Youngstown State University and the YSU Foundation received a record $24.1 million in gifts in the 2021-22 fiscal year, the largest one-year total in the university’s 114-year history. “Our donors are among the most generous and supportive anywhere in the nation,” YSU...

Pictured from left to right: Andrew Zajac, Joe Carano, Denny Robb, Amber DeJulio, Jim Kerrigan, and Brian Nord. The Hubbard High School Alumni Association Foundation agreed to move its $175,000 endowment to the YSU Foundation to manage the fund, acknowledgment of...

Pictured from left to right: Kim Simon, Jeff Simon, Wendy Weiss, Charlie Masters, and YSU President Jim Tressel. The Ward Beecher Science Hall Greenhouse is being named the Sandy Simon Greenhouse, in recognition of a $450,000 gift to renovate the facility.  The Sandy...

The Youngstown State University Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of four new trustees to its Board of Trustees, with two-year terms that began on May 23rd, 2022. Germaine Bennett, Capri Cafaro, Dr. Chander Kohli, and Dr. Kathleen Padgitt are those...

Mr. Fisher (forth from the right) with his family on the Leonard J. Fisher Family Balcony in the McDonough Museum of Art.  Leonard Fisher, president and chairman of the board of Handel’s Ice Cream, will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at Youngstown State...

Rick and Joni Blase, the owners of Boot Factory Outlet, have made a $100,000 gift to the James P. Tressel Institute for Leadership and Teamwork. Rick Blase is a member of the YSU Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Blase Family established the Blase Scholarship in...