{"id":55714,"date":"2019-04-16T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=55714"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:37","slug":"carleton-university-to-celebrate-reaching-300-million-collaborate-campaign-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-university-to-celebrate-reaching-300-million-collaborate-campaign-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University to Celebrate Reaching $300-Million Collaborate Campaign Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton University to Celebrate Reaching $300-Million Collaborate Campaign Goal\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University will celebrate its successful <a href=\"https:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/carleton-university-campaign-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaborate Campaign<\/a> &#8211; which has surpassed its $300-million goal. The multi-year fundraising effort is contributing to initiatives that support Carleton students, advance teaching and research, and serve the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration is an opportunity for Carleton to show its appreciation for more than 29,000 donors who made the ambitious project possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Remarks begin at 6:45 p.m.<br>\n<strong>Where<\/strong>: Second Floor Atrium, Richcraft Hall, Carleton University<br>\n<strong>Info<\/strong>: A campus map is <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/campus\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media are invited to attend the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contributions to the Collaborate Campaign will have a lasting impact, including 404 new scholarships and bursaries, support for 191 crowdfunded <a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FutureFunder<\/a> projects, and numerous other academic, research and student-focused initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programs that will be featured at the celebration include the accessible education partnership Break the Barriers, the Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work (CREWW), the Indigenous Enriched Support Program (IESP), and Women in Computer Science (WiCS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured speakers include Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon; Jennifer Conley, chief advancement officer in the Department of Advancement; and Phenyo Phillipo and Jaime Sadgrove of the Student Philanthropy Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca\">Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carleton Newsroom:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/<\/a><strong><br>\nFollow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>Need an expert?<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Go to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University will celebrate its successful Collaborate Campaign &#8211; which has surpassed its $300-million goal. The multi-year fundraising effort is contributing to initiatives that support Carleton students, advance teaching and research, and serve the community. The celebration is an opportunity for Carleton to show its appreciation for more than 29,000 donors who made the ambitious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":52383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[1559],"class_list":["post-55714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-advancement"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55718,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714\/revisions\/55718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}