Attention U-Va. Grads: Fundraising Pitches Await

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DOWN IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, officials at the University of Virginia are dealing with a pretty big task: raise $1,025,045 today, another $1,025,045 tomorrow and another $1,025,045 the next day. Then that must be repeated, as The Post's Susan Kinzie reports, all the way into 2011, when U-Va.'s ambitious $3 billion fundraising push, started in 2004, ends. Currently, the university has raised $1.375 billion, about half its goal.

"There's a lot of pressure with this," Robert Sweeney, U-Va.'s senior vice president for development, tells The Post. Oh really? Well, at least Sweeney isn't in charge of raising $3 billion in alumni donations from George Washington University graduates, whose alumni giving comes in at a dismal 11 percent, according to the City Paper.

» "U-Va. Drive May Raise Stakes for Fundraising" [WaPo]
» "The $50,630 Question" [City Paper]