First Mizzou Giving Day attracted over 3,000 donors and $8 million in donations

The Maneater: Latest Stories The various schools, colleges and other areas at MU raised $8,295,842 from 3,590 donors on Wednesday and Thursday during the first annual Mizzou Giving Day. The campus-wide initiative was a part of the Mizzou: Our Time to Lead campaign, which hopes to raise $1.3 billion by June 2020. Before Mizzou Giving Day, the campaign had raised around $850 million since 2015, Vice Chancellor for Advancement Tom Hiles said.
The campaign is a response to decreasing state support for MU.
“Over the last couple of decades there’s been a real erosion of state support for state public institutions, and it doesn’t matter what state you’re in; you pretty much have that news story happening,” said Todd McCubbin, Executive Director of the MU Alumni Association. “As that’s occurred, tuition and fees have become a bigger part of our budget here at Mizzou. But also private fundraising has become a bigger part of what we do at Mizzou to help support the university.”
The fundraiser allowed participants to choose which area of the university they wanted their donations to go to. As such, distribution of the money raised during the event is not equal.
The College of Veterinary Medicine received over $2 million, the largest amount received by any area on campus. The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, the College of Engineering and the College of Education also raised over $1 million each.
“There are areas that are more interesting probably for donors in general, but really the effort is to highlight giving to Mizzou,” Hiles said. “We have a laundry list of things that different donors might have an interest in that end up helping Mizzou and helping advance society as well.”
Student Affairs received $119,925 from 733 donors, by far the largest number of donors supporting any area on campus. The School of Journalism had the next largest number of donors, 283, who contributed a total ...


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