{"id":29772,"date":"2025-05-02T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=29772"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:00:43","slug":"tail-wagging-success-characterizes-pvms-participation-in-purdue-day-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/tail-wagging-success-characterizes-pvms-participation-in-purdue-day-of-giving.php","title":{"rendered":"Tail-Wagging Success Characterizes PVM&#8217;s Participation in Purdue Day of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the day dawned Wednesday, April 30, evidence came pouring in that Boilermakers everywhere \u2013 whether alumni, friends and\/or fans \u2013 were answering the call to make the 2025 Purdue Day of Giving our loudest and proudest \u201cAll hail!\u201d yet. And Purdue Veterinary Medicine played a part in the success!<br><br>When the 24-hour fundraising drive concluded, another record was broken. A total of 36,875 gifts brought in $105.1 million for the university.<br><br>For the College of Veterinary Medicine, PVM pride was shining bright in the midst of that success. Whether in and around Lynn Hall or online, enthusiasm and generosity was abundantly evident. For the day, the college landed a top ten finish on the Purdue Day of Giving total donations leaderboard and the college\u2019s Purdue Day of Giving participation jumped 33% over 2024, propelling the college to a 6th place over all finish in the Giant Leaps Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The college also saw excellent social media traffic, thanks to great effort and creativity on the part of many who contributed posts and the leadership team overseeing the social media campaign for the college.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2088-copy1-scaled.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dean Bret Marsh joined <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/vcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VCS<\/a> faculty members Sarah Waxman and Jesus Hermida for a photo op during the morning hour that was set aside for donuts and coffee with the dean to encourage participation in the Purdue Day of Giving faculty-staff challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A huge thank you to everyone associated with Purdue Veterinary Medicine who participated in the Purdue Day of Giving, whether by volunteering, donating, or sharing PVM Pride online!<br><br>Your extraordinary generosity makes you one of Purdue\u2019s heroes and helps us achieve new victories. We are ever grateful for the overwhelming response we received and your willingness to give back to the old gold and black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignfull is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Purdue Day of Giving 2025 | Thank You!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDV6BKsqPyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To view highlights from the day, including the final leaderboards and winners of the hourly challenges, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/dayofgiving.purdue.edu\/\">https:\/\/dayofgiving.purdue.edu\/<\/a>.<br><br>Congratulations PVM! Boiler Up, and all hail our own Purdue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the day dawned Wednesday, April 30, evidence came pouring in that Boilermakers everywhere \u2013 whether alumni, friends and\/or fans \u2013 were answering the call to make the 2025 Purdue Day of Giving our loudest and proudest \u201cAll hail!\u201d yet.  And Purdue Veterinary Medicine played a part in the success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,28,29],"tags":[595,56,269,25],"class_list":["post-29772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-our-impact","category-our-people","tag-development","tag-homepage","tag-purdue-day-of-giving","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29772"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29786,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions\/29786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}