Progress - Inspire Innovation - Carnegie Mellon University

Campaign Progress as of April 1, 2013

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Carnegie Mellon University has crossed the $1 billion milestone of our Inspire Innovation campaign. But we are not done yet. Thanks to the support of our alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends, we are experiencing the amazing impact the campaign has generated across the entire university.




Total raised to date $1.16 billion
Endowed $567.2 million
Number of contributions 227,170 gifts from 48,372 donors
Campaign publicly launched October 2008
Campaign close date
June 30, 2013


Core Campaign Goals


(dollars in millions)
Supporting a New Generation of Student Innovators $193.5
New endowed scholarships 222
Scholarship funding $96.2
New endowed fellowships 91
Fellowship funding $76.7
spacerStudent programs (athletics, student groups, student life, Greek life, prizes and awards) $20.7

Retaining and Enhancing Faculty $384.1
New endowed professorships 29
Professorship funding $100.0
Faculty research funding $284.2

Sustaining CMU's Foundation of Excellence $431.7

Enhancing an Innovative Environment $87.9
Construction of the Gates and Hillman Centers $41.0
spacerOther renovations (academic buildings, labs, fitness, campus beautification) $46.9

Undesignated $66.6


Noteworthy:

Two donors provided naming gifts for colleges during Inspire Innovation:
  • David A. Tepper School of Business
  • Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Donor support enabled the transformation of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management to the H. John Heinz III College