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Recent Highlights and Philanthropic Trends

Fund raising results for FY05

Cash: $99,376,620

New Commitments: $124,616,673

Annual Fund: FY05 (dollars included in totals above)

  • $21 million raised in Annual Fund, a record year and up more than 6 percent from FY04
  • 38, 472 individual donors
  • 61 percent alumni donors, 22 percent friend, 11 percent parents, 6 percent corporation and foundation [pie chart for this]
  • 33 percent main campus alumni participation in the Annual Fund
  • 21 percent law participation
  • 29 percent medical participation
  • Raised $750,000 in online giving.

Overall Trends

  • Successfully completed a historic $1 billion dollar campaign in December 2003
  • Met a prestigious $2 million Kresge Challenge by raising more than $50 million for undergraduate living and learning space in 2003
  • Membership in the Blue and Gray Society, which recognizes those who give $10,000 or more, annually, from 787 in FY96 to 1900 in FY05
  • Expanded the Legacy Society—individuals who have made a provision for Georgetown in their estate plans—from 184 members in FY96 to 650 members in FY05
  • Grew its leadership society of million dollar donors, the 1789 Society, from 133 charter members in 1997 to more than 225 in 2005
  • $7.5 million renovation of Alumni House completed October 2005.
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