Significant advances have been made toward campaign goals in the priority areas of Annual Giving, Engineering and a Sustainable Society, Exploration in the Arts, New Frontiers in Neuroscience, Citizenship and the World, and The Princeton Experience.

July 2005–October 2007
During the “quiet phase” of the campaign, more than $610 million in gifts and pledges were received, including

• $101 million from Peter B. Lewis ’55 to create the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts   More...
  

• a donation from Robert H. Niehaus ‘77 and his wife, Kate Southworth Niehaus, to endow the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs   More...

• 33,000 items, worth more than $16 million, from Lloyd E. Cotsen ’50 for the Cotsen Children’s Library   More...

• A donation by Sidney Lapidus ’59 and his wife, Ruth, to establish the Lapidus Family Fund for American Jewish Studies   More...

• $1.3 million from the Friends of Swimming and Diving for renovations to DeNunzio Pool   More...

• $10 million from William C. Powers ’79 for Princeton's football program   More...

• $8.4 million for the Roberts Soccer Stadium, named in honor of Thomas S. Roberts ’85   More...

• a gift from John H. Streicker ’64 to construct a pedestrian bridge across Washington Road   More...

• $4 million from Kathryn Wasserman Davis and her son, Shelby M. C. Davis ’58, for the International Center   More...

• $30 million from James S. McDonnell III '58, John F. McDonnell '60, and the JSM Charitable Trust to establish the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute   More...

November 2007
The “quiet phase” ended at the official launch of the campaign on November 9. During the on-campus kickoff celebration, President Shirley M. Tilghman said, "Princeton aspires to make the world a better place through the power of the mind and the imagination, the insights and discoveries of its faculty, and the contributions of its alumni in their careers and communities.”   More...

Donations in support of those aspirations have included the following:

March 2008

• $4 million from Anthony H.P. Lee ’79 to enhance the study and performance of jazz   More...

• $5 million from Jane and Mark Wilf ’84 for Wilf Hall, a new dormitory in Butler College, and the Jane and Mark Wilf ’84 and Wilf Family Fund for Jewish Life to support programming in the Center for Jewish Life   More...

April 2008

• $25 million from Dennis J. Keller ’63 and his wife, Constance Templeton Keller, to endow the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and support other initiatives in engineering and ecology   More...

June 2008

• $54.1 million for Annual Giving, an all-time record   More...

July 2008

• $100 million from Gerhard R. (Gerry) Andlinger ’52 to accelerate research on problems of energy and the environment by creating the Gerhard R. Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment in the School of Engineering and Applied Science   More...

• $4.5 million from Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron ’74 for the Princeton Environmental Institute, to support work at the intersection of environmental studies and the humanities   More...

September 2008

• a donation by the late John J. F. Sherrerd '52 for Sherrerd Hall, which houses the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the Center for Information Technology Policy   More...

December 2008

• contributions by members of the Class of 1967 for a new dorm, Class of 1967 Hall in Butler College   More...

Less than a year after the official launch of the campaign, gifts to Aspire surpassed the 50 percent milestone, with $926.5 million in commitments, including 63,831 gifts from 45,704 alumni, parents, family members, and friends, and $80 million for Annual Giving.

February 2009