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Building Beds and Building Community: Students Help Families in Need
Students are stepping up to ensure children in need have a safe place to sleep through a partnership with Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP), a national nonprofit with a location in Sioux City, Iowa. The initiative, coordinated by the Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement, involves assembling and delivering beds to families in the […]
Dakotathon Raises Over $94,000 for Sanford Children’s Miracle Network
On April 20, USD hosted the 27th annual Dakotathon in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center, helping to raise over $94,000.00 for South Dakota’s Children’s Miracle Network hospital, the Sanford Children’s Hospital. The 12-hour long dance marathon event concluded the year-long fundraising season and included multiple activities, including dancing to fun music, […]
A Look at Which Orgs Garner More Funds
USD’s Student Government Association voted which student organizations should be considered as “large organizations” for the upcoming year. Large organization status means that an organization has access to a greater funding pool than most of the others organizations on campus. This year, SGA voted to approve eight organizations as […]
Dakotathon Fundraisers are Full of Success
Dakotathon is busy creating fundraisers throughout the school year to plan for its big marathon event on April 1. Dakotathon is a yearlong fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network; marathon event. At the marathon, Miracle Children from around the region are invited to spend the day with the Dakotathon participants. Madison Sundvold, the executive director, said […]
Dakotathon: Helping children one donation at a time
The largest student-led nonprofit organization in South Dakota held its biggest event, the Dance Marathon, in person for the first time since 2019. Dakotathon is a year-long fundraising event supporting the Children’s Miracle Network. This year, the Miracle Children from the Sanford Children’s Hospital were welcomed back to the Sanford Coyote Sports Center (SCSC). Students, […]
Dakotathon exceeds goal during push week
The 25-year anniversary of Dakotathon is this year, and with that came a push week goal of $25,000 raised for the week of Oct. 18-21, including a $15,000 goal for Thursday, Oct. 21. Dakotathon, a campus organization that raises money for the Children’s Miracle Network and the Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls, raised $26,791 […]
Groups petition SGA for large organization status
Several student organizations presented to the Student Government Association in hopes to get categorized as large student organizations. As a large student organization at USD, more General Activity Fee (GAF) funding is available. Among the organizations, the Hammock Club president Margaret Meierhenry presented. Meierhenry said there are over 300 students in the organization, making Hammock Club […]
Dakotathon Has a Full Schedule of Events Planned For the Semester
Dakotathon is prepared and ready to fundraise despite the unprecedented year. The Dakotathon team has the semester packed full of events and fundraisers for the Miracle Network kids. Jacey Feyereisen, a member of Dakotathon and in the nursing program said Dakotathon’s main focus for the semester is the health and safety of the miracle kids. […]
SGA passes appeals, approves Senate Bill 01
As the budget season continues, the Student Government Association saw two financial appeals from large student organizations. The body also discussed and passed Senate Bill 1, which has seen multiple amendments since its introduction. Dakotathon, which was denied large organization status at last week’s meeting, appealed to SGA to regain its past large organization status. […]
Dakotathon combines with State-A-Thon for first-ever virtual dance marathon
Dakotathon and State-A-Thon put aside the USD and SDSU rivalry to combine fundraising forces for this year’s virtual dance marathon. Together as South Dakota Dance Marathon, they raised $242,605.20 for Children’s Miracle Network. The virtual dance marathon took place on Facebook and featured videos from miracle families and dances performed throughout the day. The event […]