UBC fundraising initiative reaches $1-billion mark

UBC announced Friday that to date it has raised $1.03 billion in its "start an evolution" campaign, whose objective is to raise $1.5 billion and to involve 50,000 alumni annually in the life of the institution by 2015. More than 138,000 donations have been made to the campaign. Of those, 90,000 have come from UBC alumni. In the past year, more than 38,000 alumni have been involved in some way with the life of UBC, representing 76% of the institution's alumni engagement target. UBC News Release