Northeastern Launches Most Ambitious Fundraising Campaign to Date

Northeastern University kicked off its next major fundraising campaign, Experience Powered by Northeastern, this week, as excitement builds for the next stage of the university’s evolution as a global, experiential research institution.

“Northeastern’s extraordinary momentum has been fueled by experience as the lifeblood of learning and discovery,” President Joseph E. Aoun wrote to the university community. “Today, the deep well of energy, talent, and spirit within our global community inspires us to celebrate and amplify the power of experience worldwide.” 

Experience Powered by Northeastern is “the largest and most ambitious” fundraising campaign in Northeastern’s history, says Diane MacGillivray, senior vice president for university advancement. Over the next five years, the campaign aims to raise $1.3 billion in philanthropic support. It is also embracing the communities across its 13-campus global university system, from Boston to London to Oakland, California, and aims to reach every student, faculty member, parent and graduate, no matter where they are.

“What is really important and exciting about Experience Powered by Northeastern is that it is unlike any other university campaign because Northeastern is unlike any other academic institution out there,” MacGillivray says.

“For a global university with a network that has 13 campuses across 13 cities and two continents, how you think about raising support for that network, for those communities, for our faculty and our students wherever they are, whether it’s on one of those campus platforms or anywhere else in the world, is an exciting challenge,” she adds. “No one has really done that before. But it’s also an enormous opportunity to think in a way that’s more out of the box and in a more innovative way.”

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