Thank you for supporting projects that shape students' Whitworth experience!

The Basic Needs Network coordinates access to food and personal care items for students experiencing food and other basic needs insecurities. Your gift will provide resources including fresh, frozen and refrigerated foods, pantry items and hygiene products, empowering students for optimal well-being and educational success. At Whitworth and nationwide, increasing numbers of students access these essential resources. Through your support, Whitworth can meet students' basic needs. 

Team up with environmental science students and Whitworth Grounds to restore an eroded hillside on campus. Your gift will fund students' efforts to assess and measure erosion, plan the project, purchase native plants and replant the site. Through this work, students will complete a needed restoration of the area and gain valuable real-world skills.

Your gift will provide a weekend fall retreat for all students to recharge off campus in a beautiful setting. We'll worship together, make time for rest, have fun, and offer creative opportunities for students to engage with Jesus. Through your generosity, this retreat will provide students a place to form meaningful friendships that are centered in Christ.

The CliftonStrengths® assessment helps students gain the confidence, clarity and self-awareness they need for success in school, life and their careers. Your gift will allow Whitworth's Career & Professional Development Center to offer this assessment at no cost to student leaders and students seeking career or vocational guidance. Each assessment will be followed by personalized coaching from a trained CliftonStrengths® coach. Understanding their strengths equips students to follow Christ and serve humanity in every space they enter, bringing out the best in themselves and recognizing the strengths in others.

"Knowing my strengths helps me realize I can be a Career Peer Coach in my own way instead of trying to be like others whose strengths are different than mine." - M, '26

Your gift will help us purchase disability accessible study carrels, armless and adjustable rolling chairs, and an upgraded closed-circuit camera system for the accessible testing room and individual testing space. Your support will ensure accessibility for students and help them test with more ease and confidence.

"ESS is a space where I can feel less anxious and can test without judgement. I know that these improvements will help me be more successful in accessing my accommodations. These improvements will be the result of hard work to give me the best space possible to succeed!" - Jordan Collins '26

Students are in the midst of a multi-year project to design, build, launch and operate a satellite to measure radiation in space. Your gift will fund the next stage of their work: equipment for the solar power management system and the satellite antenna system to transmit the data from space. Generous donors have previously helped students make significant progress on the project. Your gift today will continue students' efforts and help ensure success!

"I'm looking forward to finally getting to mesh several ideas from different groups on different parts of the project. Specifically, getting the microcontroller communicate with all other parts and carry out their designed tasks is going to be challenging but extremely satisfying." - Noah Mitton '28

The Freelap Timing System we implemented a few years ago helps our athletes run faster than ever. Your gift will fund additional chips, which are fastened to the athletes and allow us to instantly measure their speed and make valuable adjustments during practice. 

Throughout the academic year, Whitworth's Catholic Fellowship community celebrates Holy Mass. Items such as altar linens, candles and a eucharistic chalice will help the Catholic community participate in the preparations for Mass.

"Having Mass on campus is extremely important for the spiritual and communal health of Whitworth Catholics. It is a sure way to gather the community." - Jacob Luciano '25

Whitworth hosts numerous annual events for student research presentations, including the honors program showcase, senior capstone exhibits, the Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference, and summer STEM presentations. This research growth will continue to increase, expanding the need to support students' presentations. 

"I am a senior in the honors program, a double STEM major, and someone with a deep love of learning. After working hundreds of hours in the lab I am so thankful to present the product of my time and dedication in a setting with the facilities which denote the value of my experience here at Whitworth. As a first-generation student as well, this is my opportunity to show my family what their daughter has achieved in University." - Dez Hernandez '26 (Neuroscience)

Your gift is an investment in future artists and educators, expanding access for art & design majors and non-majors for years to come. 

"As a senior and a 3D art major, the ceramics class has always been jam-packed with students, both majors and non-majors alike. More wheels would mean more space for people to explore the arts, without the stress of racing for a spot in the classroom." - Ann Reitz '26

We have launched the Whitworth Writers Workshop, a faith-based low-residency MFA writing program. Most MFA programs in the U.S. are partially or fully funded. To be competitive, your gift will help us fund tuition or travel to campus for our first few cohorts of graduate writers. 

Your gift will help send student-editors for Rock & Sling, Whitworth's national literary journal, to the AWP Conference & Bookfair in Baltimore, M.D. this spring. AWP is the largest annual gathering of writers in North America. Students staff our booth at the bookfair, representing our "journal of witness"; gain professional experience; and attend panel discussions and readings. This is an incredible opportunity to network with magazine editors, meet our contributors, and experience the world of publishing and writing.

As their class gift, the Class of 2026 will plant a cherry blossom tree grove on the west side of the Whitworth Library, lining the sidewalk between Robinson Science Hall and Dornsife Health Sciences Building. The flowering Autumnalis and Kwanzan cherry trees will beautifully symbolize the growth and perseverance of the Class of 2026.

We’re proud to have a beautiful field to compete on, and your gift to renovate the dugout and locker room will further elevate the student-athlete experience! A comfortable, functional and organized locker room and dugout will provide a supportive home for the Whitworth softball team, reflect the pride and dedication our student-athletes bring to the game, and play a vital role in recruiting the next generation of Whitworth softball talent.

Your support will provide two new study pods for the first floor of the Whitworth Library. Each pod includes built-in power, a desk, and comfortable seating to create a semi-private, distraction-free study environment. The library currently has study pods (thanks to past One Pine Day donors!), but the need has grown. With you, students will have additional quiet and comfortable spaces to learn, collaborate and thrive.

Your gift will provide stipends for international students to travel home to visit their families. In her time at Whitworth, Lulú González built a vibrant community in the Intercultural Student Center that continues to be a “home away from home" for many. To honor her legacy, your gift will offset the high cost of international flights, removing barriers preventing international students from journeying home.

“It just feels really great to know that Whitworth supports their international students and they are willing to help us go home. International students go through a lot. We’re far from home. We’re in a new country, in a new culture, with new people. This support that the university and donors give us is so, so essential.” - Nina Lessa Susin '28, Political Science and Sociology

Your support will encourage students to continue or try climbing for the first time and will improve our annual climbing competition, Semper Liberi, which is open to the campus and Spokane communities. Climbers will benefit from the fresh, creative challenges the new holds offer.

“The climbing wall has brought me a sense of community and belonging here at Whitworth. I am excited about the possibility of new holds because of the new challenges and variety they will bring.” - Hilton Van Wagner '29

Your gift will provide vital scholarship support for students. The Whitworth Scholarship Fund helps make a transformative education possible for students from all backgrounds. With your gift, students will be equipped for successful careers, deepen their faith, and grow into servant-leaders who meet humanity's needs with compassion and confidence.

Your gift will fund boom mics, shotgun mics and sound mixers to help students produce exceptional work for their filmmaking classes and film projects. Your generosity will allow students to showcase their original films at festival competitions, on social media and in job portfolios.

"I loved making film projects in my Film Production class, but sound is such an important part of filmmaking, and we didn’t learn much about it since we couldn’t have hands-on experience with equipment. The lack of audio equipment also made our films harder to shoot, edit and watch. It was tricky to position cameras in a way that would get the desired angle and pick up the best audio, too. Whitworth’s film classes really need this equipment." - Emma Mangum '27