how much do alumni actually contribute to the annual fund raising haul for a university?
Stanford has one of the worst alumni giving rates… and yet is year in and year out the top fund raising university in the US… despite not even being in a fund raising capital campaign (as is Harvard and USC).
so not sure alumni giving really makes a big difference and ascribing any noted decrease to activism seems like a stretch. maybe it’s school specific but activism is found on every university campus.
top fund raising universities 2015
- Stanford University ($1.63 billion)
- Harvard University ($1.05 billion)
- University of Southern California ($653.03 million)
- University of California-San Francisco ($608.58 million)
- Cornell University ($590.64 million)
- Johns Hopkins University ($582.68 million)
- Columbia University ($552.68 million)
- Princeton University ($549.84 million)
- Northwestern University ($536.83 million)
- University of Pennsylvania ($517.20 million)
- University of California-Los Angeles ($473.21)