Arizona State University Announces Comprehensive Campaign

TEMPE, AZ – Arizona State University today publicly launched Campaign ASU 2020, an institution-wide resource-raising effort to sustain and build its momentum as a new prototype for higher education that is inclusive and excellent, locally engaged and globally relevant and committed to fundamental solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.

ASU aims to raise at least $1.5 billion in private support for a range of priorities that will shape its future and influence the economic and cultural health of Arizona and beyond. Those priorities fit into six overall fundraising objectives:

• Ensure student access and excellence
• Champion student success
• Elevate the academic enterprise
• Fuel discovery, creativity and innovation
• Enrich our communities
• Drive Sun Devil competitiveness

The University has already secured $1 billion in new gifts and commitments to advance ASU during the Campaign’s pre-launch phase, which began in 2011. These investments were made by more than 260,000 individual alumni and friends of the university. Each gift to ASU during the Campaign counts towards its goal.

“Innovation doesn’t rest,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow. “ASU’s continuing evolution now depends on you. We ask you to invest your financial resources in ASU, yes, but also your ideas and your time.”

Campaign ASU 2020 is the university’s first comprehensive campaign in 14 years and the first during President Crow’s tenure at ASU.

Private support is not intended to replace the university’s other sources of revenue, including state funding, but rather to provide the margin of excellence that enables scholars to enhance their experiences with scholarships, study abroad, state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, research and faculty development, community and arts programs and other services.

In addition to fundraising, the Campaign represents an opportunity to tell story of the impact of private support at ASU while engaging the community in a culture of philanthropy that will accelerate the university’s progress into the next decade.

“This is an exciting time at Arizona State University,” said ASU Foundation CEO R.F. “Rick” Shangraw, Jr. “ASU has demonstrated proof points in what it’s trying do to, and it’s been rewarding to witness the creation of an accessible university that embraces excellence in all it does. Now is the time to launch a campaign that will ensure this ever-rising university continues its upward trajectory, and we’re extremely grateful for donors and investors who are helping to make this journey possible.”

“How do you personally want to make a difference in the lives of students, faculty and citizens for generations to come? These are important questions, and the answers will have far-reaching impact and, ultimately, will determine the course of our destiny,” said Leo Beus, co-founder of Beus Gilbert PLLC, supporter of ASU and a Campaign volunteer principal.

“Campaign ASU 2020 is an opportunity for students’ success stories to be heard. There are so many amazing initiative students are taking on right now and they deserve to be recognized and funded for their achievements,” said Lindsay Zapata ’18, a student in Barrett, The Honors College who is majoring in nonprofit management and leadership.

To learn more about Campaign ASU 2020, please visit giveto.asu.edu.

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ABOUT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Arizona State University developed a new model for the American research university, creating an institution that is committed to excellence, access and impact. ASU measures itself by those it includes, not by those it excludes by pursuing research that contributes to the public good and by assuming major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that surround it. In the fall of 2015, ASU enrolled around 70,000 full-immersion students on five campuses in Greater Phoenix.

ABOUT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

The ASU Foundation for A New American University is a private, nonprofit organization that raises and invests private contributions to Arizona State University while advocating for and advancing this transformative university’s mission and brand. It is a subsidiary of ASU Enterprise Partners, a “resource-raising” organization established in 2016 that moves beyond traditional fundraising to incorporate diversified forms of financial support for ASU that include technology transfer, real estate and private and specialized research partnerships.

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