Thank you, Baylor Family!
Because of you, Baylor’s Give Light Campaign surpassed $1.5 billion in gifts, making this the most successful comprehensive fundraising campaign in our 179-year history. Your support is creating a brighter future for Baylor University and our students!
Give Light Campaign Progress
The Give Light Campaign surpassed the initial goal of $1.1 billion, marking the campaign as the largest and most successful fundraising effort in the University’s 177-year history.
The Give Light Campaign’s 99,000 donors have given or pledged more than $1.5 billion, including:
- Helping to grow Baylor’s endowment by $615 million;
- Providing more than $590 million to fund and create programs and establish scholarships through expendable funds; and
- Supporting the Give Light Capital Fund, which undergirds the campus’s capital priorities and has received $285 million toward its campaign goal of $300 million.
Campaign Priorities
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Endowment is critical to securing our future. Investment in endowment will lay a foundation upon which future generations will grow in their knowledge and pursuit of their life's calling.
Critical resources are needed to support facilities and infrastructure for growth in research and programs that contribute solutions to problems facing an ever-changing world and prepare graduates as leaders in their fields.
Gifts to the President's Excellence Fund create the ability for the University to meet tangible needs beyond tuition support for students or programs that may need a boost of support.
Baylor stands apart as a Christian research university - a position that empowers our aspiration to become the world's preeminent Christian research university.
News
Read More NewsBaylor University today announced a $1.5 million gift from the family of George Heilmeier through the Heilmeier-Jarvie Family Foundation, of Plano, Texas, establishing The George Heilmeier Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering to attract, retain and support innovative research and teaching within the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Baylor University has announced the naming of the Hankamer School of Business’s Curb Sales Strategy in Sports and Entertainment (S3E) program – formerly known as the Sports Strategy and Sales program – honoring leading music and entertainment executive Mike Curb of Nashville, Tennessee.
Baylor University is mourning the death of Baylor alumnus, former Regent and Board Chair and dedicated philanthropist Thomas R. “Tom” Powers of Houston, who passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 24, with his family by his side.
The new pavilion has a capacity of 7,500 seats, which contains 1,000 seats for students and some spots that are right on top of the action. It’s a smaller venue than the Ferrell Center, but the design is purposeful.