::AnewAU - Gift Pyramid

Don Myers, KSB/MBA '78

"The university’s aca-demic success is para-mount to all of us at AU," says Don Myers, KSB/MBA ’78, VP of finance and treasurer. "From the beginning, our goal of developing the financial resources and strength-ening the financial under-pinnings of the university was strategically targeted to support our long-term academic mission."

GIFT PYRAMID

Gifts needed x size of each gift = subtotal (cumulative total)

Leadership gifts
1 x $20 million = $20 million ($20 million)
2 x $10 million = $20 million ($40 million)
6 x $ 5 million = $30 million ($70 million)
9 x $2.5 million = $22.5 million ($92.5 million)
20 x $ 1 million = $20 million ($112.5 million)

Major gifts
30 x $500,000 = $15 million ($127.5 million)
60 x $250,000 = $15 million ($142.5 million)
140 x $100,000 = $14 million ($156.5 million)

Special gifts
250 x $50,000 = $12.5 million ($169 million)
400 x $25,000 = $10 million ($179 million)

Gifts up to $10,000
many up to $10,000 = $21 million ($200 million)

Campaign Goal : $200 million