The Mayo Clinic announced recently that it raised $1.35 billion in its first comprehensive fundraising campaign.
The amount raised during the five-year initiative eclipsed the $1.25 billion it had hoped to achieve.
Mayo said it embarked on this campaign in 2005 to raise philanthropic support to accelerate innovations in clinical practice, education and research that have the potential to revolutionize medicine in the 21st century on all three Mayo campuses. The three campuses are located in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Arizona.
"Surpassing this goal is important since Mayo Clinic’s business and mission – ‘to provide the best care to every patient every day’ – is rooted in providing high-quality care, education and research," said John Noseworthy, president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. "The campaign’s success is a reflection of the trust patients and the public have in Mayo Clinic."
James Lyddy, chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Development said that the money raised during the successful [missing word] came from more than 286,000 benefactors and better positions the clinic for short- and long-term success.
In fact, short-term transformations are already being realized such as the Mayo Clinic Schulze Center for Novel Therapeutics, which is translating laboratory findings into vanguard methods to treat cancer.
Some additional facilities and programs made possible by the campaign include: Gabriel House of Care, a 30-bedroom hospitality house that will be built on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida for transplant and radiation therapy patient; Village at Mayo Clinic, on-campus housing and amenities on the Mayo Clinic Hospital campus in Phoenix for patients receiving ongoing cancer treatment or are awaiting transplant surgery; and the Mayo Clinic T. Denny Sanford Pediatric Center, an all-in-one subspecialty pediatric clinic that cares for more than 46,000 children and their families yearly.