"Dam Proud Day connected us with support networks we didn't know existed. The support from donors has revolutionized our financial outlook for next year. Because of Dam Proud Day we'll be able to send 15 students to the ITE Western District Annual Conference this summer. This will provide our members with technical learnings, networking opportunities, and help advance their careers!"

Emilio Calderon
President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE@OSU)

As part of the Beaver Backers program, Emilio inspired 44 people to donate this year! Thank you to the 85 donors who gave $4,760 to this professional development organization.

“This was my first Dam Proud Day on campus and to look out and see our diversity, our community, and the way that we support and lift each other up was so gratifying to see. I’ve met students that have received scholarships and to know that we are making a difference — it’s what makes Dam Proud Day so extraordinarily important to me.”

Penny Yano Atkins, ’79
Immediate Past Chair,
OSU Foundation Board of Trustees

Special thanks to our Dam Proud Day heroes

• ~ 200 volunteers made the day fun.
  
  
• More than 50 student clubs organized for the first time ever, raising $50,000.
  
  
• This year’s Dam Proud Day Live broadcast featured more than 60 segments with many perspectives on how OSU is inspiring student success while supporting student needs.
  
  
• 315 Ambassadors helped inspire nearly 3,000 donations, raising $187,000. Congratulations to our new Beaver Backers: 120 Ambassadors who inspired five or more gifts for areas they care about.
  
  
• Building student philanthropy: Student donors increased by 67% over last year!
  
  
• Challenge gift donors made 250 challenges totaling more than $1.5 million to inspire community giving.

Challenge Prize Winners

Special thanks to our prize donors, the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees Chair Penny Atkins, ’79, past chairs Eric Schoenstein, ’88, Ruth Beyer, ’77, John Stirek, ’82, Tom Toomey, ’82, Jon DeVaan, ’85, and chair-elect Dave Underriner, ’81, who together gave $175,000 for the OSU Foundation Trustees Challenges.

• Student club with the most dollars raised: Institute of Transportation Engineers
  
  
• Student club with the most gifts: Silver Talons Drill Team
  
  
• $25,000 to the fund that attracted the most dollars: Finish in Four
  
  
• $20,000 to the university program with the most gifts: Student Affairs
  • $6,666 to second place, Extension & Engagement
• $20,000 to the athletics project with the most gifts: Women’s Rowing
  • $6,666 to second place, Wrestling
• $20,000 to the college or campus with the most gifts raised: College of Agricultural Sciences
  • $6,666 to second place, College of Engineering
• $10,000 to the project with the highest number of new donors: OSU-KidSpirit
  
  
• $10,000 to the project with the biggest year-over-year percentage increase in donors: Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) Student Success Fund
  
  
• $10,000 to the project with the biggest year-over-year percentage increase in dollars: OSU Alumni Association Scholarship Fund
  
  
• 10 prizes of $2,000 awarded to the project that received the most gifts during specific times
  • 7 a.m. - 10 a.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Student Affairs
  • 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Women’s Rowing
  • 9 p.m. -midnight: Women’s Rowing
    
    
• $5,000 to the project that has never participated and received the most gifts: Dairy Science Building Oregon Quality Food & Beverage Products Initiative Fund

Additional Awards

• $500 to the Ambassador who raises the most dollars: Karen Swanger
  
• $500 to the Ambassador who inspires the most donors: Mattie Rowlands

Unit / College Leaderboard:

• College of Forestry | 192 gifts totaling $211,273
  
  
• College of Agricultural Sciences | 706 gifts totaling $194,027
  
  
• College of Engineering | 252 gifts totaling $173,155 
  
  
• 4-H Foundation | 152 gifts totaling $166,730 
  
  
• Finish in Four | 206 gifts totaling $147,548 
  
  
• College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences | 155 gifts totaling $135,821 
  
  
• Athletics, Wrestling | 486 gifts totaling $133,981 
  
  
• Athletics, Women’s Rowing | 1,202 gifts totaling $133,120 
  
  
• Student Affairs | 785 gifts totaling $117,353 
  
  
• OSU-Cascades | 176 gifts totaling $112,920

The Dam Proud Day Spirit Award: The embodiment of being Dam Proud

Student Affairs was the engine that ignited student organizations to champion their causes, and they set the tone for what being Dam Proud of Oregon State means to the student body.

Above: Student Affairs rep Adam Drey accepts the Spirit Award.

Dean’s Cup Winner: College with the most funds raised.

College of Forestry takes the win for the second year in a row!

Above: Tom DeLuca (second from right) , the Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn C. Ford Dean of the College of Forestry, dressed as a snail during the inaugural Dam Proud Day Forestry 5K run.