{"id":18144,"date":"2024-10-03T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18144"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:31:51","slug":"alumna-establishes-first-endowed-scholarship-through-million-dollar-match-scholarship-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/alumna-establishes-first-endowed-scholarship-through-million-dollar-match-scholarship-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Establishes First Endowed Scholarship Through Million Dollar Match Scholarship Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beth Bowers \u201979<\/p><\/div>\n

Elizabethtown College alumna Beth Bowers \u201979 has been a longtime supporter of her alma mater and many of its fundraising initiatives. So when she was presented with the opportunity to create a scholarship through Etown\u2019s Million Dollar Match <\/a>initiative, she jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n

The Million Dollar Match<\/a> is the most significant fundraising match in the College\u2019s history, offering the opportunity for\u00a020 first-time endowed scholarship donors to build a lasting legacy\u00a0and open doors to higher education for future generations of Etown students. Utilizing a $500,000 challenge fund, Etown will match new $25,000 scholarship commitments to create $1 million in funding to support student scholarships.<\/p>\n

Bowers was the first donor to capitalize on this remarkable matching opportunity. The Beth Bowers \u201979 Scholarship will support students who are majoring in Exercise Science.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, there are various ways to give back to the College, but the scholarship really allowed me to go beyond just supporting the Annual Fund and other giving opportunities,\u201d Bowers said. \u201cIt feels like a more personal connection and saying, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m making a difference for these particular students.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bowers said it was the dollar-for-dollar matching opportunity that really resonated with her. \u201cIt really is a way to make (the scholarship support) go further,\u201d she said. \u201cI saw this as an opportunity to begin something that I could build upon as time goes by.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowers, who majored in Business Administration at Etown and retired last year as Senior Vice President \u2013 Commercial Closing Services at Fulton Bank, was a member of Etown\u2019s varsity field hockey and softball teams. She noted that athletics was very important to her from an early age, and she wanted her scholarship to focus on supporting that area, hence the focus on the Exercise Science major.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy past involvement in sports really helped build some qualities that I think made me more successful in navigating my career \u2013 things like building trust, communication, finding the strengths in different team members,\u201d Bowers said. \u201cSince Etown is an NCAA Division III school and can\u2019t provide athletic scholarships per se, I wanted to support a major that relates to physical activity, nutrition, and those things tied to sports and athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her Etown experience was defined by relationships, especially those with her teammates, classmates, coaches, and staff. Etown\u2019s founding values and Educate for Service motto provided her with a strong foundation throughout her life and career that reinforced the importance of giving back to the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely would encourage others to participate in the Million Dollar Match,\u201d Bowers said. \u201cThis matching opportunity really allows your contribution to go further and provide some ongoing financial support, and it allows students who might not have an opportunity to really benefit from the Etown experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Million Dollar Match or to secure your match, visit etown.edu\/giving<\/a> or contact IA@etown.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College alumna Beth Bowers \u201979 has been a longtime supporter of her alma mater and many of its fundraising initiatives. So when she was presented with the opportunity to create a scholarship through Etown\u2019s Million Dollar Match initiative, she jumped at the chance. The Million Dollar Match is the most significant fundraising match in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":18164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[197,1350,2245,337],"class_list":["post-18144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-million-dollar-match","tag-scholarships","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18160,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions\/18160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}