UA Fund Raising Ahead of Schedule
by February 4, 2002 12:00 am 63 views
Fund raising is up about 25 percent for the first half of the fiscal year at the University of Arkansas, said Laura Jacobs, manager of development communications for the UA.
From July 1 to Dec. 31, the UA raised $21 million compared with $16.7 million for the same period last year. The total accounts for receipts only and does not include pledges.
The UA has raised $295.4 million in gifts and pledges from July 1, 1998, to Dec. 31, 2001. That amount accounts for 59 percent of the goal of $500 million for the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, which is scheduled to conclude on June 30, 2004.
Other gifts included in the total are:
• The Tyson Family Foundation’s gift of $500,000 to the Randal Tyson Memorial Scholarship Endowment in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
• A gift of $525,000 by John and Pat Cooper of Bella Vista to the John A. Cooper Sr. Distinguished Chair of Diplomatic History in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
• A $430,000 bequest by Nelda Wolf Richter to the College of Education and Health Professions to establish nursing scholarships for students enrolled in the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing.
• A grant to the UA Community Design Center, a division of the School of Architecture, for $346,000 from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation to fund operations and to help “rejuvenate historic downtown areas” in the Delta cities of Helena, Marianna, Marvell and Clarendon, Jacobs said.
• A $3 million gift from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation of Springdale that will help the UA build a new Student Health Center.