California State University, Stanislaus

Contribution Highlights

• The 50th Anniversary Inaugural Gala, raising more than $225,000, featured a sold-out dinner followed by a concert performance from actor, director and musician Gary Sinise and his “Lieutenant Dan Band” at the University Amphitheater.
  
• The Nursing Program received a boost thanks to a $270,000 Kaiser Permanente gift, which is allowing more nursing students to graduate with college degrees. The gift is already addressing a local, statewide and nationwide demand for nurses.
  
• A $10,000 donation from Gary and Marcia Nelson helped start a new Masters of Science in Nursing. Fourteen nurses began the program, which offers two tracks: Nursing Education and Gerontological Nursing.
  
• The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation helped students seeking both professional and liberal arts degrees in music. The Foundation’s gift to the Department of Music brings its total charitable giving to nearly $50,000. Each year, the gift enables students and faculty to continue their exploration of music and find ways to share their work with the people of the Central Valley.
  
• University photographer Cary Edmondson was selected as the grand gold medal winner in the Photographer of the Year competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
  
• The Promise Scholars Program, seeking to provide emancipated foster youth with greater access to higher education, received an appropriation of $285,000 from the federal government. The Promise Scholars Program provides college admission, guidance, housing and counseling resources to a greater number of high school graduates from foster care situations.

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