Your generous donations fund scholarships that provide critical support for students who have the ability and aptitude who need resources to help them reach their goals and aspirations. When you give – no matter what amount – you make a difference for a student, their families and this community.
This Giving Tuesday on Dec. 3 and throughout the month of December, we are raising dollars to support student success, help the underserved and provide a foundation for future transformational campus projects.
Funds help purchase items that are not regularly received by donations and to maintain the Cougar Cupboard. Give today.
Non-Perishables, toiletries and baby items are accepted
We can send you a template with the logo, and you just pit in your dates
Hosting an event? Encourage all attendees to bring two cans of food for entry or a discount for entry
Pick up an extra bag of groceries and donate them directly to the Cougar Cupboard
Named in honor of General James Mattis, these funds will support the library in the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans Center. General Mattis is a Pacific Northwest native who served more than four decades as a Marine infantry officer. Following two years as the Secretary of Defense, he returned to the Northwest becoming an honorary Coug by supporting the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans club.
To help support General Mattis and the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans Center you can donate funds below to help purchase materials for the library or you can pick out and purchase a book from the list below and have it sent to WSU Tri-Cities, c/o Kelly Gabel, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA 99354. The books purchased are those hand-picked and read by General Mattis. This list of books can also be found in Call Sign Chaos, Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis and Bing West, p. 258-259.
If you have any questions please contact Kelly Gabel at 509-372-7398. Thank you!
“The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.”
Read more about General Mattis’ thoughts on the importance of reading.
“Meditations,” by Marcus Aurelius
“Invisible Armies” & “The Savage Wars of Peace,” by Max Boot
“Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War,” by Robert Coram
“Fighting Power,” by Martin Van Crevald
“One Bullet Away,” by Nate Fick
“Personal Memoirs,” by Gen U.S. Grant
“Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace and Strategy,” by Colin Gray
“Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American” & Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon,” by Liddell-Hart’
“Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand
“The Far Pavilions,” by M.M. Kaye
“Dereliction of Duty,” by H.R. McMaster’s
“Long Walk to Freedom,” by Mandela
“Military Innovation in the Interwar Period” & “Successful Strategies,” by Williamson Murray
“Once An Eagle,” by Anton Myrer
“The Direction of War,” by Hew Strachan
“My American Journey,” by Colin Powell
“Gates of Fire,” by Steven Pressfield
“The Forgotten Soldier,” by Guy Sajer
“Killer Angels,” by Michael Shaara
“Turmoil and Triumph” & “Issues On My Mind,” by George P. Shultz
“Defeat Into Victory,” by Viscount Slim
“The Cruel Sea,” by Nicholas Monsarrat
“Duty,” by Robert Gates
“The Greatest Raid of All,” by C.E. Lucas Phillips
“The Lessons of History,” by Will & Ariel Durrant
“Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow
“A Savage War of Peace,” by Alistair Horne
“Tabea’s Story,” by Betty Iverson & Tabea Springer
“The Art of War,” by Sun Tzu
“The Rules of the Game,” by Andrew Gordon
“The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,” Paul Kennedy
“National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear,” by David Rothkopf
“March of Folly” & “The Guns of August,” by Barbara Tuckman
“The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat,” by Vali Nasar
“Diplomacy” & “World Order,” by Henry Kissinger
“The Boys in the Boat,” by Daniel James Brown
“American Caesar” & “Goodbye Darkness,” by William Manchester
“Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War,” by Max Hasting
“A Peace to End All Peace,” by David Fromkin
“With the Old Breed,” by E.B. Sledge
“Just and Unjust Wars,” by Michael Walzer
“Other Men’s Flowers,” (poetry) by Wavell
“The Village,” by Bing West
“Before the First Shot is Fired,” by Anthony Zinni
“War, Morality and the Military Profession,” by Malham Wakin
“For Country and Corps,” by Gail Shisler
“The Caine Mutiny,” by Herman Wouk
“Never Quit the Fight,” by Ralph Peter
“The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,” by Max Lerner
“Warfighting,” by Marine Corps Doctrine Publication 1
“Strategy, Ethics and the ‘War on Terrorism,’ ” by Albert Pierce
“Lord Jim,” by Joseph Conrad
“Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” by T.E. Lawrence
“Kim,” by Rudyard Lawrence
“Battle Cry of Freedom,” by James McPherson
“The Viceroy’s Journey,” by Archibald Wavell
WSU Tri-Cities Entrepreneurial Assistance Fund, was created to provide support for educational programs at WSU Tri-Cities that engage students and faculty in the support of small business and the economic development of the region.
The fund provides support for internships or multi-disciplinary team-based projects that engage students in real-world applications benefitting small business and entrepreneurs. Support may also include professional development and lectures related to entrepreneurship, commercialization of new innovations, sustainability practices, business planning and other related areas.
WSU Tri-Cities is your university — whether that is literally the case because you are an alumnus or simply because we impact your community and the world. WSU Tri-Cities is an institution that educates your children at the university level, prepares a highly skilled workforce for employers, researches issues affecting local businesses and global needs and participates fully in economic development efforts. You know that your gifts to WSU Tri-Cities will make a real difference.
Like every other university in the country, Washington State University Tri-Cities needs private, philanthropic support — your support. State funds alone cannot provide the resources required to achieve the vision of an even greater education for our students. We encourage you to help us to prepare graduates who are industry ready for employment and competitive on a global scale, who will become contributing members of society and make the world a better place.
Your gifts to WSU Tri-Cities remain here on this campus. We will use all the resources at hand to become recognized as a destination campus, valued for the depth and breadth of our academic quality, preferred for personalized education and smaller class sizes, known for our availability of scholarship assistance, and selected for accessibility of meaningful internship opportunities.
We know that every gift has a unique story behind it. We’d love to hear yours.
Named in honor of General James Mattis, these funds will support the library in the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans Center. General Mattis is a Pacific Northwest native who served more than four decades as a Marine infantry officer. Following two years as the Secretary of Defense, he returned to the Northwest becoming an honorary Coug by supporting the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans club.
To help support General Mattis and the WSU Tri-Cities Veterans Center you can donate funds below to help purchase books and materials for the library. The books purchased will be those hand-picked and read by General Mattis. If interested, these books can be found in Call Sign Chaos, Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis and Bing West, p. 258-259.
Funds help purchase items that are not regularly received by donations and to maintain the Cougar Cupboard. Give today.
Non-Perishables, toiletries and baby items are accepted
We can send you a template with the logo, and you just pit in your dates
Hosting an event? Encourage all attendees to bring two cans of food for entry or a discount for entry
Pick up an extra bag of groceries and donate them directly to the Cougar Cupboard
WSU Tri-Cities Entrepreneurial Assistance Fund, was created to provide support for educational programs at WSU Tri-Cities that engage students and faculty in the support of small business and the economic development of the region.
The fund provides support for internships or multi-disciplinary team-based projects that engage students in real-world applications benefitting small business and entrepreneurs. Support may also include professional development and lectures related to entrepreneurship, commercialization of new innovations, sustainability practices, business planning and other related areas.
Yuliya Baranovskaya, a child of immigrants from the Republic of Moldova and a junior studying business administration, received the Peter Smith Finance Excellence Endowment award. She says, “With this generous gift, you are helping my dream become a reality, as it will be used to further my education and bolster my future prospects. I will continue to pursue excellence in my studies and at work, and will always remember to give back, as you have given to me. I hope to one day be where you are, listening to a student describe this scholarship and how truly valuable it is, not only on a practical level, but as an inspiring vote of confidence. Both are greatly appreciated.”
Executive Director Advancement & Community Engagement
509-372-7207
East 239
Jaime.heppler@wsu.edu