Welcome to the sixth and final week of The Whole U’s Dare to Do New Year’s challenge! This week, we are challenging ourselves to Dare to Give, exploring the many ways to be generous with time, talent, and treasure. Read on to learn about the many ways that giving can feel great with tips from Jolyn [...]

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Let’s talk about the power of one. Of the 16 million members who are part of the Be The Match marrow donor registry, it only takes one person to save a life. Be The Match connects patients with their donor match for a life-saving marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant by managing the largest and [...]

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If you’ve ever made a charitable donation via the University of Washington Combined Fund Drive (UWCFD), you likely already know how easy, efficacious, and impactful it is to make that gift. But do you know just how many fun and active ways there are of giving back this fall? Throughout November, the UWCFD is truly [...]

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It’s not every day that pedestrians at the University of Washington come face to face with a grounded Barred Owl. The scene outside Allen Library early on the morning of September 13 stopped Marie Eaton in her tracks on her way to a conference. “You could see his eyes blink so we knew he was [...]

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Running from October 2 to December 6, the UW Combined Fund Drive (UWCFD) is the University of Washington’s annual workplace giving campaign. We caught up with Mindy Kornberg, Vice President of UW Human Resources and UWCFD’s longtime executive sponsor, to learn more about giving’s profound impact in providing lasting hope to our community, nation and [...]

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Whenever you walk, move, or exercise, you’re doing your heart a world of good. According to the American Heart Association, exercising 30 minutes a day five days a week will improve your heart health and help reduce your risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affecting one in every [...]

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The Lancet Commission identified climate change as the greatest threat to public health. The health care sector in the United States alone contributes almost 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change which is harmful to human health. The health impacts of our changing climate include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries [...]

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Richard Cordova recalls asking himself in eighth grade, “What am I going to do with my life?” Decades later, Cordova, who is now the executive director of UW’s Internal Audit, is helping other eighth graders do the same, only with an even greater sense of direction and purpose. For the last twelve years, Cordova has [...]

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When Landon Bennett decided to register to be a potential marrow donor with Be The Match, the then-UW sophomore hardly gave it a second thought. He’d donated blood before, so why not stem cells or bone marrow? He knew two relatives who’d come to Washington for marrow and stem cell transplants as treatment for leukemia [...]

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Neither snow, nor sleet, nor slush will keep the Valentine’s Day mail at UW Medical Center. On Thursday, more than 650 Valentine’s will be delivered to inpatients—each card handcrafted by a member of the UW community. Plaza Café staff will be putting a Valentine on every patient’s meal tray on the 14th—what UWMC Art Program [...]

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This article is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the first-of-its-kind partnership between the University of Washington and Be The Match, the nation’s largest marrow donor registry. Its aim is to encourage people—particularly people of color with mixed-ancestries—to register as potential donors as part of a commitment to grow and diversify the registry, thus increasing the [...]

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You might have noticed something happening across University of Washington campuses this fall: pop-up events drawing co-workers together in support of good causes to make real difference in Washington state and around the world. Whether attending Halloween costume contests, chili cook-offs, service dog meet-and-greets or simply by giving on their own, UW faculty, staff, and retirees [...]

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