Intercollegiate College of Nursing

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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

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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


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