SDSU Fundraising Program Hailed for Sixth Consecutive Year
Only 16 universities nationwide were recognized in 2018 for sustained fundraising excellence.
San Diego State University is one of 16 universities and colleges nationwide to be recognized in 2018 for the sustained excellence of its fundraising program.
The award is from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the premier professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development and marketing.
CASE recognized SDSU for superior overall performance and for sustained excellence based on the last six years of fundraising data.
SDSU’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign concluded in June 2017 with total fundraising of $815 million to benefit students, faculty, staff and programming. The university has raised more than $100 million from donors in each of the last two years.
In addition to SDSU, other schools honored by CASE for sustained fundraising excellence in 2018 were Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Miami, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and 10 others.
To be recognized for sustained excellence, universities must have received overall performance or overall improvement awards in three of the past five years and demonstrated consistent fundraising success over a five-year period.
In 2018, CASE recognized 53 institutions for overall performance and 16 institutions for sustained excellence.
