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Fall 2012

Trinity Reporter Fall 2012
cornerstone campaign update
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Stronger Trinity Fund support
Today, annual contributions to the Trinity Fund represent between eight and nine percent of the College’s annual operating budget—almost double the contribution a decade ago. This annual support is critical for closing the annual gap between tuition and the actual cost of a Trinity education.

Significant campus improvements

  • The Long Walk renovation and restoration
  • The Koeppel Community Sports Center
  • The Paul D. Assaiante Tennis Center
  • The Loberg Family Neuroscience Laboratory
  • The Gates Quad redesign

Critical funding toward new facilities projects
Proposed Music Rehearsal and Performance Center $3 million raised to date
Proposed Neurosciences Wing $2 million raised to date

The establishment of hallmark programs
The Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS)
The Center for Teaching and Learning

Substantial grant support from national foundations

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Kellogg Foundation
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health

Unprecedented endowment growth
More than 170 new endowed funds were established, totaling $185.7 million in contributions, including more than 75 new scholarship funds and 14 new endowed faculty chairs/professorships.

More donor and volunteer participation than ever before

  • 24,561 donors total (alumni, parents, friends, others) supporting the Cornerstone Campaign
  • Over 88 percent of alumni contributing to the Cornerstone Campaign
  • 100 percent of Trinity Trustees including Trinity in their estate plans
  • Senior Class giving participation exceeding 90 percent for seven consecutive years
  • More than 500 advancement volunteers

An historic level of fundraising—more than double the amount of our last campaign
Cornerstone/Legacy Campaigns
(2006-2012) $369 million
Trinity College Campaign
(1993-2001) $175 million
Campaign for Trinity
(1985-1989) $50 million
Campaign for Trinity Values
(1972-1978) $13 million

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