Gifts

Case Western Reserve’s contributors outdid themselves in the final full year of the Forward Thinking capital campaign, contributing a record-breaking $208 million in gifts and pledges—and setting more than a dozen more all-time highs in individual categories. “The generosity of our alumni and frien...

Made on behalf of late alum, who invented Nike Air Sole, and wife A $1.9 million gift from Kim Rudy McMahon, whose late father, a Case Western Reserve University alum who invented the revolutionary Nike Air Sole, will establish the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Dormiter Rudy Athletic Endowment for the ...

Building now named the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University have been given a very generous gift from Sheila and Eric Samson for the Health Education Campus (HEC), scheduled to open in summer 2019. In recognition of the significant donation, the campus...

More than 2,600 donors combine for $1.55 million in support—breaking the one-day donor participation record yet again For the sixth straight year, Case Western Reserve asked its community to come together in support of the university during the 2018 All [in] Day of Giving. And earlier this week, the...

$5 million gift launches Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing A $5 million gift from Marian and Michael Shaughnessy will create an academy at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing to develop and support a new gene...

As colleagues and friends mourned the passing of Cpl. Scott Del Rosa last summer, one theme arose again and again: In a campus-safety career spanning nearly three decades, Del Rosa was renowned for his ability to calm others—no matter how tense a situation became. “He would listen, hear them all th...

President Barbara R. Snyder thanks supporters; adds, “We are not finished yet” Buoyed by commitments from nearly 55,000 donors and philanthropic organizations, Case Western Reserve has surpassed its expanded $1.5 billion capital campaign goal. The historic achievement also marked the second time in...

Case Western Reserve’s supporters did more than set two new all-time records for the university’s fifth annual Day of Giving—they more than doubled the dollars raised in the initiative’s inaugural year. This year’s event drew 1,824 donations totaling $460,480—with each figure beating 2016’s tally b...

A city-wide initiative that aims to make Northeast Ohio an epicenter of brain health research and care has won $1.5 million in support from The Cleveland Foundation. The grant to Case Western Reserve, host of the Cleveland Brain Health Initiative, is the largest that the project has received to dat...