Cultivate a culture of private giving to accelerate University growth in academic, athletic and research endeavors.
Undertake largest private capital campaign by a public university in New England.
Ensure broad-based participation in fundraising programs.
Multiply impact of private gifts to endowment through extension of the Connecticut law that created the publicly funded endowment matching gift program.
Utilize private gifts to stimulate growth and advancement in targeted areas of University life.
Charge UConn Foundation with raising $300 million by June 2004. Seventy-five million dollars each to support scholarships and faculty. One hundred and fifty million dollars for program enhancements.
Initiate development activities aimed at increasing the number of private gifts and the percentage of alumni making financial contributions to the University.
Acquire legislative commitment to continue a successful endowment matching gift program.
Align fundraising goals with University priorities.
At the close of fiscal year 2003, more than $252 million, 84% of goal, had been raised. During the year, the University received an impressive $49.7 million in gifts and commitments. Since 1995, the University's endowment has grown from $50 million to nearly $210 million.
In 2003, a new record high of 38,483 donors made financial gifts to the University, a 9% increase over the previous record high established in 2002.
Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland and the General Assembly extended an endowment matching gift program that will provide an additional $115 million in state support through 2012.
Since Campaign UConn began, private support has created 340 new endowments. Forty-eight endowments were established in 2003. Growth in the number of endowed chairs has been one of Campaign UConn's most notable achievements. Newly established chairs include the GE Capital Professor of Business and the Robert Cizik Chair in Manufacturing and Technology Management, the Lockean Distinguished Chair in Mental Health Education, the Janice and Rodney Reynolds Chair in Neurobiology, the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Chair in Academic Medicine, and the Marianne E. Klewin Endowed Professorship in Engineering..