Bianca Deslouches \u201911<\/strong>.<\/p>\nAs philanthropist and author\u00a0MacKenzie Scott noted when she\u00a0donated $40 million to UCF last year:\u00a0\u201cGenerosity is generative. Sharing\u00a0makes more.\u201d A recent study from the\u00a0University of Bristol in England confirms\u00a0that, yes, giving is contagious, just look at\u00a0the evidence here at UCF.<\/p>\n
During the first UCF Day of Giving\u00a0in 2018, donors gave $157,000. In\u00a02021, the giving more than quintupled\u00a0to $835,000. Hundreds of gifts were\u00a0symbolic, such as $20.21, and at least\u00a0one was enormous, including a $250,000\u00a0gift from Jessica Blume \u201980 and her\u00a0husband, Ken, who wanted to support a\u00a0scholarship program for first-generation\u00a0business students.<\/p>\n
The spirit of generosity moved\u00a0more than 3,000 gifts in 2021 \u2014 60%\u00a0more than in 2018 \u2014 to go online to\u00a0lift others up. Among them, 92 people\u00a0rallied behind the Joyce DeGennaro\u00a0Memorial Scholarship, in honor of the\u00a0UCF alum and instructor who taught the\u00a0importance of empathy to her nursing\u00a0students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will absolutely be a more caring\u00a0nurse, thanks to her,\u201d says alum Megan\u00a0Donnelly \u201913 \u201921<\/strong>. She\u2019s expanding\u00a0DeGennaro\u2019s legacy. And, like every\u00a0donor on UCF Day of Giving, she\u2019s living\u00a0out DeGennaro\u2019s most important lesson:\u00a0Do unto others … .<\/p>\nThat\u2019s the reason\u00a0another 80 people\u00a0gave last year to what is quickly\u00a0becoming a cornerstone of selflessness\u00a0at UCF \u2014 Limbitless Solutions. UCF\u00a0alum Albert Manero \u201912 \u201914MS\u00a0\u201916PhD<\/strong> cofounded Limbitless with two\u00a0classmates, John Sparkman \u201913 \u201915MS\u00a0<\/strong>and Dominique Courbin \u201918<\/strong>, in 2014.\u00a0Their goal at the time exemplifies the\u00a0spirit of giving: to design, create and\u00a0give bionic arms to children with limb\u00a0differences \u2014 free of charge. They used\u00a0$200 of their own money to take the first\u00a0Limbitless arm from concept to reality\u00a0for a 6-year-old boy who\u2019d never known\u00a0what it was like to hug with two arms.\u00a0Limbitless now has an entire community\u00a0of Knights behind their work.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have people everywhere,\u201d\u00a0Manero says of the recently opened\u00a06,000-square-foot facility in Research\u00a0Park, where 40 undergraduates come\u00a0to learn and lend expertise in fields\u00a0ranging from biology and graphic art to\u00a0psychology, theater and engineering.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe donations from UCF Day of Giving have allowed us to bring in more interns and amplify what we do,\u201d Manero says. \u201cEveryone \u2014 the donors, the students, the families who we help \u2014 becomes part of a robust story.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is what\u00a0philanthropy can\u00a0do. It makes dreams\u00a0come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Albert Manero \u201912 \u201914MS \u201916PhD<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTo summarize: More donations means\u00a0more interns. More interns means more\u00a0impact. More impact means empowering\u00a0more people to reach their potential.<\/p>\n
During her internship Julia\u00a0Barry \u201921<\/strong> soldered parts, assembled\u00a0arms and showed recipients how to\u00a0use their bionic arms. In the process,\u00a0her own worldview changed.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ll never forget the connection I felt\u00a0when a girl who\u2019d received a bionic arm\u00a0came to the lab on my birthday and gave\u00a0me a hug,\u201d Barry says. \u201cBecause of that,\u00a0as an engineer, I\u2019ll always think about\u00a0the person on the receiving end of\u00a0whatever I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barry makes perhaps the most\u00a0important point of all. For someone \u2014\u00a0actually, a lot of people \u2014 April 7\u00a0will signify a day of receiving.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what philanthropy can\u00a0do,\u201d Manero says. \u201cIt makes dreams\u00a0come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Join the celebration and make a gift April 7 at dayofgiving.ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On April 7, Knights everywhere will\u00a0celebrate UCF and empower others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":126860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17579],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-126827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-day-of-giving"],"yoast_head":"\n
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