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CHANGED CHANGING WORLDS 2020: THE CAMPAIGN FOR UNM SUMMARY
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hanks to you — all 77,022 of you — Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM exceeded its ambitious fundraising goal of $1 billion.
The combined gifts from a large and generous extended family of UNM supporters totaled $1,164,785,722 when the campaign closed out on June 30, 2020. In 2006, UNM launched the third giving campaign in its history. It was called The Campaign for UNM and its goal was ambitious: to raise $675 million in private donations in eight years. That campaign exceeded its goal and was extended until 2020 with a new name and a larger goal. Now, with more than $1.16 billion achieved, it is a perfect time to reflect on what those donations translate into and what they can inspire. Your donations have already planted seeds that are beginning to grow across UNM campuses in the form of scholarships and financial aid to help UNM students, grants to help UNM faculty and labs and centers devoted to discovery, improved care for patients at UNM’s hospitals and clinics and enhanced programs for community neighbors across New Mexico.
It means students studying the French horn, pharmacy, engineering, the cello, chemistry and bilingual education can worry less about money and concentrate more on their studies, thanks to endowed scholarships. It means access to fresh produce and healthy food for people living along the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico, thanks to a health disparities donation to the UNM Office for Community Health. It means a boost for the UNM Anderson School of Management’s New Mexico for Good initiative to encourage students to pursue socially responsible business ventures. And it means one UNM undergraduate student living with a disability will receive tuition assistance to honor the legacy of an alumna who navigated UNM as a student in a wheelchair. Every donation tells a story. And you can read about more donors, what inspired them to support The Campaign for UNM and how their gifts changed worlds in the following pages.
What does your record-setting generosity mean?
If you saw the promise that UNM holds for New Mexico and opened your heart to help, thank you.
It means that children with cerebral palsy, scoliosis and other musculoskeletal disorders at UNM’s Carrie Tingley Hospital gait and motion analysis lab no longer have to travel to Arizona or Colorado for therapy, thanks to a new state-of-the art oxygen sensor.
If you’re inspired by UNM, and can join the thousands of supporters whose donations are vital to the University’s continued excellence and growth, please consider a gift. Large or small, it can plant a seed and from a seed remarkable things can grow.
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