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Meet your 2026–2027 Student Philanthropy Council Executive Board! 🐯💜

We’re so excited for another year of giving back, building connections, and creating a lasting impact across the LSU community. This team is ready to lead, serve, and make this year one to remember!

We can’t wait to share everything SPC has planned for the year ahead.

Hi y’all! My name is Cate Emma and I have the absolute honor and privilege to serve as SPC’s President! I am a senior majoring in International Management and minor in Spanish.

I am so excited for everyone planning on applying for SPC! My experience in SPC has given me so much and I’m so grateful for it changing my LSU experience for the better!

Coming to college can be such a big transition filled with excitement, uncertainty, and so many unknowns.
While I can’t promise you’ll have all the answers right away, I can tell you this, finding an organization to help call LSU home can make all the difference. I am so lucky that SPC that became place for me so early in my freshman year.

I still don’t know how I got so lucky to lead such an incredible group of people, but I am so grateful they put their trust in me! There is truly no place I’d rather be!!!💜🤍

Hey everyone! My name is Caroline Fernandez, and I’m a senior majoring in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Criminology. I’m beyond excited and incredibly honored to serve as Vice President this year! I can’t wait to meet everyone and see all that we accomplish together this year. See you all soon!

What’s up y’all! My name is Sydney Mitchell, and I am classified as a junior majoring in Finance with a minor in Real Estate Design,Construction, and Development. I am blessed and eager to serve as the Director of Fundraising. I am excited to raise awareness to SPC and create fun and creative fundraising and volunteer initiatives that all of our present and future members can be apart of. Excited to meet everyone and create everlasting memories!!

Hey everyone! My name is Emma Sipes, and I’m a senior majoring in Kinesiology on the Pre-Med track. I’m so excited to serve as the Director of Public Relations for LSU’s Student Philanthropy Council this year! 💜💛
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Fall applications are officially OPEN! 🐯✨

Ready to make a difference on campus and in the community? Join an organization built around service, philanthropy, leadership, and lasting impact. From volunteering and community initiatives to meaningful events and opportunities to give back, there’s a place for you here.

This is YOUR moment to step up, get involved, and be part of a legacy of leadership, service, and Tiger pride!

Apply now through the link in our bio or on TigerLink.

📅 Applications close September 10, 2026.

What SPC has been up to all summer!!!

That’s a wrap! 💫

Last Monday, we closed out the 2025–2026 year with our annual Banquet ceremony, honoring those who fulfilled their active membership requirements and recognizing our superlative winners, who were nominated and voted on by their fellow SPC members.✨

SPC Member of the Year: Emma Sipes
First-Year Leadership Initiative Member of the Year: Annie Leotta

Best Communications Member: Madison Finch
Best Fundraising Member: Victoria Hernandez
Best Public Relations Member: Emma Sipes
Best Service & Special Events Member: Gabreyela Gonzalez

Best Dressed: Jaylen West
Most Dependable: Avery McLaughlin
Most Likely to Brighten Your Day: Nathali Reyes
Best Dynamic Duo: Cate Emma Warren + Avery McLaughlin

We are endlessly thankful for our members, whose passion for service, philanthropy, and community continues to shape SPC into what it is. This organization would not exist without the dedication, heart, and spirit of its members.

Here’s to another incredible year! 💜🐯

Spring Recap! 🌼✨

Time sure flies when you’re having fun! We’re so proud of the effort and dedication shown by our members and executive team this semester.

Spring 2026 Highlights include:
🎉January Recruitment with 27 new members
📆4 General Body Meetings and 3 FLI meetings
📣Guest Speakers from the LSU Foundation
📋3 tabling events
💰$1000 raised on Giving Day for the LSU Food Pantry
📚1000+ items raised for the Global Community Center Swap Shop during Geaux Big Baton Rouge
👥Collaboration with Student Government
🍎Custodian Appreciation Week
📘Changing the Outlook Math Tutoring
🤝Collaboration with LSU Ambassadors
🏆Tiger Excellence Awards
🗳️Officer Elections

2026 Tiger Excellence Awards! 🐅

This year SPC was honored to be awarded:
🌟Gold Organization
🏆Collaboration Event of the Year - 1000 in 10: SPC Combatting Student Food Insecurity

Out of 400+ student organizations at LSU, we are incredibly honored to be recognized as one of four organizations to receive Gold Organization status. This honor is bestowed upon organizations with exemplary service and operations that have hosted 16+ notable programs in areas such as service, tabling, leadership, collaboration, social, and education. 💫

Thank you to Campus Life and everyone who voted for us for Collaboration Event of the Year! Our event, “1000 in 10: SPC Combatting Student Food Insecurity,” brought together 22 on-campus organizations to raise more than 3,000 lbs of food for our very own LSU Food Pantry. ✨

We are so proud of what we’ve established, the impact we’ve made, and the community we’ve built through Student Philanthropy Council, and we cannot wait to see what the future holds! 💜💛

Say hello to your newly elected 2026-2027 SPC exec board!! Congratulations to the following members of their new exec positions!! 🎉🎊💫

President: Cate Emma Warren
Vice President: Caroline Fernadez
Director of Communications: Diya Patel
Director of Service and Special Events: Lauren Gillio
Director of Fundraising: Sydney Mitchell
Director of Public Relations: Emma Sipes
Director of First-Year Leadership Initatiative: Olivia Lopez

These amazing young women have displayed and demonstrated leadership and dedication towards philanthropy and serve with the utmost heart and compassion which is every bit of what SPC stands for! Congratulations and we are so excited to see what this team brings to our organization!🐅👏

With that being said, we also want to bid a bittersweet farewell to our outgoing officers who have served our organization this past year and have accomplished so much during their year on exec! We wish you well in all your future endeavors and know that we greatly appreciate how much time and effort you have put into making our lsu community flourished! Your impact here has been greatly appreciated and we know you left your mark on our organization, its members and as well as on lsu!💜💛

We can’t wait to see how this next chapter of SPC unfolds so here is to brand new beginnings, a year of learning and growth and as well as continuous personal and leadership development within our communities! Geaux Tigers!!🐯

Vote SPC for this year’s Tiger Excellence Awards!

We’ve been nominated for Collaboration Event of the Year for our fall service initiative, “1000 in 10: SPC Combatting Student Food Insecurity.” Our initiative brought 22 on-campus organizations together to raise awareness about food insecurity on college campuses and raised over 3000 lbs of food for our very own LSU Food Pantry! 💛💜

The Tiger Excellence Awards celebrate and recognize the hard work, dedication, and impact organizations like SPC have had on LSU this year. 🏆✨

The link to vote through Tigerlink is in our bio and was also sent to your email Thursday afternoon. Voting closes Monday at midnight. 🗳️