2019 Highlights

In December 2019, the SPSCC Foundation moved to the Dr. Angela Bowen Center for Health Education. This building was the largest donation in the Foundation’s history. In 2019 the Foundation also received the largest cash gift ever, a donation of $550,000 from the Eva Gordon Estate. Our community supported event growth through our two largest fundraisers, The Experience and the Clipper Scramble Golf Tournament. College staff and faculty also pitched in; participation in payroll deduction gifts to the SPSCC Foundation increased from 17% to 37% of staff and faculty. Thank you! With these and many other gifts, we’ve been better able to support SPSCC students and the college, including: ∙ doubling the size of the College Food Pantry; ∙ creating a program to provide emergency grocery and gas gift cards to students; ∙ launching a textbook loan program in partnership with the SPSCC library; and ∙ hosting many SPSCC alumni events.

Many new grants and scholarships were also established last year, including: ∙ Allied Health Emergency Fund; ∙ United Way Emergency Fund; ∙ Architecture, Engineering & Construction Technology (AECT) Scholarship; ∙ Evalyn Poff Memorial Scholarship; ∙ Larson Family Scholarship; ∙ Phil Weigand Memorial Endowed Scholarship for Boys & Girls Clubs; ∙ Right! Systems Information Technology Endowed Scholarship; and ∙ Vietnamese Community Association of Thurston County Endowed Scholarship.

We are very excited to carry this growth forward into 2020 as we begin a campaign to support Student Success!