Raising Big Sums

As pressure mounts for nonprofit groups to hold billion-dollar campaigns, so do fund-raising challenges

By Holly Hall

Twenty years after fund raisers at Stanford University announced the first fund-raising campaign to raise $1.1-billion in 1987, colleges and universities still dominate the billion-dollar club, with 34 such campaigns completed and another 26 under way.

Last fall, Stanford raised the ante for big drives again,

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