Giving News

As colleges and universities across the nation struggle with budgets hampered by endowment losses, the focus for development officers has shifted even more to raising expendable dollars on an annual basis to meet the needs of their institutions.

For years, Duke has been on a high-growth trajectory. With declines in endowment returns and philanthropic giving, the university—like most of higher education—is adjusting to a challenging financial reality.

Donation from trustee David Rubenstein allowed Sanford to meet fundraising target

Duke Endowment, medical alumni to contribute

The Duke Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) partners with two of the nation's premier foundations to provide outstanding programs for academically gifted students with financial needs.

Susan Cranford Ross, who over nearly three decades served successively as a fund-raising leader for Duke University's Annual Fund, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Athletics, and most recently Duke's Financial Aid Initiative, will step down from the university on June 30.

Local companies and individuals gave gernerously to support the schools and organizations that are part of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.

"In its new role, the Sanford School is crucial to our mission of bringing knowledge to the service of society,? said Duke President Richard H. Brodhead.

The budget calls for an increase in undergraduate financial aid of 17.1 percent, making it the highest percentage increase of any component in the budget.