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correct answer is D! Mizzou and its supporters have raised more
than $800 million since 2000 when the For All We Call campaign
began.
Campaign Raises
$123.9 Million in Past Year
and $804.56 Million to Date
By Mary Jo Banken
Donors to the University of Missouri-Columbia's
$1 billion campaign gave $123,943,437 in fiscal year 2007, or
more than $10 million per month, making this fiscal year the third
most productive year since the For
All We Call Mizzou campaign began in 2000. According to MU
Vice Chancellor for Development David Housh, the campaign is on
target to reach its $1 billion target by spring 2009. The cost
of raising a dollar in FY07 fell to 10.5 cents.
“I am very proud of the development
staff members who reached this milestone on a tight budget,”
Housh said. “They worked hard to personally contact alumni
who previously had not given to the University, and as a result,
MU's undergraduate alumni donor participation rate is at an all-time
high.”
According to U.S. News and World Report
magazine, the national average alumni donor participation
rate for public universities is 11 percent, and for private institutions,
it is 17.5 percent. This year, MU's alumni donation rate rose
to 17 percent, placing MU among private institutions for the rate
of alumni giving.
“We greatly appreciate the loyalty and
dedication of our alumni who so generously give of their time
and resources to support MU,” Chancellor Brady Deaton said.
“Especially during this critical time when we are competing
with the best universities in the nation, it is gratifying to
see that our alumni are giving above the rate for other public
institutions and more equivalent to the rate for private institutions.
Our staff and alumni association have worked closely to make this
possible. We are deeply indebted to our generous alumni who help
us maintain the quality of our education as we move through very
critical times of a tight budget environment.”
Donations to the campaign are used to support
students, faculty, facilities and programs. Ninety-eight percent
of the donations are project-specific in that donors specify how
their donations will be used. To date, 76 endowed faculty positions
and more than 650 scholarships have been created from donor gifts
during the campaign.
Gifts to the campaign have supported the
following areas:
Facilities — $118.32 million
Faculty — $64.26 million
Private Grants — $185.43 million
Programs — $263.59 million
Students — $172.95 million
Some highlights of this year's campaign are
a record $2.8 million donated or pledged to MU
libraries, including Ellis Library and the eight branches,
and a record of more than $52 million — the highest annual
total in MU's history — in gifts and grants from corporations,
associations and foundations, including these awards:
- A $1 million grant from the Jack Kent Cooke
Foundation to launch a College Access Corps program for Missouri
high school and community college students;
- A $700,000 grant from the Wallace Coulter
Foundation to support the building of prototype
devices to aid in the detection and treatment of cancer and
autism;
- A $1.3 million grant from the Missouri
Foundation for Health to encourage improved self-management
of diabetes through the University's extension program, physicians,
community partners and patients;
- And a $1 million award from Pfizer and
Pfizer Animal Health to the College of Veterinary Medicine and
College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources to study
postpartum dairy cows and arthritis in dogs and humans.
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