giving

Giving Tuesday is a national event recognized the week following Thanksgiving to encourage generosity and unleash the power of people. At Case Western Reserve University, #GivingTuesdayAtCWRU—set to take place Tuesday, Nov. 29—is a chance for students to raise vital funds and bring awareness to thei...

Alumni couple commits $1.2 million to establish the Henderson Family Fund Marjorie and Norman Henderson in 2005 Norman Henderson, PhD (GRS ‘60, ‘61, psychology), remembers clearly the moment he decided to study psychology. It was 1958, just a few months before he was supposed to begin his senior y...

By the time she was 6, Rebecca Barchas knew she wanted to be a doctor—and not just any kind of doctor: a psychiatrist. Credit her mother, who was reading her adult classics like The Microbe Hunters, along with tales of women in science and medicine. “She opened my eyes to the fascinating workings ...

A decorated Air Force officer, Case Western Reserve University alumna Cheryl E. McRae-Bergeron, DNP (NUR ‘94), has spent a lifetime advancing the critical role of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) in healthcare. Today, through a transformative $5.5 million estate commitment to the Fra...

For the fifth year in a row, more than 2,200 members of the Case Western Reserve community went ALL IN for the university’s Day of Giving. The university’s Board of Trustees issued a challenge, pledging $20,000 for every 500 people that donated to the campuswide campaign. The generosity of faculty,...

In 1952, Cleveland native James P. Buchwald (CIT ‘54) began working toward his second bachelor’s degree, this one in mechanical engineering at Case Institute of Technology. The degree set him up for a career that would impact his field—and the lives of thousands of Ohioans. Now, his daughter and su...

This year marks two significant milestones for Kelvin Smith Library: Its 25th anniversary as the heart of scholarly discovery on Case Western Reserve’s campus, and the retirement of vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian Arnold Hirshon, who has led the library for more than a decade. ...

With renewed energy after Thanksgiving weekend, Case Western Reserve students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff rallied together to shatter every #GivingTuesdayatCWRU fundraising record since the university began participating in 2013—with 419 donors giving more than $40,000 to campus causes. The...

GivingTuesday, the global day of giving that engages more than 30 million donors each year, began as an effort to combat commercialized shopping days such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday with radical generosity. The social media-based movement has returned to Case Western Reserve, where the univer...

Three years ago, an anonymous donor challenged Case Western Reserve supporters to help endow 10 professorships each at the university’s medical and engineering schools. By committing to half of the amount required ($1 million), donors would have the opportunity to name the professorship the gift h...