SMHS Exceeds Fundraising Goal for FY14

SMHS's Development and Alumni Relations Office and Grateful Patient Program reports that private philanthropy has exceeded the target for FY14.

SMHS has surpassed its official attainment goal of $18 million, actually reaching nearly $21 million.

Of Note:

  • Alumni contributed $5 million
  • Friends (including grateful patients) made gifts amounting to nearly $5.5 million
  • Corporations and Foundations gave nearly $8.2 million.

This has been the most successful fundraising year since the start of the counting period for the GW Campaign in FY12.

On June 20, The George Washington University launched a $1 billion philanthropic campaign.

Latest News

Alison Hall, PhD, senior associate dean for research at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), recently assumed the added role of interim director of the GW Cancer Center following the departure of Julie Bauman, MD. In this Q+A she discusses future plans for the GW Cancer Center.
Abigail Polter, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology, recently received a grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative to study a small, but integral part of the mid-brain, called the ventral tegmental area responsible for executive function that she…
Pedro Gazzinelli Guimarães, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently named among the “New Voices in Microbiology” by the journal Infection and Immunity.