University of Florida raises nearly $5 billion in ‘Go Greater’ campaign
The University of Florida (UF) announced that it raised $4.6 billion through its ‘Go Greater’ campaign, an eight-year-long fundraising effort to raise funds for university research, faculty positions, and scholarship programs.
The university reports that nearly 3,000 donors spanning each Florida county and all 50 states contributed to the campaign, pushing its total endowment to $2.4 billion, a $1.1 billion increase from 2014. The total marks the most successful public education fundraising effort in Florida to date.
UF states that through the funding, it was able to facilitate a variety of research contributions across a wide range of subject areas including neuroscience, early education, a...
