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The Student Emergency Fund provides limited, one-time, financial assistance when students are unable to meet immediate, essential expenses because of a temporary emergency. Given the limited amount of funds, not all requests can be approved even though there may be a clear need for assistance. Your donations are critical to making more assistance available.

Gifts that support scholarships and the Student Emergency Fund have the most direct impact on providing opportunities for students and helping them succeed.

Early in the pandemic, when Eastern was forced to shift to virtual learning, many students were left without the technology they needed to continue their educations. Fortunately, the EWU Foundation and the university’s Student Care Team recognized the need and quickly utilized the Student Emergency Fund to purchase Chromebooks. Two hundred were distributed at the beginning of spring quarter.

Almost immediately, the thank you notes streamed in. Janastasia Jackson-Stiller was one of those students. She said the support meant a lot to students who, like her, were feeling overwhelmed with online learning.

“I just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude and appreciation,” Jackson-Stiller wrote. “I was blessed with a laptop grant and that was great news. It gave me the confidence I needed to tackle my new online classes. When I picked the laptop up and took it home, I expected it to be [just] a tool to get me from point A to point B in my academics. I was brought to tears when I got home and opened it up: It was absolutely beautiful. It may seem like a small thing, but in the midst of all this upheaval and uncertainty I was truly blessed by this.”