Dec 5, 2022 | Feature, Philanthropy, Stories
Cancer doesn’t care about football games or charitable causes, but Alan Gooch ’84 ’89MA does. Gooch, a UCF Athletics Hall of Famer, was moved to help create the Cure Bowl in 2015 as a way of supporting cancer research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. He...
Nov 1, 2022 | Feature, Philanthropy, Stories, UCF News
Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co., co-chairman of the board for the Loews Corporation, and co-owner of the New York Giants, will share his perspectives at Crossroads: The Intersection of Business and Philanthropy, a moderated conversation...
Oct 28, 2022 | CON News, Feature, Philanthropy, Stories
Para la versión en Español, oprima aquí. The Progresando Initiative empowers Hispanic/Latina/o/x adults to achieve economic and social mobility through high-impact careers. Bank of America has selected UCF as a preferred partner for a two-year $250,000 grant to...
Oct 18, 2022 | Feature, Philanthropy, Stories
After the deaths of her husband and only child to cancer, Mildred Adicks knew she wanted to pay tribute to their dedication to education by establishing endowed scholarships in their memory: The Dr. Richard R. Adicks Jr. Memorial Scholarship for English Education and...
Oct 17, 2022 | Feature, Foundation News, Philanthropy, Stories
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and National Hispanic Serving Institutions Week, the UCF Foundation recently hosted local education and business leaders to announce exciting new initiatives in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Rodney M. Grabowski,...
Oct 10, 2022 | CON News, Feature, Philanthropy, Stories
Beatriz Elizabeth Carmona Toro ’05 ’07 ’10MSN has wanted to work in healthcare for as long as she can remember. She was inspired by her mother, who was a physician in Colombia before the family moved to the United States when Carmona Toro was 7. Carmona Toro is the...
