IU Smashes Fundraising Goal With Nearly $4B in Donations
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana University is celebrating the completion of a five-year fundraising campaign that resulted in nearly $3.9 billion in donations.
The For All: The Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign represented the largest campaign goal in the history of the university.
IU launch the campaign in September 2015 with a goal of $2.5 billion to be raised by IU’s Bicentennial in 2020. The university says the target was quickly reached, and in fall 2017, the goal was raised to $3 billion.
“The Bicentennial Campaign has galvanized hundreds of thousands of IU supporters,” said IU President Michael McRobbie. “We owe our deepest gratitude to the unwavering generosity, dedication and loyalty of the more than 320,000 IU alumni and friends who contributed to this campaign. The enormous impact of your generosity, which has touched so many lives, will endure through the next century.”
IU says the system-wide philanthropic campaign has resulted in more than 5,800 undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.
The school says the campaign also allowed it to endow 235 professorial positions.
“It has generated support for our most outstanding faculty. And it has offered the promise of an affordable education to some of the state’s and the country’s very best students,” said McRobbie. “It has helped to ensure the future success of a number of IU schools that now bear the names of their supporters.”
IU says of all university campaigns completed in the past 10 years, IU’s is the 12th largest overall and the third largest among public universities.