Giving to YSM hits a record high

Gifts and new pledges to the School of Medicine jumped to a record $63.5 million for fiscal year 2000 that ended June 30. That’s 57 percent higher than the 1999 total of $40 million and 34 percent higher than the previous record, $47 million in fiscal 1998. Associate Dean Jane E. Reynolds attributed the record number to the robust stock market, a more aggressive development operation and “the extremely high caliber of faculty proposals that were funded by gifts during the year.” The $63.5 million figure—which is included in the record University-wide total of $358 million for fiscal 2000—includes $29.2 million from foundations, $15.5 million from individuals, $13 million from agencies and $5.8 million from corporations. Says Reynolds, “I think the best is yet to come.”