A Time to Give Back

Glenville State College: Day of Giving

By: Nicholas Blake

            On February 19, Glenville State College hosted a Founders Day of Giving crowd funding campaign. The campaign comprised 30 individual projects. Donors chose which special projects or funds they wanted to support. This event, the second of its kind at GSC, was designated with a goal to raise $90,000 for the various projects. By the end of the day the Pioneer community went above and beyond the original call, making gifts totaling over $104,000.

The projects included:

• The GSC Annual Fund Challenge
• The Student Hardship Fund
•  Pitching machine for Softball
•  Printing cost for GSC’s literary arts journal Trillium
•  Five sets of safety gear for GSC Boxing
•  General funds for Men’s and Women’s Basketball
•  An automated ball machine for Women’s Volleyball
•  Equipment and clothing for Men’s Golf
•  General fundraising for Women’s Soccer
•  New equipment for Track and Field and Cross Country
•  The development of an ongoing campus literary series
• Support for touring theater performances
•  Supplies, research, costs and travel expenses for the Department of Science and Mathematics
•  The purchase of two chainsaws for the Department of Land Resources
•  Assistance for teacher education students with the cost of Praxis exams
•  Travel funds for the Acrobatics and Tumbling team
•  Recovery devices for all GSC athletes
•  A new PA system for use by the GSC Jazz Band
• New marching band uniforms
•  A golf cart to be used by GSC Bluegrass
• Costs for passports and suitcases for education abroad students
•  Funding overnight trips for GSC Football
•  Equipment for the Department of Criminal Justice
•  General fundraising for Baseball
•  A slide for the GSC Pool
•  Funding a trip to see the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra at the Clay Center for English honor society students
• Interactive pen displays for art and graphic design students.

 Ashley Knight, the director of fundraising, is very excited about this year’s Day of Giving and she has expressed that we have a diverse set of needs throughout the campus pertaining to many different departments and groups. She’s been an avid go-getter on this campus making sure that people are getting excited and making their contributions, allowing the Day of Giving to be a huge success. Knight has made it her duty to talk with each individual group about what the day may be like. She was also heavily involved with the production of the Day of Giving videos that were done by the above groups to help boost interest.9. Knight Expresses that we were trying to crush our goal of $85,000 for immediate needs on campus and we were more than able to do that by striving past $104,000. The Founders Day Celebrations wrapped up with a celebratory cake and a poetry slam hosted by the Department of Language and Literature. Members of the campus community were able sign a thank you banner, which will be on display at the Waco center.