The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation announced today it is creating an Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize totaling $9,500 annually to Portland State University (PSU) art students. It will be the largest cash award offered in the School of Art and Design at PSU.
A $1 million boost to a Portland State University program benefits academic aces and delivers the third-largest gift for a scholarship endowment in the institution's history.
Carl Talton, executive chair of the Portland Family of Funds and its affiliates United Fund Advisors and Northwest Community Capital Fund, has joined the PSU Foundation Board of Trustees.
Rachel Hitchcock, University Advancement; and J.R. Tarabocchia, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, presented "How to Start a Major Gift Campaign with a Non-Traditional Student Population" at the Student Affairs Development Conference in Louisville, Ky., July 23.
The late Verdell Rutherford hoped all the things she saved -- newspapers, photographs, letters, cards, memorabilia from the early days of the NAACP -- would one day tell the story of African-Americans in Portland and Oregon.