Picking up Speed Donor
Picking up Speed Donor Engagement Supporters help Foundation achieve new high Over the last fiscal year, university alumni, friends, faculty, staff, students and other supporters contributed or pledged more than million in gifts to the TWU Foundation, which has the sole purpose of providing support to Texas Woman’s. The Foundation’s net assets exceeded 5 million, which provided more than .1 million from endowment distributions to fund university scholarships and programs and more than .2 million in immediate use funding for scholarships, programs, equipment and capital expenditures. It is through contributions such as these that Texas Woman’s is able to maintain strong enrollment, expand research funding and offer more scholarships than ever. Dr. Patricia J. Edwards Scholarship Endowment Donald Edwards and Patricia Edwards, PhD, ‘77, ‘79, ‘98 have been longtime supporters of Texas Woman’s. To honor his wife, Donald Edwards created a scholarship endowment in her name that supports master’s level library science students.
Woolf Foundation Gift To honor a gift from a charitable trust that funded scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students in social work, the Board of Regents named the Division of Social Work in honor of Orien Levy Woolf. Dieb-McDavid Scholarship Program National Cowgirl Hall of Fame honoree, regent and alumna Stacie Dieb McDavid ‘80 and her husband, David McDavid, gave a second 0,000 gift to fund Dieb-McDavid Scholarships, established a year earlier for young women graduating from Denton High School, where Stacie McDavid also attended. Texas Woman’s published the inaugural issue of the university magazine in spring 2022. Read the online version at magazine.twu.edu Doswell Gift: Nursing Center for Scientific Research and Discovery Houston and Florence Doswell gave millions to Texas Woman’s before they passed, and their philanthropy continued through the Doswell Foundation, which gave the university .5 million to establish a research center at the Dallas campus and ,000 to support nursing students. 21
