Donor Focus: My Big, Fat, Greek Donor Base

“Getting funding for the three endowed chairs wasn’t an easy task,” she explains. “The problem was that, although important to society and education, it’s not life and death. However, there is no complete understanding of world history without Greek history as a foundation.”

The successful volunteer fundraising effort was coordinated by the UCSD development office. Money raised for the endowed Greek history faculty chairs contributes to the university’s $1 billion initiative, The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What’s Next.