<p>On September 15 the University of Southern California will launch a $6 billion fundraising initiative. It was announced today in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Highlights will include raising the endowment, more research facilities, continuing the long standing community service programs, a new social sciences building, on campus housing for graduate students, adding to the residential colleges and completing the University Village adjacent to the campus.</p>
<p>The complete article can be accessed on the USC website: University</a> of Southern California .</p>
<p>What’s the deadline they want to raise $6 billion? All I see is “multi-year”?
I’m sure this starts the public phase of the campaign and the “quiet phase” included their not so quiet college naming opportunities.</p>
<p>UCB, they want to reach or supass the goal by 2018.</p>
<p>[USC</a> to pursue record-breaking donation total - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-usc-funds-20110828,0,7660686.story]USC”>USC to seek record-breaking donation total)</p>
<p>USC received $426 million in donations for the 2010 year. The university was fourth in the nation for fundraising.</p>
<p>Dr. Nikias announced the University of Southern California had donations of $1.2 billion in the last twelve months.</p>
<p>It is the start of a new year. The amount I read is now at $1.4 billion.</p>
<p>It appears that large donations have slowed down dramatically. I do see some smaller $3-10 million gifts. While the lofty $6 billion goal is quite ambitious, I am concern that if USC cannot hit this target, it will reflect negatively on the university.</p>
<p>I am worried about that as well, Silicon. However I know that there are currently projects that are being in the finalization stage - USC Village, new Marshall School, renovation of Hertiage Hall and Coliseum - but stil,l Nikias does need to maintaine or increase the pace that he started with.</p>
<p>Sorry for the errors - I just woke up.</p>
<p>Defense,</p>
<p>Keep in mind SC has until 2018 to make the goal of $6 billion. My guess is the university is not too far from $2 billion with six more years to go. Gifts I recall of $6 million for a stroke clinic, $8 million for a new aquatics center, $10 million for USC libraries, $4 million for a chair of real estate in the Price school, $1 million for undergraduate research at Dornsife, anonymous gift to Keck of $13.3 million, Pullias gift to Rossier of $5 million and $3.2 million for a new chair in Hindu studies do add up to a substantial sum. </p>
<p>As I wrote in another post there are support groups in some of the schools that donate large amounts to the university. One group at Marshall consists of donors who give a minimum of $150,000 per year. </p>
<p>The campaign is still in the early stage. Sometimes it can take months of negotiations to receive an enormous donation. There is still a long time left to achieve the goal.</p>
<p>I wish I could have 0.01% of that.</p>
<p>What is this figure at these days? USC has receive a few major, albeit undisclosed, gifts (business & dance) recently and I am curious if anyone has any idea about our fund raising progress.</p>
<p>$2.22 billion. See campaign.usc.edu</p>
<p>The endowment has to be over 4 billion by now.</p>
<p>We’ll get there my fellow Trojans, have patience. The focus should be on the wealthy parents of USC students and alumni…</p>
<p>The Campaign for USC has reached another milestone. It was announced the Campaign is now at $2.53 billion. The number of participants so far in the campaign is at 193,920. </p>
<p>Recent gifts have been $1 million to the School of Architecture, an anonymous donation of $1 million to the School of Social Work and a $600,000 donation to the Gill Kidney Cancer Research Program by the Miller Family Foundation.</p>
<p>Other gifts include a gift of $1.5 million from Daniel Tsai to the USC School of Pharmacy and a donation of $1 million to the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies. That gift is from an anonymous donor.</p>
<p>The Booth Foundation donated $5 million to the USC Athletic Deparment to support the department’s community service program.</p>
<p>The campaign is now at $2.77 billion. That amount includes pledges, value of library donations as well as cash donations. Donors now total 203,619.</p>
<p>Recent donations include:
Bryan Singer----$5 Million
Anthony Marnell----$1 Million
Hans Hufschmid----$3 Million
Anonymous Alumnus----$1 Million
Ken Klein—$1 Million—Donated $8 million previously to Viterbi School of Engineering
Booth Foundation----$5 Million
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine—$70 Million
Utengsu Family----$8 Million</p>
<p>The Dance Center will have their groundbreaking soon and then the corporate sponsor for the coliseum will be announced too. </p>
<p>Trojans just wait till this year when the announcements of donations for the Village at USC.</p>
<p>Bien-Air USC has donated dental equipment to the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry. This includes the most modern devices available.</p>