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As the Johns Hopkins Initiative concluded with a remarkable $1.52 billion in commitments at the end of fiscal year 2000, a new single-year record for cash receipts was set. This total was up nearly 47% over the previous year. The year's total of new commitments was the second-highest for the six-year campaign. The Hopkins campaign–which exceeded its expanded $1.2 billion goal by more than 27%–is only the sixth campaign at a U.S. university to raise $1.5 billion or more. Of the total committed to the University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, nearly $1.14 billion–almost 75%–was already in hand as of June 30, 2000. The original $900 million Johns Hopkins Initiative goal was surpassed in April 1998, and the next month the University's Board of Trustees set an expanded goal of $1.2 billion. That expanded goal was reached in May 1999. This campaign drew unprecedented support from more than 100,000 alumni, friends, corporations, foundations, and other organizations. The top priorities of the expanded Johns Hopkins Initiative were endowment for student aid and the libraries, as well as support for facilities. During its final year, the campaign continued to focus on these goals as well as on addressing crucial divisional priorities. The Initiative, co-chaired by trustees and alumni Lenox D. Baker Jr. and R. Champlin Sheridan, brought to Hopkins a total of $859.7 million in commitments for endowment and capital projects, as well as $660.3 million for program support. Of these total funds, $162.8 million was designated for student aid. Gifts and pledges to Johns Hopkins Medicine–comprising the School of Medicine and the Hospital and Health System–accounted for $703.8 million, fully 46% of the total committed during the Initiative. Gifts from individuals accounted for $895.6 million; from foundations, $350.9 mil-lion; from corporations, $128.2 million; and from other organizations, $145.2 million. Fiscal year 2000 brought record-setting cash receipts from private donors–including new gifts and payments on pledges–of $304 million. New commitments totaled $262 million, second only to the total for fiscal 1999. Nearly 48,500 alumni, parents, patients and other friends, and faculty and staff made annual contributions to the University and Johns Hopkins Medicine in fiscal 2000. Gifts received during fiscal 2000 directly benefited teaching, research, student life, and patient care. In addition, these gifts helped both increase the financial stability and provide the flexibility the Johns Hopkins Institutions need to ensure continued leadership and innovation. |
NURSING
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
PEABODY A renaissance of sorts took place at Peabody in 1998 with the installation of a custom-built Holtkamp organ in a newly renovated North Hall, renamed for alumna Leith Symington Griswold. Both the organ and the renovations were the result of campaign gifts. “There is no instrument quite like this one anywhere else in Baltimore,” said Peabody organist Donald Sutherland (pictured with organ above), who performed four inaugural concerts. Other crucial impacts of the Initiative at Peabody are a tripling of the endowment and a tremendous increase in student aid. |
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The
first Hopkins facility dedicated solely to
nursing education
andresearch is one of the jewels of the Johns Hopkins
Initiative. The
new home of the School of Nursing–the Anne M.
Pinkard Building–was
dedicated in 1998 amid reminders of Hopkins' nursing
tradition. The
facility brings together offices, classrooms, and
research labs previously
scattered among six buildings. It is equipped for
distance learning
and also houses the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing
and the Center
for Nursing Research. Other enhancements to the School
as a result of
campaign gifts include a 152% increase in student
financial aid
endowment and the broadening of services offered by the
Lillian Wald
Community Nursing Center, through which the School
provides health care
to some of Baltimore's neediest families.
Since
1959, when the Applied Physics Laboratory entered the
nascent field
of space science research, it has excelled in the
discipline: 58
spacecraft built and launched, 138 instruments
designed and installed
on spacecraft around the world. Its latest
accomplishment has been to
place the first spacecraft (NEAR Shoemaker) in orbit
around an asteroid
(Eros). The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
mission, the first
in NASA's Discovery Program, has returned
spectacular images
since its February 14, 2000 rendezvous with Eros. Shown
is a composite
of images depicting Eros' northern hemisphere.
Scientists are studying
such images and other data being returned from the
spacecraft to help
determine the composition and history of an
asteroid. What we
learn about Eros will give scientists key information
about the formation
of our solar system. 