T. Boone Pickens Foundation

MAY 03, 2011

STILLWATER, Oklahoma - The Cherokee Nation Foundation has become the first Native American Nation to endow a scholarship at Oklahoma State University.

The foundation and OSU announced Tuesday, a gift of $333,334 to Oklahoma State University to endow Cherokee Nation Foundation scholarships as part of Branding Success: The Campaign for Oklahoma State University.

With a match from entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens, under the Pickens Legacy Scholarship Match, the gift will total $1 million.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Students tried out their nursing skills on robotic patients Friday as Texas Woman's University held its grand opening for its new health science institute, named for Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens.
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SPOTLIGHT

The T. Boone Pickens Foundation focuses grants to organizations that operate in its core giving categories (see “About TBPF”). The current partner spotlight is an update on the December activities of the USO Dallas/Fort Worth, a non-profit organization that serves personnel in all branches of the military — active duty, National Guard, reserve, retirees, and authorized family members.

USO D/FW Volunteers have been planning for months at D/FW International Airport, preparing for its EXODUS program that will welcome more than 5,500 service men and women during the two-week period from mid-December 2011 through New Year’s Day 2012. Exodus refers to the departure of our military troops stationed at Fort Good Fellow, Fort Hood, Fort Sam Sheppard, and Fort Sill who are traveling home to be with their families and friends for Christmas.

“The Pickens Foundation has supported USO D/FW for a number of years. “USO D/FW does incredible work in caring for our service personnel as they travel through the airport,” Pickens says. “We owe these brave Americans all the comfort and support we can give them as they anxiously await being reunited with their families.”

More than 400 USO D/FW Volunteers are scheduled to be on hand 24/7 to welcome home the troops, serve hot chocolate, coffee, water, soft drinks, donuts, fruit, soup, breakfast sandwiches, and snack bars, etc., as they arrive at D/FW Airport, many in the middle of the night. For some, the Dallas-Fort Worth area is home. For others, the airport represents a layover until their flight departs for cities across the United States. For these troops, volunteers in the USO Center (located at Terminal B, Gate 15) represent a friendly face and a touch of home to those men and women who will spend hours anxiously waiting for their connecting flight to take them home for Christmas.

The USO D/FW, one of only two U.S. airport locations accommodating the Army's Rest and Recuperation program, provided nourishment to thousands of military personnel who traveled through the D/FW Airport last year during the holidays, including formal dinners served on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

“USO DFW maintains the reputation of best-on-the-planet, owing to the generosity of donors like the T. Boone Pickens Foundation,” says Bill Moore, chairman of the D/FW USO Advisory Council.

For more information, call volunteer coordinator Linda Robinson at 972-574-3383 or visit www.uso.org/dfw. For any information on in-kind or monetary donations, please contact USO D/FW Center director Rhenda White-Brunner at 972-574-8764.