Strong Fundraising Finish in FY18

We wanted to take a moment to share a heartfelt thank you!

Your scholarship gifts keep our doors open to talented, hard-working students from all economic backgrounds. You ensure faculty have the resources they need to produce new knowledge and partner with communities to tackle our biggest challenges. You make it possible for graduate students to push the boundaries of their disciplines and mentor our undergraduate students. You are ensuring CLA’s future for the next 150 years.

Key statistics

To date, we’ve raised $106.8 million during this campaign to support students, advance research, and build more vibrant and inclusive communities.

About our donors

• 17,353 total donors to CLA’s Shattering Expectations campaign

  • 13,822 alumni donors, including faculty and staff who are alumni

  • 656 faculty and staff donors, including faculty and staff who are alumni

  • 3,531 companies, foundations, and non-alumni donors

What their gifts have produced

• 36 new graduate fellowship funds
   
• 60 new funds for endowed chairs and professorships, faculty research, and community engagement
   
• 109 new funds for undergraduate scholarships and student support

Our progress

Since 2012—the start of this campaign—we’ve:

• Doubled the amount of scholarships awarded to students (from $1.9 million distributed in 2010-11 to $4 million in 2017-18)

• Increased scholarship support for internships by 1467% (you read that right!) during our Shattering Expectations campaign, from a scholarship pool of $300,000 in July 2011 to a scholarship pool of $4.7 million in June 2018

Thanks again for your support of CLA’s campaign. We can’t do it without you.