Gift Opportunities for Alumni and Friends of the School of Nursing

Are you interested in giving a gift to support the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison? If so, you may designate your gift to any of the following established funds. You may also create an endowed fund in support of nursing (minimum $10,000) by contacting:

Coleen Southwell
Director of Development, School of Nursing
UW Foundation
1848 University Avenue
Madison, WI, 52708-8860
Phone: (608) 263-6007
E-mail: Coleen.Southwell@uwfoundation.wisc.edu

The Nursing Sciences Center Fund
The fund to support a new, freestanding facility to house the School of Nursing on the Health Sciences Campus.

The Academic Staff Development Fund
This fund helps ensure that support exists for the continuing education and professional development of instructional academic staff.

The Valencia N. Prock Research Fund
The fund's purpose is to support nursing research.

The Littlefield Leadership Lecture Endowed Fund
The lectureship recognizes and promotes the development of nursing leadership in health care. Named after Dean Emerita Vivian Littlefield, the annual lecture features an invited nurse scholar who has shaped clinical or academic nursing and/or public policy.

The Simonds Center Fund
A fund for the continuous renewal of the technology center at the School of Nursing. Gifts to the Center will be used annually to support the upgrade and replacement of technology and to purchase experimental technologies so that advanced technology is available and accessible for nursing education, research, practice, and outreach.

The School of Nursing Continuing Education Fund
The fund is designated for the non-credit continuing education and professional development of practicing nurses in the state of Wisconsin.

The Flora Schrankel Risteen Library Fund
The fund may be used for the acquisition of print and non-print materials, including equipment, and other related educational purposes for the School of Nursing.

The Theodore and Dorothea Bolliger Endowment
The fund may be used for the purchase of equipment in addition to scholarships at the undergraduate or graduate level.

The Class of 1953 Building Fund
The Class of 1953 is making its 50th reunion class gift one that will benefit the Nursing Sciences Center.

The Undergraduate Scholarship Funds

• The Class of 1951 Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Mary Lynn Estes Moyer Scholarship Fund
• The Julia Due Petersen Scholarship Fund
• The Virginia G. Reynoldson Scholarship Fund
• The Marie D. Stiehm Scholarship Fund
• The Madeline Thornton Scholarship Fund
• The Frances Marie Johnson Urbanis Memorial Scholarship Fund
• The Vera Wang Memorial Scholarship Fund
• The Barbara Watts Scholarship Fund
• The David L. and Leta B. Williams Scholarship Fund

The Graduate Scholarship Funds

• The Mildred Elser Ahrnsbrak Nursing Award Fund
• The May Shiga Hornback Memorial Scholarship Fund
• The Joan E. Mulligan Scholarship in Nursing Fund
• The Saundra E. Saunders Nursing Excellence Scholarship FundThe Dean H. Wessels Memorial Scholarship Fund

The Scholarship Funds for both Undergraduates and Graduates

• The Florence Blake Scholarship in Nursing Fund
• The Theodore and Dorothea Bolliger Endowment
• The Helen L. Bunge Award
• The Carl and Val Dutton Scholarship in Nursing Fund
• The Florence A. and Albert E. Koch Endowed Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Charline Z. Larson Nursing Endowment Fund
• The Nina S. Malone Scholarship Fund
• The Lora L. Marshall Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Nurses Alumni Organization Scholarship Fund
• The Orrin W. Nuthem Nursing Scholarships and Fellowships
• The Ethel J. Odegard Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Jeanette Vroom Community Health Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Ellen Marie Walton Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund
• The Violette V. Wiita Nursing Scholarship Fund