UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Annual Fund Impact Report 2016–17 Thank you.
As a top-ranked business school, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is increasingly reliant on Annual Fund donor support to maintain its excellence and give today’s students the same experience you had. Annual Fund Impact
The Chicago Booth Annual Fund had its • FACULTY RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT: Booth strongest fiscal year yet, ending June 30, 2017, successfully recruited new faculty from institutions like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Harvard with a $1.3 million increase in dollars raised University, and Stanford University, to name a few, as well over last year. The Annual Fund continues to as internally promoted nine professors and appointed four also advance toward reaching goals for the new chair holders. University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and • SCHOLARSHIPS: As we continue the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact, one of our priorities is Impact, which include securing gifts from 50 to attract the very best talent and enroll every student in percent of Booth alumni and raising $50 million whom we see great promise. Like scholarship recipient for the school by June 2019. Emma Sotomayor, who would like to bring her world class education back home to Mexico to set up her own VC firm. Without your gifts to the Annual Fund, the following would And recipient Rob Weir, a West Point graduate and former have lacked sufficient support: platoon leader in Afghanistan who wants to combine his past experiences with his new business skills to provide • FACULTY RESEARCH: In the past decade, Booth faculty business solutions to nonprofits and organizations that have been awarded 11 out of 18 Sloan Research aim to alleviate the suffering people go through because Fellowships in economics—more than any other business of civil war. school or economics department in the country. This year, Joseph S. Vavra, associate professor at Booth, was selected for the fellowship.
ANNUAL FUND PROGRESS
2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17
Dollars (in millions) $5.90 $6.00 $6.30 $7.70 $8.98
Donors 8,159 8,129 8,393 7,998 8,437
ANNUAL FUND CAMPAIGN GOAL CUMULATIVE PROGRESS*
2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17
$50M Dollars Raised (Cumulative) $11.20M $17.20M $23.50M $31.20M $40.20M
50% Donor Participation 28% 30% 33% 37% 40%
* Campaign ends June 2019 The Chicago Booth Impact Challenge: Multiply Your Impact
Challenge CHICAGO BOOTH Goal IMPACT Exceeded! CHALLENGE
$612,853 matching dollars used