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The Bowdoin Campaign

The Campaign at a Glance

The Bowdoin Campaign (FY 2004-2009) was the largest fundraising campaign in the College’s 215-year history. It raised $293.57 million, more than $43 million above the goal of $250 million, for financial aid, the academic program, and student life. Of the total raised, approximately $100 million will be used to ensure access to Bowdoin for low- and moderate-income students through financial aid.

In addition to providing new resources for student financial aid, the College has used the money to create eight new faculty positions in critical areas of its curriculum; to substantially enhance its faculty sabbatical program; to provide new research opportunities for students; and to create the new Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good. Campaign funds have also been used to construct the new Studzinski Recital Hall and Kanbar Auditorium, to fully renovate and expand the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, to construct the new Sidney J. Watson Arena, and to build the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.

More than 17,000 donors made capital and annual gifts to Bowdoin's fundraising campaign.

Bowdoin Campaign Giving by Constituency
Alumni 11,811 $88,437,234.67 30.12
Board Members 129 $107,566,608.94 36.64
Corporations 381 $3,532,153.83 1.2
Estates/Trusts 109 $39,742,846.31 13.54
Faculty/Staff 137 $975,662.77 0.33
Family Foundations 16 $12,512,220.11 4.26
Foundations/Public Charities 86 $15,194,870.78 5.18
Other Individuals 2,279 $7,307,184.36 2.49
Other Organizations 124 $1,251,410.47 0.43
Parents 2,442 $17,050,385.07 5.81
17,514 $293,570,577.31

Campaign at a Glance Chart

The Bowdoin Campaign
Financial Aid Endowment: $100.51 Million
Faculty Chair Endowment: $16.72 Million
Sabbatical Leave Endowment: $8.41 Million
Academic Affairs Endowment: $5.16 Million
Center for the Common Good Endowment: $3.41 Million
Student Affairs Endowment: $2.07 Million
Other Endowment: $8.48 Million
Financial Aid Spendable: $4.78 Million
Grants and Academic/Student Life Program: $23.62 Million
Watson Arena: $13.28 Million
Buck Center for Health & Fitness: $11.41 Million
Studzinski Recital Hall: $16.36 Million
Museum of Art Renovation: $9.55 Million
Kanbar Hall: $5.02 Million
Annual Giving: $50.75 Million
Designation Pending: $12.44 Million
Tangible Property/Gifts In Kind: $1.60 Million
Campaign Grand Total: $293.57 Million