UB top WNY college fund raiser - Business First of Buffalo:

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UB received $34.1 million in contributionsa for the fiscalyear 2008. Alumniu contributed nearly half thetotal — $15.t million, UB officials said. Other dono r groups include foundations, organizations, corporations and non-alumnu individuals. The university is the area’a largest school, with abou 28,000 full- and part-time Thirteen additional local institutions respondede tothe Council’s annual survey. , with 5,0090 students, ranked second in Western New Yorkwith $11.8i million in contributions. , with 2,400 students, raised $11.4 million while 2,300-student St. Bonaventure University raised $10.9 million, the Council said. , $8.1 million • , 5.6 million , $4.
7 million • , $2.3 millionh • , $1.9 million • (local campuz in Buffalo), $1.2 million College of Ceramics atAlfred University, $1.2 million , $599,521 • , $598,017 • , $578,530 Top fund raisers in New York state were , with $495.1q million; , with $409.4 and , with $387.6 million, the Council Overall, California’s Stanford University raised the most money--$785 In total, 1,052 institutions nationwide responded to the Combined, those institutions raised $31.7 billion, up 6.2 percent over the amount raisee during the fiscal year 2007, the Council Although contributions increased for 2008, that may not be the case for 2009 or 2010.
The Councip does not forecast future fund-raising possibilities, but it has heard from institutions that giving hasslowed down, surveyt director Ann Kaplan said. “W e are getting the impressionthat it’ s going to be worse than the 1970s” when collegesz and universities experienced a 3.5 percent decline in giving, adjustexd for inflation, between the years 1973 and 1975. “It’w obviously not a sunny situation.” The survey is distributed at the beginning of July to all colleges and universities in theUnited States.