Giving

A family that’s well known for its history of generosity toward UW-Green Bay has stepped up again, funding the Art Agency’s Visiting Artists Lecture Series that kicks off next week. Marcia Mueller, sister of the late Craig A. Mueller, a prominent UW-Green Bay donor, decided to fund the series after meeting a student with a [...]

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A family that is well known for its generosity toward the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is giving back once again, funding the Visiting Artists Lecture Series of UW-Green Bay’s Art Agency. Marcia Mueller, sister of the late Captain Craig A. Mueller, decided to back the series after meeting a student artist with a contagious enthusiasm [...]

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A family that is well respected throughout the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay community has established a second endowed scholarship to support the academic and creative endeavors of Art and Design students at the University. The family of UW-Green Bay Art scholarship namesake David L. Damkoehler recently established this second scholarship in memory of his wife, [...]

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Monday night concluded fall semester telephoning in the annual UW-Green Bay alumni phone-a-thon. Campaign coordinator Tracy Heaser of University Advancement reported recently that, so far, the number of donors and dollars pledged are up roughly one-fourth from the same time a year ago. She credits a good share of the increased participation to donors drawn [...]

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Here’s a non-reminder that individual UW-Green Bay staff and faculty members are always welcome to continue their generous financial support of the institution and its students. Despite the fact that the annual employee campaign took an entirely low-key approach this year, Tracy Heaser in University Advancement says that a number of staff and faculty renewed [...]

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Didn’t make it to Friday’s big NFL Films concert at the Meyer Theatre? There’s still time to support the cause. The event was a fundraiser for the Music Alumni Scholarship Fund here. (The Civic Symphony of Green Bay, primary host of Friday’s event, is still tallying receipts and will share a portion of the gate [...]

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Late Thursday afternoon Chancellor Thomas Harden officially launched the 16th Annual UW-Green Bay Faculty and Staff Campaign. Within just a few short hours, about 8% of the full-time employees on campus had already contributed. The Faculty and Staff Campaign provides University employees the opportunity to philanthropically support the institution through gifts to scholarships, academic programs, [...]

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Born in 1901 in the cutover country near Stevens Point, Alvina Breske wouldn’t set foot in a school classroom until decades later, when her own children were old enough to attend. It’s not that there wasn’t a schoolhouse nearby (there was), or that her parents needed her on the farm (they did, but gladly supported [...]

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As the UW-Green Bay Founders Association Faculty & Staff Campaign enters the home stretch, 75 colleagues, including 11 new donors, have contributed more than $17,600 in support of student scholarships. That’s a great number, but still far short of last year’s totals of $31,000+ raised by 155 donors. Haven’t made your gift yet? No need [...]

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Friends, family and members of the campus community gathered Sept. 5 to celebrate a $1 million gift by the late Craig A. Mueller to start a scholarship endowment in his name at his alma mater. That gift, the largest ever for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay scholarship fund and largest by an alumnus, will make [...]

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