Fairfield University took a significant step towards its $125 million capital campaign earlier this week, when the school announced an anonymous donor made a $10 million gift to the university.
According to the President of Fairfield University, Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., the gift was made by a friend of the university who is impressed with Fairfield’s progress towards the capital campaign’s goal of $125 million.
“While we would prefer to recognize this generous benefactor publicly,” Kelley said, “we must honor the donor’s desire to forego such acknowledgement. We are deeply grateful for the confidence in Fairfield that this most gracious support so clearly evidences.”
Nancy Habetz, a spokeswoman for the university, said that the $10 million gift puts Fairfield just $15 million shy if its $125 million goal, with just over one year left in the campaign.
“We originally set our campaign goal at $100 million,” said George Diffley, vice president for advancement, “but this gift, which greatly assisted us with this new facilities portion of that agenda, also encouraged us to raise our goal by an additional $25 million, so we might accomplish even more than we first envisioned.”
Habetz also said that this gift is the second largest donation ever given to the university, behind a $25 million gift given to Fairfield by Charles and Helen Dolan, after whom the business school is named. Charles Dolan is the founder and chairman of Cablevision Systems Corp.
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