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Dear Colleagues,
When Johns Hopkins launched Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins in 2010, the $4.5 billion goal was the largest fundraising effort in the university's history. Support for the campaign has been awe-inspiring, as donors have embraced the vision to advance research and discovery, attract new faculty members, and increase professorships and scholarships for students.
Today, Ronald J. Daniels, president of The Johns Hopkins University, announced an increase in the goal and the extension of the campaign to further these efforts. Please read President Daniels' message below.
Sincerely,
Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Ronald R. Peterson
President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff:
For six years, the Johns Hopkins community has been engaged in a truly monumental enterprise: our Rising to the Challenge campaign.
Today, I am writing with exciting news about the future of this remarkable effort. We have decided to raise our goal from $4.5 to $5 billion, and extend the time of the campaign by one year, from June 2017 to June 2018.
We are inspired to set our sights higher thanks to the exceptional generosity of our friends and alumni, who have already committed $3.71 billion to our effort, putting us on pace to exceed our original goals.
It is clear that they share our university's unwavering belief in the power of reason and ideas to shape and guide human behavior and in the power of our university to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and truth, which are the bedrock of a decent society.
They see clearly the ingenuity and persistence of our people. They appreciate the audaciousness of our researchers and clinicians, like those who made melanoma melt away by harnessing the power of our own immune system to fight cancer. They recognize the promise of our Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, who have launched new partnerships across disciplines to solve our pressing urban challenges and bring basic brain science into the classroom. They see how our public health experts have restored optimism in communities as far-flung as sub-Saharan Africa and as nearby as East Baltimore and how our artists and scholars have given soaring voice on the page and onstage to the drama of human history.
And they share our commitment to extending a Johns Hopkins education to the most talented and deserving young people regardless of their financial means and to making meaningful impact in the lives of our neighbors and our communities across our home city of Baltimore.
We have again set a very high bar. Among our goals for the next 28 months, we seek to double the 150 endowed professorships secured so far and to raise an additional $54 million in endowed scholarship support beyond the $61 million already pledged.
I have no doubt we will achieve all we have set out to do.
For this, I have to thank our exceptional team of people who are leading this effort. I owe a debt of gratitude to the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Jeff Aronson, who, along with his counterpart at Johns Hopkins Medicine, David Hodgson, has been a visionary and steadfast partner in this effort. I also extend my sincere thanks to campaign co-chairs Chuck Clarvit, Heather Murren, and Mayo Shattuck and our tireless and talented development and alumni professionals, who simply could not be better advocates for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
And, of course, on behalf of our entire Johns Hopkins community, I have to thank you—our faculty, clinicians, students, and staff—who give full expression to our mission and inspire such extraordinary benefaction.
I am delighted and humbled to be able to do all we can to support the work you do each day.
I hope you will take the time to learn more about our plans for the next phase of Rising to the Challenge at rising.jhu.edu.
Sincerely,
Ronald J. Daniels
President
Johns Hopkins University
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