USA, USA Health Fundraising Exceeds $26 Million

The University of South Alabama (USA) and USA Health have had their most successful fundraising year, they recently announced. Crediting “a growing alumni base, combined with committed supporters willing to give,” the organizations recorded $26,147,447 from 4,440 donors. The money will fund scholarships for social justice (USA, 100 Black Men Award Scholarship To Three) to a new USA Health campus in Baldwin County to major endowments for the colleges of nursing and engineering to the construction of a pediatric emergency center (USA Health Breaks Ground In Mobile, Fairhope). New donors made up 1,314 contributors. Employees and retirees of USA and USA Health gave more than $1.2 million through the USA Employee and Retiree Campaign. “In the past, it only took a year or two to get federal funding; now, the process takes five, six or seven years to complete,” explained Dr. Martin Heslin, director of the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute. “Individual donor money supports our academic physician scientists and is the difference that allows us to create those new therapies right here at the Mitchell Cancer Institute and USA Health.”