Residence > Press Releases > Georgia Southern donors assist College attain record-breaking fundraising yr
For the second yr in a row, Georgia Southern College set a file for personal fundraising, in keeping with figures from the final fiscal yr.
Complete money, pledges and in-kind presents to Georgia Southern College amounted to $22,363,915 throughout Fiscal 12 months ‘22, which ended on June 30, 2022. That surpasses the full from the earlier yr, which was additionally a file at $17.8 million. The earlier file was $16.2 million raised in fiscal yr 2019, the yr that the College’s School of Enterprise was named for Greg Parker.
The Georgia Southern Athletic Basis, along with the Division of Athletics, considerably helped the College’s total whole with its personal record-setting fundraising numbers for the 2021-2022 fiscal yr. The Georgia Southern Athletic Basis raised a file $10.6 million in new pledges and outright presents.
“This file of personal fundraising is an amazing validation of what we’ve got completed over the previous couple of years and of our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the College,” stated Georgia Southern College President Kyle Marrero. “I’m extremely grateful to our donors for fueling the transformational energy of training in Southeast Georgia.” The common reward quantity final yr was $2,623, a rise from the 2021 common of $1,783. College alumni – 2,839 of them – contributed $8.9 million of that whole.
Among the main presents to the College this previous yr included:
- The most important philanthropic reward ever dedicated to Georgia Southern Athletics, when Anthony Tippins and his household dedicated to the lead reward for the Indoor Observe Facility, which shall be named in honor of this monumental reward. The 100,000-square-foot facility will present an elite and year-round follow and coaching facility for all 17 intercollegiate athletic groups and provides many sports activities a spot to follow throughout inclement climate. Anthony Tippins, initially from Claxton, Georgia, is the present President of Coolsys Skilled Options.
- A $1 million donation to the Allen E. Paulson School of Engineering and Computing to develop the Superior Processing Analysis Community (APRN) from Crider, Inc. of Stillmore, Georgia, a world processor of shelf-stable and totally cooked protein merchandise. Because the Criders have seen their enterprise develop via automation know-how, the necessity for proficient engineers to program and keep that know-how is rising with it. They consider Georgia Southern holds an area alternative to search out the expertise they want.
Marrero stated a lot of the credit score for the previous yr’s success ought to go to the Athletic Basis Board Chair Leonard Bevill and the Georgia Southern Basis Board Chair Mike Sanders.
“Mike and Leonard share our daring imaginative and prescient for Georgia Southern’s future and their efforts are instrumental in serving to us understand that imaginative and prescient, illustrated by the outcomes we’ve got achieved this yr,” Marrero stated. “We merely can not accomplish our targets with out tireless volunteers like Mike and Leonard.”
Sanders stated Georgia Southern has an excellent story to inform now and its future may be very brilliant.
“Georgia Southern is already a drive on this state. From Atlanta to Savannah, from Macon to Augusta, and from Rome to Brunswick, we’re making an affect,” Sanders stated. “As we hear in regards to the new Hyundai plant coming to Bryan County, the continued emergence of the ports, the necessity for analysis that impacts the local people, and extra, Georgia Southern is in the midst of all of it. These fund-raising achievements make us greater than prepared to satisfy these calls for.”
Bevill stated athletic supporters are feeling an identical momentum, with main constructing initiatives underway, a brand new soccer coach, and an unwavering dedication to success on and off the sector.
“The Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Middle and the Anthony P. Tippins Indoor Observe Facility initiatives imply we’ve got nearly $80 million in new amenities approaching line to profit the entire College’s pupil inhabitants in addition to offering a aggressive benefit for our student-athletes,” Bevill stated. “At no time in our historical past has this been carried out earlier than. Issues we’ve got wished for and talked about at the moment are a actuality. We’re really altering the panorama of our College for generations.”
