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Fundraising Friday: Seven-Figure Gift to USD Will Transform Club Space Inside DakotaDome

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Fundraising Friday: Boise State, Virginia Tech, Nevada Land Seven-Figure Donations

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Fundraising Friday: National Championship Baseball Alum Gives Back to SDSU

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Fundraising Friday: Three-Sport Alum Donates $10M to Texas Women's University

Fundraising Friday: Seven-Figure Gift to USD Will Transform Club Space Inside DakotaDome

Sioux Falls-based telecommunications company Midco and the University of South Dakota athletics department announced Thursday a $1.5 million gift that will transform the former Dome Club into the Midco Club, a renovated premium space designed to bring Coyote fans closer to the action inside the DakotaDome.

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Drawing the Curtain on a Community Arena

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Fundraising Friday: Boise State, Virginia Tech, Nevada Land Seven-Figure Donations

Boise State University's athletics department has announced that Eric and Christina Sonner have committed $2.5 million to support Boise State's North End Zone Project.

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Fundraising Friday: National Championship Baseball Alum Gives Back to SDSU

San Diego State University announced earlier this month that 1960 graduate and former Aztecs catcher Art Flaming has committed $1.2 million to support men's basketball, women's athletics and the baseball program that helped shape his future as a business leader.

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Fundraising Friday: Three-Sport Alum Donates $10M to Texas Women's University

A new athletics complex at Texas Women's University will bear the name of noted alumna and philanthropist Dawn Chaney, a three-sport athlete at the Denton-based university in the 1960, following her transformational $10 million gift to the project.

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Fundraising Friday: Seven-Figure Commitments for Penn State, Marshall

Penn State Athletics has announced receipt of a $5 million gift from 1972 PSU graduate Bob Poole and wife Sandy toward the West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium Revitalization project.

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Fundraising Friday: Cal, UTEP, Murray State Secure Seven-Figure Commitments

Through a transformative $3 million gift, University of California tennis alum Stacy Savides is endowing the women's tennis head coach position, which will now be known as The Stacy Savides Director of Women's Tennis.

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Fundraising Friday: Oregon State, Illinois Baseball Venues to Benefit From Multimillion-Dollar Gifts

Oregon State University on Wednesday announced plans for an expansion of Goss Stadium at Coleman Field, made possible by an anonymous $15 million gift to the OSU Foundation.

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Fundraising Friday: Richmond, Texas Christian Secure $10M Commitments

University of Richmond Class of 1996 members Paul and Anne-Marie Queally have donated $10 million to support Spider Athletics. This lead gift will help build a new facility dedicated to men’s and women’s lacrosse, the school announced Thursday. Envisioned to open in the summer of 2029 at the north end of Robins Stadium, the premier facility will include locker rooms, strength and conditioning space, meeting rooms, and offices to best support the teams.

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Fundraising Friday: Seven Figure Donations for Hawaii, Lynn, Providence, Murray State

Five prominent Hawaii donors and organizations are making a transformative $5 million commitment to the University of Hawaii at Mānoa athletics department via the UH Foundation to support name, image and likeness opportunities for student-athletes and help ensure the long-term success and national relevance of UH Mānoa Athletics.

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Fundraising Friday: Majority of Record $75M Gift to Virginia Tech Earmarked for Athletics

Though not entirely an athletics donation, we at FF are giving the four-generation Virginia Tech family behind the anonymous $75 million commitment to the university full credit. The largest commitment in the Tech's history will advance its ambitious athletics strategy and expand one of its most innovative academic programs.

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Fundraising Friday: Seven-Figure Commitments to Pitt, Georgia Tech, U. of Manitoba

The University of Pittsburgh athletics department and the Panther Club announced Wednesday an anonymous $3 million philanthropic gift to Pitt wrestling — the largest donation in program history.

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High School AD Spends Day on School Roof, Fundraising Effort Exceeds Expectations

Dan O’Connell, the athletic director at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine, spent Friday on the school's roof in a fundraising effort that exceeded expectations.

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