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The true impact of your gifts to the EWU Foundation can be seen every day in our communities. We recently caught up with Sarah (Glaser) Burns, the first recipient of the EWU Retirees Association Golden Eagle Scholarship (2004-05). She graduated from EWU in 2005 with a BA in Social Work, magna cum laude. Here is…

Every gift impacts the lives of Eastern students, faculty, our communities, our country, and our world. Hear how much you inspire them every day.

For the 2016-17 academic year, eight students who proudly served or continue to serve their country will be awarded $15,850 in scholarship support to help them continue their education at EWU. These students served in all branches of the service, several are still serving in the National Guard or Reserves, and several have families. Many…

Your donations to scholarships have powerful results. Some Eastern students have endured unimaginable, difficult past experiences. What directions would their lives have taken without scholarship support from generous donors? We can only speculate. “I am a better person standing right here, right now, then I was the first time I walked on this campus. I…

Feel the joy! In one day of EWU’s first Giving Joy Day (November 29, 2016), more than one-quarter million dollars were donated for scholarships. See how excited and thankful our students are for your scholarship support.

Thanks to donors like you, students are expanding their horizons, following their passions, and landing their dream jobs in their chosen career fields. “I view these scholarship donors as being in my corner, helping me success and push forward to achieve my goals and my career dreams.” Hear more of Andrew Huddleston’s story.

CeCe George had a dress. As orphans in Haiti, she and her brother sometimes ate clay from the ground just to fill their stomachs. Only children from wealthy families or those with sponsors could go to school. Denys Diaz worked alongside her family members in the Yakima Valley agricultural fields. It was hard work, but…

Shannon Kellam is a full-time engineering student at EWU, president of the Rocketry Club, and a single mother to a fifth- and third-grader. As if she weren’t busy enough, Kellam also helped to build a 3-D-printed prosthetic arm for Spokane Public Schools fifth-grader Isaiah Strom. A team from EWU’s Engineering Department—which included Kellam; engineering tech, Frank…

Mykel Vanek overcame childhood leukemia. Dante Tyler is coping with his mom’s serious health challenges. Both faced financial obstacles that they could only hurdle because donors like you chose to support EWU scholarships. Mykel and Dante know they were born to do great things. Mykel wants to do communications/public relations/visual communication design work for worthy…

Thank you, Eagles for your tremendous support for our second annual Giving Joy Day! Together, we raised a grand total of $259,831.