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Support Coug Nurses

Your donation provides educational opportunities to empower students and the communities they serve.

At WSU College of Nursing, we’re not just educating nurses…we’re shaping the future of healthcare. Help support the next generation by giving to a student scholarship.

Funding Priorities

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Annual Scholarship Fund

Annual scholarship support is crucial to helping WSU College of Nursing recruit and retain nursing students to help address the nursing shortage in Washington and beyond, particularly in rural areas where the shortage is most acute.
Make a gift to the Annual Scholarship Fund
Nursing student attending to a manikin during simulation.

Center for Experiential Learning

The Center for Experiential Learning anchors simulation-based training at the WSU College of Nursing. While nursing education regulations allow up to 50% of clinical education through simulation, current space and resources limit us to 25%. Expanding simulation strengthens clinical judgment before students enter patient care and extends advanced training and continuing education opportunities to nurses and community partners across the region.
Make a gift to the Experiential Learning Fund
Audra Podruzny checking vital signs with a standardized patient.

 Standardized Patients Fund

Standardized patients, trained individuals who simulate real healthcare scenarios, are a vital part of simulation-based nursing education, providing students with realistic opportunities to practice assessment, communication, clinical judgment, and patient care skills before entering healthcare settings. Your support helps expand access to high-quality simulation experiences that prepare future nurses to deliver compassionate, confident, and effective care.
Make a gift to the Standardized Patients Fund
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Dean’s Excellence Fund

This allows the Dean to accelerate development of innovative programs, recruit faculty and nimbly respond to opportunities that align with the college’s mission.
Make a gift to the Dean's Excellence Fund
Three nursing students huddled around a laptop as they prepare to enter a simulation scenario.

College of Nursing Student Success Fund

The Student Success Fund provides flexible support to help College of Nursing students thrive and overcome barriers to success. Gifts may be used for scholarships, emergency financial assistance, learning resources, and other programs that enhance the student experience. Your gift provides immediate, meaningful support that helps nursing students succeed both academically and personally while advancing the College’s mission of educating future nurses.
Make a gift to the Student Success Fund
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Create a Lasting Legacy

An endowed gift creates lasting support for Coug Nurses by providing steady funding for scholarships and student learning year after year. Your endowment helps more students afford nursing education and strengthens care in communities across Washington, including rural areas. Create a legacy that continues to give.
Start an endowment

Thankful for scholarships.

We review hundreds of scholarship applications each year. And though we are not yet able to award a scholarship to every student who applies, this year we came pretty close. ⁠

With your help, we were able to award more than $435,000 to 215 students during the 2025-2026 school year.

Scholarship Impact

Washington State University College of Nursing 2026 graduates, Cadence McLin and Joshua and Veranica Alexeyenko thank their donors.

Donor Impact in Action

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Give by mail

Please write “College of Nursing” and the fund name (if known) on the check memo line, for example: College of Nursing Annual Scholarship Fund, or College of Nursing Dean’s Excellence Fund, or College of Nursing Center for Experiential Learning.

Checks can be mailed via U.S. Mail, FedEx, or UPS to:

WSU College of Nursing
Attn: Megan Dimeling
412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd.
Spokane, WA 99202

Development Team

Questions about giving?
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Other ways to give

There are many ways you can give to the college, including planned giving, endowments, and matching gifts. People are often surprised to learn that smart estate planning can take advantage of gift planning strategies with many attractive benefits, such as increased income, reduced taxes, and an opportunity to see their gift at work.

  • Gift and estate planning – By including the college in your estate or financial plans, you will make a lasting difference and provide opportunities to future generations.
  • Endowed gifts – Endowments are a particularly powerful investment in the college’s future because they deliver a dependable, perpetual source of funding. 
  • Matching gifts – Many employers will match their employees’ donations. Some employers will match the gifts of retired employees, spouses, parents, and even contributions from their board of directors.
  • Stock and securities – Gifts of marketable stocks or securities shares that have appreciated can have an immediate impact on the college while creating a favorable income tax deduction for you based on the assets’ current value.
  • IRA charitable rollover – A tax-saving way to help the college with a gift from your IRA.
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