Stanford University raised $6.2 billion, the most ever for any university, in a five-year campaign that concluded Dec. 31.
The Stanford Challenge officially started in October 2006 with a goal of $4.3 billion, according to a statement today from the university. The total includes $2.19 billion that Stanford raised before the campaign began, said Lisa Lapin, a university spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
Palo Alto, California, June 29, 2009 — The nation’s largest nonprofit organizations have outpaced corporations and academic institutions in their adoption of social media, for the second year in a row, according to a new research study, “Still Setting the Pace in Social Media: The First Longitudinal Study of Usage by the Largest US Charities.” The study was conducted by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of the Society for New Communications Research and Chancellor Professor of Marketing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Eric Mattson, CEO of Financial Insite Inc., a Seattle-based research firm.
