Kresge Challenge

ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERISTY SURPASSES KRESGE CHALLENGE GOAL


St. Bonaventure University’s Anniversary Campaign has a goal of $90 million, and part of this goal is one of the largest “bricks and mortar” projects that the University has undertaken — the building of the William F. Walsh The "extraordinary efforts" of De La Roche Challenge Committee Chair Robert D. Crowley, class of '71,  helped push the University to its fundraising goal. Crowley is from Warren, Pa.Science Center and renovation of DeLaRoche Hall.


The total project cost is $14,614,000, which will enhance our science facilities as well as create an academic hub on campus.


The Kresge Foundation will allocate $850,000 to this project as a result of SBU's meeting of its recent "all or nothing" challenge. This challenge stipulated that to receive the money, SBU had to raise $2.66 million in private funds by Oct. 1, 2007. SBU has not only met this challenge four months ahead of schedule, it has surpassed it by nearly  $500,000. 
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Below are the members of the De La Roche Challenge Committee, led by Robert D. Crowley, '71 (pictured above), and the members of the SBU Development Team who helped make it all possible.

The De La Roche Challenge Committee with members of the SBU Development Team. 




Pictured: Logo for The Anniversary Campaign for St. Bonaventure University