Penn State Mont Alto recently celebrated the generosity and philanthropy of those who help make students’ dreams come true during its 19th annual Donor Appreciation Celebration on Oct. 17. The event brought scholarship recipients together with donors for an evening.
For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students, a seven-year, University-wide fundraising effort that concluded in June, raised $48.9 million for the college – more than any Penn State campus outside of University Park. That support, which took the form of cash, pledges, estate commitments and software gifts, exceeded the original goal by nearly $17 million.
Penn State Brandywine successfully surpassed its goal of $6 million by raising more than $6.8 million to complete its second major capital fundraising campaign, “For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students.”
The most significant fundraising effort in Penn State’s history, For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students, has generated $13.283 million in support for Penn State DuBois, surpassing the $12 million campus goal. For all of Penn State, the total came in at $2.188 billion in private support. Penn State is one of only 12 public universities in the nation to have ever exceeded a $2 billion campaign goal, receiving support from 176,000 alumni, the most alumni donors to any campaign in the country.
The College of Communications exceeded its $15 million goal during the University's just-compledted fundraising campaign.
Well, maybe a little less than 10 million...but the Penn State Abington campus community voices its heartfelt gratitude anyway to the donors who helped the college exceed its For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students goal of $10 million.
A $1 million gift from William B. and Wendy Korb will create three early career professorships in industrial engineering at Penn State.
In celebration of the closing of the For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students, administrators, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Penn State Schuylkill gathered at the Schuylkill Country Club, Orwigsburg, Pa.
Members of the volunteer campaign committee and University staff at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, recently celebrated the successful completion of For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students with a dinner at Nemacolin Woodlands.
For Cierra Freeman, a 2012 graduate of Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the College of Agricultural Sciences, her Penn State education enabled her to rise above the challenges of the foster care system and “grow larger than the world’s expectations.” Joshua Buitrago, a junior at the College of IST, was born to immigrant parents who instilled in him the value of education. While he was initially worried about the financial stress of getting through four years of college, a number of scholarships and grants have eased his family’s burden and enabled him to fulfill his potential.
Industrial engineering alumnus Greg Lucier and his wife Marilena have made a gift commitment of up to $2 million to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial Engineering at Penn State.
Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics has raised $350,761,353 during the seven-year For the Future campaign, which will officially close on June 30, 2014.
Alumni and friends of the Penn State Smeal College of Business gathered at the Business Building on April 11 to celebrate the impact of philanthropy on students and faculty. The college’s annual Leaders Celebration acknowledges the outstanding generosity of donors who provide student scholarships, enhance physical resources and technology, support faculty research and more.
The most significant fundraising effort in Penn State’s history, For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students has surpassed its goal, raising $2.158 billion in private support. Penn State is one of only 12 public universities in the nation to have exceeded a $2 billion campaign goal, receiving support from 167,500 alumni, believed to be the most alumni donors to any campaign in the country.
While most of his high school freshmen peers were settling into their new surroundings, Alex Han and his family were packing up their lives and moving a continent away. Giving up successful careers in South Korea, Alex’s parents moved everything to the Philadelphia suburbs to give their son a chance at a U.S. college education—their American dream.
