The
Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World fund-raising
campaign ended Dec. 31 with total
commitments of $3.741 billion, creating 92 professorships,
generating 550 new scholarships and
graduate fellowships, and modernizing teaching, research
and patient care facilities at Johns Hopkins
campuses at home and around the world.
The more than 250,000 donors to the eight-year
campaign also enabled Johns Hopkins to launch
the new Carey Business School and the Sidney Kimmel
Comprehensive Cancer Center, endowed the
deanship of the university's Whiting School of Engineering,
added a new quadrangle to the Homewood
campus and provided millions of dollars in ongoing annual
support for the work of the university,
hospital and health system.
"I am amazed and gratified not just by the generosity
of our supporters but also by the sheer
number of people who believe so strongly in the work we
do," said William R. Brody, who was president
of The Johns Hopkins University throughout the campaign.
"More than a quarter-million individuals and
organizations from around the world gave to Johns Hopkins
during the past eight years. Each gift,
regardless of size, was an affirmation from our friends and
alumni that Johns Hopkins is a sound
investment. Each gift was a vote in support of our
determination that the work we do at Johns
Hopkins — in teaching, discovery and healing —
will make this world a better place."
Ronald J. Daniels, who will succeed Brody as president
of the university on March 2, joined his
predecessor in thanking donors to the campaign.
"Our alumni and friends have put Johns Hopkins in
position to make extraordinary discoveries
and to apply our knowledge for the common good," Daniels
said. "Now, it's our job as faculty, students
and staff to make good on the potential our supporters have
created. We are committed to using
these generous investments in Johns Hopkins wisely and
effectively."
The Knowledge for the World campaign, which began in
July 2000, was publicly announced in
2002 with an original goal of $2 billion by the end of
2007. That goal was surpassed two years ahead
of schedule.
Johns Hopkins' trustees, citing new challenges and
wanting to explore new opportunities to make
a difference in the world, added a year to the campaign and
extended the goal to $3.2 billion, a
milestone reached in June 2008. Knowledge for the World has
raised more dollars than all but one
other campaign in U.S. higher education history, according
to a database maintained by The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
Knowledge for the World attracted four of the five
largest commitments in Johns Hopkins
history, and 13 of the largest 20. Included were three
nine-figure gifts: $150 million announced in
2001 from Jones Apparel Group founder Sidney Kimmel for
cancer research and patient care at what
is now the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center; $100
million from an anonymous donor in 2001
to establish the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
at the Bloomberg School of Public Health;
and $100 million from an anonymous donor in 2006 to support
construction of a new children's hospital,
renovation of Gilman Hall, research in the School of
Medicine and initiatives at the Bloomberg School
of Public Health.
Four separate Knowledge for the World gifts from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation now rank
among the top 12 gifts in Johns Hopkins history. The Gates
Foundation commitments, totaling $157.1
million, were directed toward research to fight
tuberculosis in AIDS patients and childhood pneumonia
in developing countries, and toward promoting reproductive
health.
Of the total raised by the campaign's end, almost $3.1
billion, or 82 percent, came from sources
outside Maryland, helping to sustain Johns Hopkins' role as
the state's largest private employer and as
a driving force in the regional economy.
More than 58 percent of Knowledge for the World gifts
— $2.17 billion — went to Johns Hopkins
Medicine, which comprises The Johns Hopkins Hospital and
Health System and the university's School
of Medicine.
"At Johns Hopkins, we tackle some of the toughest
problems there are in medicine and the life
sciences," said Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker,
M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of
the Medical Faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Our
people are driven to crack those
problems, to take what they learn and use it to help
patients, and to train the physicians and scientists
who will take our discoveries even further.
"The extraordinary donors to the Knowledge for the
World campaign," Miller said, "have
immeasurably strengthened our abilities on every front.
They are creating new world-class space for
patient care, research and education. They have helped us
to recruit incomparable teams of
physicians, researchers and teachers. They have supported
research that will make a huge difference
in people's lives for many decades to come. We are
immensely grateful."
During the campaign, donors, among other
accomplishments, contributed:
♦ $301 million for undergraduate and graduate
student aid across the university
♦ $237 million for faculty support, including
endowed faculty chairs
♦ More than $1 billion for program support,
establishing or expanding not only the Kimmel
Cancer Center and the Malaria Research Institute but also
the Carey Business School, the Johns
Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute, the Institute for
Cell Engineering, the Genetics and Public
Policy Center and programs in Jewish studies, real estate,
South Asia studies, financial management,
Africana studies, United States-Korea relations, strategic
studies, child health, community nursing,
therapeutic cognitive neuroscience, cancer prevention and
treatment, and education reform, among
others
♦ $675 million to support a major modernization of
Johns Hopkins facilities, including
construction or renovation of more than 4.2 million square
feet in 24 buildings in the Baltimore-
Washington area and in Italy and China
♦ $1.27 billion to back research initiatives in
population health, basic sciences, cell
engineering, information security, nanobiotechnology, world
and U.S. history, the African diaspora,
sudden cardiac death, micronutrients, measles, behavioral
health, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer
and women in politics, among others.
See also
"Impact of the Knowledge for the
World Campaign"
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