Bowling Green State University announced this morning that it raised $255,242,831.88 during its Changing Lives for the World fundraising campaign
The announcement was made during a virtual ceremony livestreamed from University Hall.
The announcement caps a fundraising effort that began in July 2014, and entered its public stage in October 2017.
The initial goal was $200 million.
President Rodney Rogers said that before the campaign started consultants advised that the goal be set at $150 million. The trustees and Foundation Board members opted to aim higher.
And the campaign exceeded even that.
At the public launch of the campaign then president, Mary Ellen Mazey first proposed that the campaign could hit the quarter-billion dollar mark.
The money will be used for facilities, scholarships, named professorships and academic programs.
More than 38,000 donors made a combined total of 160,722 gifts to advance the University during the campaign. More than $166 million of the campaign total came from BGSU alumni; $44.7 million from friends, faculty and staff of the University; $36.7 million from corporations and foundations; and $7.6 million from other organizations.
