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SOURCE: giving.GMU.edu, 2016-03-31
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Less than a year after the public launch of the $500 million Faster Farther campaign, George Mason University has already received the largest gift in its history: an anonymous donor’s landmark gift of $20 million, joined by $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation, to rename the School of Law and vastly expand its opportunities for students of high promise.
Even for George Mason University, the speed and strength of the campaign have been astonishing. The $30 million follows a $10 million donation from the Peterson Family Foundation last summer, offering scholarship funding to students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and helping to build a new home for the College of Health and Human Services.
Many factors have led to success up to this point. They include volunteer leadership and loyal alumni dedicated to sharing the George Mason University story with new friends. The university’s recognition for pathbreaking research and a track record of success in creating engaged global citizens is certainly part of the mixture. Outstanding faculty in the public eye and new facilities for performance and learning, across all three campuses, are also making it clear that George Mason University is on the move.
Gifts made in the campaign’s public phase are validating what regional leaders have long said: that George Mason University is both a magnet and a magnifier for investment and ideas. With its place of growing prominence in the regional economy, George Mason University has always provided a strong return. The Faster Farther campaign provides an additional multiplier effect, helping large new gifts inspire even greater philanthropy. In a political climate where state support for higher education is on the wane, the increasing influx of private dollars could not come at a more opportune time. The campaign offers alumni, friends, institutional donors, and other stakeholders a powerful new way to build on a diversity of established strengths that, together, will help advance the common good.
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