Can we count on you to make the impossible possible? Join the many generous donors who support UCLA Anderson as it moves Into the Next.
On Wednesday, at Anderson’s gala dinner officially launching our part of the $4.2 billion UCLA Centennial Campaign, Dean Judy Olian announced the largest gift in the history of UCLA Anderson: $100 million.
The generous donation comes from long-time supporter Marion Anderson, chair of Topa Equities and wife of the late John E. Anderson, for whom the school is named. This transformative sum will go toward raising the endowment by $60 million to support the research and teaching mission of Anderson faculty and programs and fellowships for students, with the remaining $40 million set aside as seed funding for a new building that takes the school Into the Next.
Our original fundraising target was $175 million plus another $80 million for improvement of facilities. Thanks to Marion Anderson’s latest gift, we have already raised more than $183 million. As a result, the Into the Next Campaign now has momentum to target $300 million.
With the initial gifts that John and Marion Anderson made first in 1987 to name the school, and then in 2011 toward the Accelerate Campaign, they are among the most generous donors to any business school, ever.
As UCLA’s director of media relations Phil Hampton reported, Anderson said her gift is motivated by her appreciation of the role and impact of UCLA Anderson as a global innovator in management education, and that it is a tribute to her husband’s passion for education and community priorities. “UCLA Anderson has adopted an innovative financial model that depends on private giving,” she said. “I hope my gift will inspire others to join me and my family in making significant philanthropic investments in UCLA Anderson and UCLA, and in future generations of students and faculty.”
Dean Olian told the UCLA Newsroom, “I am inspired every day by Marion’s personal values and fierce integrity, and I am so very proud and grateful that she is so closely connected to our school. She has been an unfailing supporter and driver of change around the educational needs of business school students and graduates in a rapidly changing marketplace.”
Read the full article in the UCLA Newsroom
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