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Fuel Student Futures With Your Year-End Gift by December 31, 2025

Invest in Student Success: Give Hope. Give Opportunity. Give to What Matters.

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Widener Fund 🦁💙💛

The Widener Fund empowers the university to meet emerging needs, seize new opportunities, and invest boldly in student success. With flexible funding, Widener can pivot quickly to expand innovative programs, invest in financial aid, strengthen student services, and fuel ideas that shape the future.

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Student Success Scholarships 🎓

Student Success Scholarships open doors for students by removing financial barriers to a transformative Widener education—allowing them to focus on growth, discovery, and the full university experience.

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Student Emergency Fund ⚠️

The Student Emergency Fund helps Chester Campus students stay enrolled through unexpected financial hardship. Your support provides immediate stability and dignity, offering a lifeline when they need it most.

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The Pride Pantry 🫶

The Pride Pantry provides students facing food insecurity with free nonperishable and essential items. Your gift strengthens its mission and ensures students have the stability they need to stay healthy, focused, and ready to succeed.

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Spotlighting Widener's Largest Gift in its 200+ History

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Alumnus Jack Dwyer ’78 and his wife Nancy Dwyer made a $10 million gift to name the new Jack & Nancy Dwyer School of Nursing

Additionally, the gift will fuel efforts to reimagine nursing leadership roles with a new, innovative program designed to strengthen leadership capacity for those in director of nursing roles in skilled nursing facilities.

Nancy and I saw that Widener has done a tremendous job with its nursing school and we wanted to contribute to that effort." 
— Jack Dwyer '78