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SFU kicks off a $125-million fundraising campaign.
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December 2, 2004
SFU takes its $125-million fundraising campaign to a new level tonight. TheReaching New Heights campaign officially launches at a celebratory event in downtown Vancouver tonight. The drive will attract funding to strengthen the university's research capacity, to enhance recruitment of internationally prominent faculty and top students, and to build new facilities.
The campaign will contribute to capital projects such as a new home for the school for contemporary arts, the new Segal graduate school of business, improved athletic and recreation facilities, new space for the university's art collection and a multi-faith centre on the Burnaby campus.
Raising funds for endowments will be a big part of the campaign. Endowed chairs and professorships will help attract outstanding faculty to lead advances in research and program development. Endowed student awards will help attract the brightest and best students and enhance student financial assistance.
“The campaign has been in its quiet phase since December 2000 and we are already at $80 million,” says Cathy Daminato, SFU's vice president, advancement, who expects to meet the goal by December 2006.
Some key gifts to date include the donation by chancellor emeritus Joe Segal of the building that will house the new graduate school of business, and matching funds from the provincial government to help complete its renovation.
Brandt Louie, chair of the SFU board of governors, president of H.Y. Louie Co. and chairman and chief executive officer of London Drugs, is chairing the campaign. Among the volunteers assisting Louie are chancellor Milton Wong, chair of the school for the contemporary arts campaign, and Vancouver businessman Don Rix, who chairs the Segal graduate school of business campaign.
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The campaign will contribute to capital projects such as a new home for the school for contemporary arts, the new Segal graduate school of business, improved athletic and recreation facilities, new space for the university's art collection and a multi-faith centre on the Burnaby campus.
Raising funds for endowments will be a big part of the campaign. Endowed chairs and professorships will help attract outstanding faculty to lead advances in research and program development. Endowed student awards will help attract the brightest and best students and enhance student financial assistance.
“The campaign has been in its quiet phase since December 2000 and we are already at $80 million,” says Cathy Daminato, SFU's vice president, advancement, who expects to meet the goal by December 2006.
Some key gifts to date include the donation by chancellor emeritus Joe Segal of the building that will house the new graduate school of business, and matching funds from the provincial government to help complete its renovation.
Brandt Louie, chair of the SFU board of governors, president of H.Y. Louie Co. and chairman and chief executive officer of London Drugs, is chairing the campaign. Among the volunteers assisting Louie are chancellor Milton Wong, chair of the school for the contemporary arts campaign, and Vancouver businessman Don Rix, who chairs the Segal graduate school of business campaign.
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