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Donors from almost every state in the country showed their support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a group of generous donors, several one-time challenge gifts helped inspire increased giving. As challenges were achieved, bonus funds were \u201cunlocked\u201d \u2013 adding thousands of dollars in support of UCF programs and scholarships. Members of the UCF Foundation Board sponsored a $320,800 challenge gift and members of the UCF Alumni Board\u00a0 sponsored $30,850.<\/p>\n<p>Results are still being tallied, but so far the top-supported funds included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucffoundation.org\/ways-of-giving\">Area of Greatest Need<\/a> ($37,300) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucffoundation.org\/givetofirstgen\">First Generation Scholarships<\/a> ($36,776), Keep Charging On Fund for UCF Athletics ($23,586), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucffoundation.org\/mk40years\">Marching Band Fund<\/a> ($10,772) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucffoundation.org\/joyce\">Joyce DeGennaro Memorial Scholarship<\/a> ($14,325) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucffoundation.org\/limbitless\">Limbitless Solutions<\/a> ($13,320).<\/p>\n<p>A $250,000 gift from <strong>Jessica Blume \u201980<\/strong> and her husband, Ken, will support a scholarship program for business students who are the first in their families to attend college. This commitment, which marks the largest single gift in the history of the UCF Day of Giving campaign, will provide greater opportunities for first-generation students to graduate from college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,100 donors contributed over $835,000, living up to the hype of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dayofgiving.ucf.edu\/\">Greatest Day of Giving<\/a>&#8221; the university set out to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":118795,"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":[15992,5,6],"tags":[7309,4869,17579,15761,3703,202,4857],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-118792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-colleges","category-community","tag-college-of-business","tag-college-of-nursing","tag-day-of-giving","tag-pegasus-briefs","tag-philanthropy","tag-alumni","tag-ucf-athletics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Sees Record Numbers for Day of Giving 2021 | 海角直播 News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 3,100 donors contributed over $835,000, living up to the hype of the &quot;Greatest Day of Giving&quot; 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