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Wehrbein Honored With University's CORE Award

Wehrbein Honored With University's CORE Award

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  • Nancy Wehrbein has been recognized with the university's CORE Award
    Nancy Wehrbein has been recognized with the university's CORE Award for her work in writing grants that have positioned NWU to receive national recognition.
  • Nancy Wehrbein has been recognized with the university's CORE Award
    Nancy Wehrbein has been recognized with the university's CORE Award for her work in writing grants that have positioned NWU to receive national recognition.

Congratulations to Nancy Wehrbein, director of sponsored programs and foundation relations, who was awarded the university’s CORE Award on March 13.

The CORE Award recognizes a staff member whose efforts and contributions significantly exceed expectations in demonstrating or promoting Nebraska Wesleyan’s core values: excellence, liberal arts, personal attention to students, diversity, community, and stewardship.

The project to raise funds for a new science center started in June of 2012. Since that time, the university has received over 150 gifts to fund the science center. It has been a team effort. Yet, we want to honor one person whose work has stood out.

Nancy Wehrbein’s work over the past 5 years has had a significant and positive impact on the current construction of a new science center.

Nancy’s colleagues said:

  • Succinctly put, Nancy is meticulous in preparing proposals, presents NWU’s excellence artfully and exactly, and uncovers little-known facts and assembles compelling stories about lives changed by an education at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
  • It is her passion for student learning and for the liberal arts that makes her grant writing so compelling.
  • Nancy is a dedicated steward of NWU’s dollars.  She writes the grant budgets down to the penny and then manages the budgets right down to the penny. 
  • She performs always at the highest level of expertise and with excellence. 
  • I have known Nancy for nearly 30 years. I would sum up her interest in helping everyone at Nebraska Wesleyan with the following two words: fiercely passionate.
  • I appreciate her desire to see others succeed and her genuine desire to provide NWU with recognition and resources. 
  • Nancy has a talent for taking volumes of information and condensing it into persuasive support for NWU. 
  • It is apparent to all who work with her that Nancy invests herself completely in ensuring that her deliverables are of the highest standard. 
  • She works diligently (at all hours) to ensure that facts are accurate, her responses are thorough, NWU and its interests are well represented and timelines are met. 
  • I rarely see a professional work under more pressure with higher stakes and Nancy does it all while being calm, collegial and with a beautiful smile on her face.  
  • Nancy has been the architect of a number of grants that have significantly elevated Nebraska Wesleyan and brought us ever closer to national recognition.
  •  Nancy’s reputation for excellence in grant writing with regional and national universities and foundations has positioned NWU to receive national recognition with the awarding of six-figure grants and seven-figure gifts; a least four $1 million dollar gifts, one NFS grant at $650,000 and several $100,000 grants from local and regional foundations in support of our science program. 
  • Nancy, you are a master at completing outstanding projects with exceptional results.

 

Given Nancy Wehrbein’ s significant role and performance in support of NWU’s new science center, we are happy and proud to present to Nancy the CORE Award.