{"id":24011,"date":"2024-07-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=24011"},"modified":"2024-11-20T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:46:31","slug":"pvr-s2024-canine-educators-boost-spirits-and-support-during-purdue-day-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/pvr-s2024-canine-educators-boost-spirits-and-support-during-purdue-day-of-giving.php","title":{"rendered":"Canine Educators Boost Spirits and Support During Purdue Day of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8492-copy_2-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Canine Educators quickly commanded the attention of passersby on the Memorial Mall as the dogs and their care team arrived for \u201cPet-a-Pup\u201d during the Purdue Day of Giving April 24.\" class=\"wp-image-23966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8492-copy_2-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8492-copy_2-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8492-copy_2-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8492-copy_2-1024x768-1-313x235.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Canine Educators quickly commanded the attention of passersby on the Memorial Mall as the dogs and their care team arrived for \u201cPet-a-Pup\u201d during the Purdue Day of Giving April 24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Purdue Day of Giving goes by \u201cPDoG\u201d for short, and you could say the 2024 version of the annual global fundraising effort truly was a \u201cdog\u2019s day\u201d \u2013 in a good way \u2013 for the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. The online and social media-driven fundraising event on April 24 attracted record, world-wide giving from Boilermakers, including Purdue Veterinary Medicine alumni, friends, faculty and staff. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the on-campus festivities, the PVM Canine Educators \u201cstole the show,\u201d so to speak, on Purdue\u2019s Memorial Mall, adjacent to Stewart Center, offering passersby the opportunity to \u201cPet-a-Pup\u201d to brighten their day.&nbsp; The engaging Canine Educators team of Beagles and Labrador Retrievers and their handlers helped energize giving to the college as they greeted people crossing the Memorial Mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the 2024 Purdue Day of Giving, the College of Veterinary Medicine had received more than $3 million in new gifts and funding commitments. Other PDoG highlights for the college included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A top ten finish on the PDoG Leaderboard for total dollars raised, which put the college in sixth place overall.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An eighth-place finish on the \u201cMeet the Challenge\u201d PDoG Leaderboard, representing a 14% increase in overall donor participation compared to 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A total of 263 unique gifts received from PVM donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was inspiring to see so many members of the PVM community taking time out of their busy schedules to celebrate the day or offer support while stopping by the Advancement Office in Lynn Hall or hanging out with the Canine Educators on Memorial Mall,\u201d said Mackenzie Martin, PVM director of client development, who helped coordinate Day of Giving details for the college. \u201cPVM\u2019s success that day in boosting the number of gifts contributed compared to last year\u2019s Day of Giving resulted in the college receiving more than $4,000 in bonus funds!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8446_copy1-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"Canine Educator Bailey stayed close to his care team member, Allison Holahan of the DVM Class of 2025, during the brisk morning conditions on the Purdue Day of Giving.\" class=\"wp-image-23967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8446_copy1-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8446_copy1-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8446_copy1-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_8446_copy1-1024x768-1-313x235.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canine Educator Bailey stayed close to his care team member, Allison Holahan of the DVM Class of 2025, during the brisk morning conditions on the Purdue Day of Giving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It also was a historic fundraising day for Purdue University, with a record 32,054 gifts contributed in the 24-hour period, totaling $76.5 million.\u00a0 The Purdue Day of Giving encompassed all of the university\u2019s campuses as well as Purdue Global. In addition to the money raised from donors, participating programs competed for cash prizes through more than 30 different challenges. Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/dayofgiving.purdue.edu\/leaderboards?title=donation-leaderboard&amp;_ga=2.150721014.1919985895.1714743882-1625761611.1713190688\"><strong>view a PDoG recap<\/strong><\/a> that includes access to the leaderboards showing top finishers for the various Purdue Day of Giving challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the history-making one-day fundraising effort, Purdue President Mung Chiang said, \u201cAs we celebrate the culmination of yet another remarkable Purdue Day of Giving, we are ever grateful for the extraordinary generosity of Boilermakers around the globe.\u201d With the benefit of this year\u2019s record-breaking giving level, the Purdue Day of Giving since its launch in 2014 has raised a cumulative total of $497 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue Day of Giving goes by \u201cPDoG\u201d for short, and you could say the 2024 version of the annual global fundraising effort truly was a \u201cdog\u2019s day\u201d \u2013 in a good way \u2013 for the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,28,42,2181],"tags":[1095,121,56,269,811,560],"class_list":["post-24011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","category-our-impact","category-students","category-wellness","tag-canine-educators","tag-giving","tag-homepage","tag-purdue-day-of-giving","tag-pvm-report","tag-summer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25540,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24011\/revisions\/25540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}