Goshen College announces major fundraising campaign
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In 2021, Goshen College embarked on a major new fundraising campaign dubbed Connected Cause.
The goal was to raise $68 million to support a range of core programs like scholarships, nursing and facilities upgrades. For the past few years until this month, the college kept the fundraising campaign under wraps, quietly seeking donations.
But now Goshen College is celebrating the initiative and recently announced it has secured $60 million in pledges towards its goal.
“We have been quietly fundraising for this campaign over the past three years and I am grateful for the amazing generosity of our many supporters,” Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus said in a written statement. “We are now excited to announce Connected Cause publicly and invite all of our alumni, friends and community members to join us over the next two years to ensure excellence in the classroom, a greater transformative presence in our community, and a beautiful, inviting and inclusive campus for generations of students to come.”
On its website, Goshen College lays out seven priorities for the campaign, with the largest chunk—$19 million—allocated to facilities repairs and improvements. After that, the college plans to spend over $13 million to build a new nursing and public health facility.
This comes after the college spent close to $20 million in the last two years to renovate Westlawn Hall to include space for its nursing program.
Close to 10% of Goshen College’s 800 undergraduate students are in the nursing program, and university leaders have said training a pipeline of nurses for the local community is a key goal.
Other goals of the Connected Cause campaign include $12 million for student scholarships, $12.5 million for a general fund, $5 million for local and global engagement initiatives, and $3 million each toward athletics and academic support.
The college says it plans to raise the remaining $8 million by 2026.