performance of official duties for purposes that
advance the mission of the College. Funds have been
used to support donor related activities, promotional
materials, travel and related expenses for the purposes
of solicitation, cultivation and stewardship.
ICN Department Development Funds:
Anderson Library Fund-The Betty M. Anderson Library
relies on its donor support for funds for "Special
Items," such as books on nursing art, history, and
nurses’ stories. Reference books and journal
collections (which tend to be quite expensive) are also
supported with these funds
Clark Simulation and Practice Center Fund-Donations
will be used to help support staffing, equipment,
software, and supplies required for new or ongoing
services for the Learning Simulation and Practice
Centers.
Cleveland Visiting Scholar Fund-Named in honor of
Dean Thelma Cleveland, gifts to this fund will bring in
visiting premiere, national and international nurse and
health care leaders who will present lectures to provide
the latest information to health care professionals,
consumers and our nursing students and
faculty.
Denice Murphy Community Nursing Fund–This fund is used to support the College’s service and education projects that involve community nursing, the poor and medically underserved, and those affected by breast cancer.
Downtown Nursing Fund-Donations to this fund help offset maintaining the Downtown Clinic where our students give community health care assistance for the homeless and others. Donations help to provide needed supplies not covered in the state budget.
People's Clinic Fund–The People’s Clinic is a clinic for homeless and low-income children and their families in the downtown Spokane YWCA. The clinic is run by Nurse Practitioners from the College of Nursing and is a clinical site for our nursing students. Donations help to provide needed supplies, medications and materials for our patients.
Research Fund–Gifts to the fund are used to support individual faculty research, research infrastructure for the college, software and equipment, and other research related expenses.
Tri-Cities Nursing Development Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support baccalaureate and RN to BSN nursing education in Tri-Cities.
Vancouver Nursing Development Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support RN to BSN and graduate nursing education in Vancouver.
Yakima Nursing Education Fund-Gifts to this fund will be used to support baccalaureate nursing and graduate education in Yakima.
Anderson Family Scholarship Fund-For graduate students only.
Evalyn Johnson Byers Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates.
Ann Sherman Christian Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Dorothy Detlor Graduate Fellowship Fund-Provides fellowship stipends to be used by the recipients for such things including but not limited to tuition and fees, subsistence, research expenses, and other educationally related costs. Specifically, distributions from this fund shall be used to provide dissertation research support for PhD students.
Laura Dustan Scholarship Fund-For graduate students only.
Iris Finch Loan Fund-For emergency use only, a measure of last resort. Must be paid back within one year of graduation or 6 mos. after withdrawal of the program. Loan limit of $500 per semester to any one student. Must sign a promissory note.
Jan Holloway Award for Excellence in Clinical Instruction-This fund provides a monetary award to a faculty member to recognize their excellence in clinical instruction in the undergraduate program while demonstrating the highest professional values and encourages professional and personal development in students.
Karen Johnson Doke Memorial Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Jones Family Scholarship Fund-For WSU graduate
students only
Lyn Kaste-Gould Memorial Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates.
Arnie and Marta Kegel Nursing Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Ed and Arlene Koetje Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Don and Julia Lee Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only.
Emma Walter Neusse Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates or graduates
Hilda Roberts Nursing Scholarship-For undergraduates only.
John M. Riley Jr. , Nurses in Business Education Fund-undergraduate students a mechanism by which nurses can expand their choices in delivery of health care, particularly as they consider operating their nursing careers as their own business entities through utilization of business principles taught within the nursing program and lectures.
HD & Clara Schlotfeldt Emergency Loan Fund-Available to Yakima students for emergency use only. Loans must be repaid within one year of graduation. Must sign a promissory note.
St. Luke's Alumnae Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Trudi Smith Scholarship and Emergency Loan Fund-For emergency use only, limited to $100, per student, per term. Loans must be repaid within one year of graduation. Must sign a promissory note.
Patricia Stec Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Judith Steward Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For undergraduates only.
Margaret Embry Sylvies Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund-For WSU undergraduates only
Templeton Family Excellence Fund in Nursing (Trust)-Funds may be used for all WSU “common expenditure objects” in the performance of official duties for purposes that advance the mission of the University.
Edna Sackett Thompson Nursing Scholarship Fund-For
prenursing students at WSU
For more information on how you can help, or any questions you may have, please contact:
Karen Malone
Development Coordinator
Washington State University Intercollegiate College of
Nursing
2917 W. Fort George Wright Dr.
Spokane, WA 99224
509-324-7339
malone@wsu.edu
