WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

MORGANTOWN, WV

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The West Virginia University Foundation is a nonprofit organization located in Morgantown, WV, and serves as the fundraising arm of West Virginia University (WVU). Established in 1954, the foundation's mission is to support the educational, research, and public service activities of WVU through philanthropic contributions.

The foundation manages and invests donations made to WVU by individuals, corporations, and foundations to enhance the university's academic programs, research initiatives, and student scholarships. It also works to engage donors in the life of the university by providing opportunities for them to connect with students, faculty, and staff.

The foundation operates under the leadership of a board of directors who oversee its operations, policies, and financial affairs. It employs a team of development professionals who work with donors to create giving strategies that align with their philanthropic goals.

The foundation has played a vital role in the growth and development of WVU, providing support for new academic programs, building facilities, and supporting research initiatives that benefit the state of West Virginia and beyond. Its continued success is critical to ensuring the future of WVU as a leading institution of higher education.

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in MORGANTOWN WV. US MID #8405400252

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 115,556,332 from tax period 201306 (YYYYMM).

October 18, 2021: Personal Rapid Transit, Morgantown, West Virginia A northbound car passes along the elevated track of the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system between Beechurst and Engineering Stations in Morgantown, West Virginia, as seen from the window of a southbound car on a quiet afternoon. With space for only a few people at a time, these pod-like vehicles traverse an 8.7-mile, five-stop right-of-way that links downtown Morgantown with the outlying Evansdale Campus of West Virginia University. After entering the station and paying the fare (50¢ per trip), PRT commuters press a button corresponding to their destination, and the completely computerized and automated system whisks them there directly without needing to stop at any of the intervening stations along the way. Transit wonks of today generally see it as a retro novelty, but in its day, the PRT was state-of-the-art and widely considered prototypical of the future of public transportation, especially by the U.S. federal government, which by the late 1960s had become keen on the concept as a less expensive alternative to existing subway and light rail systems. In the meantime, Morgantown was experiencing the same growing pains as other college towns across the country - matriculation rates were growing explosively due to a confluence of factors, notably the coming of age of the postwar Baby Boom generation, a sharp increase in federal aid programs for postsecondary students, and the transition of the economy away from manufacturing toward professional positions of the type more likely to require a degree - with the added factor of the city's geography, where outward expansion was rendered physically impossible due to its location in a narrow river valley surrounded by mountains. The constant choking of the local streets with traffic was beginning to cause problems for the shuttle buses that were tasked with ferrying WVU's students between the school's two campuses located on opposite sides of town. Hence, with the help of the influential senator Robert Byrd, professor Samy Elias of WVU's Industrial Engineering Department was successfully able to persuade the U.S. Department of Transportation to use Morgantown as an experimental site for PRT development, and to get a suite of major corporations and entities such as Boeing and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory involved in its development. The system became operational in 1975, and was expanded to its present length four years later with the addition of the Towers and Medical (now Health Sciences) stations. Despite the initial hype, Morgantown's was one of only two PRT systems ever built in the United States, and is today the only one that remains in operation. It serves an average daily ridership of 16,000 during WVU's academic year, but does not run in the summer.

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MID #	8405400252
Name	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Alternate Name	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	556017181
NTEECC	A51
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201306
INCOME	321,433,106
REVENUE	115,556,332
LAT/LONG	39.62769, -79.957656
CODES	FIPS State Code: 54 FIPS County Code: 061 US Census Tract: 010102 US Census Block: 2049