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Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts
The mission of the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine University is to present an innovative, unique, entertaining, and diverse program of exceptional performances and museum exhibitions. We enhance the educational experience at the University for all students, foster artistic excellence and creativity, and connect Pepperdine University and the richly varied communities of Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Now more than ever, we are grateful to be a place of connection and community. This year we're blessed to have 2 matching gifts to support the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts. Rick and Shelley Bayer have graciously donated a $2,500 gift to challenge the community. Mark Mallinger and Arlene Antonoff have continued the good work with a gift of $1,500. We are grateful for your dedication to the arts and commitment to making a difference in the lives of those we serve.
Thank you from the Center for the Arts!
Thank you for your generosity and support of Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts! Your support contributes to the CFA's mission to present an innovative, unique, entertaining, and diverse program of exceptional performances and museum exhibitions.
Why are donations necessary?
Donors like you supply critical funding for all Center for the Arts programming, including the popular ARTSReach program for schools, which provides free performances to schoolchildren. Ticket prices cover only a fraction of the costs of operating the Center for the Arts. Your donation helps us to continue to bring you performances and exhibitions from around the country and around the worldMSOD Director's Excellence Fund
The MSOD Director’s Excellence Fund plays a pivotal role in sustaining and enhancing the world-class quality of the MSOD program. Your contribution directly supports initiatives that keep the program relevant, impactful, and inclusive for current and future students.
Key areas of support include:
Learning Group Consultants (LGCs): These dedicated mentors are essential to the MSOD experience, providing hands-on guidance that shapes students’ learning and professional development. Without sufficient funding, we risk losing the invaluable contributions of LGCs. Your gift helps subsidize their travel and accommodations, ensuring their full participation.
Curriculum Innovation: Contributions to the Excellence Fund empower the program director to integrate cutting-edge research and address critical topics like JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) efforts. Recent enhancements to diversity, equity, and inclusion materials in the curriculum were made possible by gifts like yours.
By supporting the MSOD Director’s Excellence Fund, you ensure the program continues to lead in preparing transformative leaders while addressing the most pressing challenges of today’s organizations.
Join us in sustaining and advancing the excellence of MSOD. Your gift will fuel innovation, enrich mentorship, and develop the leaders of tomorrow.
MSOD Faculty Research Fund
The MSOD Faculty Research Fund fuels the innovative work of our esteemed faculty, advancing the field of Organization Development and strengthening the reputation of our MSOD program. Your support ensures that our faculty have the resources needed to produce groundbreaking research, publish influential studies, and shape best practices in the industry.
Key reasons to give:
Expand Our Reach: Faculty research not only enhances the MSOD program but also raises its profile globally, showcasing our leadership in driving meaningful change in organizations.
Support Our Thought Leaders: By contributing, you empower the faculty who have inspired and shaped MSOD students, enabling them to influence the future of OD through their cutting-edge research.
Shape the Future of Organizations: Faculty publications based on real-world, industry-focused research drive the change we want to see, advancing OD practices and principles worldwide.
Your gift to the MSOD Faculty Research Fund creates opportunities for impactful research that benefits the MSOD community and the broader field of Organization Development.
Join us in championing our faculty and driving innovation. Your gift will shape the future of OD and elevate the legacy of MSOD.
MSOD Founders Scholarship
The MSOD Founders Scholarship is a vital resource, ensuring that financial barriers do not stand in the way of talented individuals pursuing an MSOD education. By providing financial assistance to candidates who might not otherwise afford the program, the scholarship fosters diversity in its broadest sense—enriching the learning experience for all.
Over the years, recipients of the MSOD Founders Scholarship have included African American, Asian, Alaskan Native American, and Latinx students with countries of origin including Costa Rica, Ghana, Mexico, Italy, and China. Their diverse perspectives have not only shaped their journeys but also deepened the collective growth of their classmates and strengthened the “Long Grey Line” of MSOD alumni.
Your donation makes a direct impact:
It ensures that our student population reflects a broad spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, and voices.
It gives aspiring leaders the chance to benefit from the MSOD program and share their unique insights, enriching the experience for everyone.
By giving to the MSOD Founders Scholarship, you help create a program where diversity thrives, access expands, and every student has the opportunity to contribute to the legacy of transformative leadership.
Join us in making MSOD education accessible for all. Your gift will change lives and strengthen our future.
Melinda Parker Adams ’87 Memorial Fund
When Melinda arrived at Pepperdine, she was full of hopes, dreams and plans for a rich life. She participated in campus life, Greek life and the Heidelberg summer program, along with keeping up with her studies. Unfortunately, we lost our sorority sister and friend on February 4, 2025.
When her family requested that in lieu of flowers, friends donate to their favorite charity in her name, we thought it would be an opportunity to focus our donations to Pepperdine in her name to create a small fund to help Seaver College and Heidelberg Students enjoy their time at Pepperdine as much as she did.
Melinda left Pepperdine in 1987 and pursued a life in the insurance industry, ultimately owning her own agency in Napa, California. She was the loving mother of three boys and one grandson. Family and friends have always been the center of Melinda’s life and those of us in her orbit have been blessed with a little bit of extra sunshine. Please feel free to make a donation, of any size, because together we can create a lovely tribute to our friend and help a student or two along the way.
She will be missed by so many, but her friends and loved ones know how lucky we were to be on the receiving end of her gentle spirit, fierce friendship and ever-present smile.
*You'll be able to select if you'd like your gift to go towards Seaver College Scholarships or Heidelberg Scholarships on the following page.
Men's Baseball
Coach LaTorre and Baseball need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals. Additionally, an Anonymous Alumnus has put together $25,000 to match dollar for dollar every gift that comes in TODAY!
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Baseball team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our team to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
What Coach LaTorre has to say:
Help us meet our goal of 80 donors by making a gift of any amount today! Thanks to a generous gift from an Anonymous Alumnus, gifts to Men's Baseball will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!
Men's Basketball
Coach Schilling and Men’s Basketball need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals. Additionally, an Anonymous Alumnus has put together $25,000 to match dollar for dollar every gift that comes in TODAY!
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Basketball team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our team to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
What Coach Schilling has to say:
WAVES GIVE!
Help us meet our goal of 40 donors by making a gift of any amount today! Thanks to a generous gift from an Anonymous Alumnus, gifts to Men's Basketball will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!
Men's Golf
Coach Beard and Men’s Golf need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals. Additionally, an Anonymous Alumnus has put together $25,000 to match dollar for dollar every gift that comes in TODAY!
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Golf team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our teams to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
A message from Coach Beard
WAVES GIVE!
Help us meet our goal of 40 donors by making a gift of any amount today! Thanks to a generous gift from an Anonymous Alumnus, gifts to Men's Golf will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!
Men's Tennis
Coach Schaechterle and Men’s Tennis need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals. Additionally, An Anonymous Alumnus has put together $25,000 to match dollar for dollar every gift that comes in TODAY!
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Tennis team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our team to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
What Coach Schaechterle has to say:
WAVES GIVE!
Help us meet our goal of 40 donors by making a gift of any amount today! Thanks to the generous gift from an Anonymous Alumnus, gifts to Men's Tennis will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!
Men's Volleyball
Coach Winder and Men’s Volleyball need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals.
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Volleyball team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our team to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
What Coach Winder has to say:
WAVES GIVE!
Help us meet our goal of 40 donors by making a gift of any amount today!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!
Men's Water Polo
Coach Moses and Men’s Water Polo need YOU today to help us reach our lofty goals. Additionally, Two Anonymous Supporters put together $50,000 to match dollar for dollar every gift that comes in TODAY!
Donations are applied to...
Gifts to this fund will help our Men's Water Polo team! Whether that's upgraded equipment, enhanced meals, travel opportunities for our team to compete outside of conference, recruiting, we use this money to ensure the success of our student-athletes.
What Coach Moses has to say:
WAVES GIVE!
Help us meet our goal of 110 donors by making a gift of any amount today! Thanks to generous gifts from two Anonymous Supporters, gifts to Men's Water Polo will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000!
WAVES GIVE, our annual athletics day of giving, is here and we need your help to continue to ride the wave of momentum we are currently experiencing. Along the way, our team has the opportunity to unlock prizes for participation, dollars raised, hitting milestones – and, of course, earn bragging rights around the department.
Why are donations necessary?
As Pepperdine and our community have experienced, the past few months have been full of highs and lows alike, yet we have persevered through it all and come out stronger than ever, in large part due to the incredible support from our WAVES community. We need your partnership to continue to elevate Pepperdine Athletics!