St. Mary’s University surpassed it’s largest-ever campaign fundraising goal of $150...
St. Mary’s University reflects on surpassing its largest fundraising goal ever — with $165 million raised. It’s an achievement made possible by gratitude.On Friday, St. Mary’s University celebrated a successful end to our Defining Moment Comprehensive Campaign — a fundraising campaign 10 times greater than any prior St. Mary’s campaign and larger than all the previous campaigns combined.
The Big Reveal, announced in a screen slide, was a $130 million comprehensive campaign titled “The Defining Moment.” The immediate reaction among those gathered was silence — polite silence, because the attendees had been served scrumptious food and abundant drink — but no clapping, no cheers, just silence. Looking back, I have no doubt that the dominant emotion among the 500 guests was stunned disbelief because nothing of this magnitude had ever before been attempted by St. Mary’s.
And so it began, the four-year public phase of the campaign. Two years later, in November 2019, having surpassed the $130 million goal, we raised the stakes to $150 million. With the campaign’s end this past New Year’s Eve, we achieved a defining moment for St. Mary’s University, $165 million of heartfelt generosity from alumni and friends.
First and foremost, it’s about gratitude. Gratitude to the Marianists for establishing St. Mary’s with their charism of faith, service, family spirit and community, and embedding it for these many decades within the fabric of the university. Sally Scholz, one of our benefactors, described why she and her late husband, Charles , shared their treasure: “If it had not been for the brothers of St. Mary’s, Charles would have never had any hope of finishing school at all.
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