(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Donors in 2022 made it a record 12 months for philanthropic help for the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) with greater than 7,500 donors contributing $51.7 million to help a variety of USAFA initiatives.
These contributions carry the overall funding within the Defining Our Future marketing campaign to $248.26 million. Launched in 2021 by the nonprofit Air Force Academy Foundation and Association of Graduates (AOG), the marketing campaign focuses on elevating non-public philanthropy in help of the USAFA mission and boosting engagement, delight, and participation amongst graduates and households.
These non-public donations improve the academic and management alternatives crucial to completely develop future officers for the USAFA. Philanthropy created an influence throughout the USAFA all through 2022, funding initiatives and enhancements across the academy.
Mark Hille ’97, president of the AOG and Foundation, stated that, whereas the Defining Our Future marketing campaign raises substantial non-public help for the Academy’s mission, it has different objectives as properly.
“The campaign creates opportunities for graduates, parents, and families, and supporters to help advance USAFA’s excellence,” Hille stated. “It’s a way graduates and friends can feel vitally connected to the mission — to know they are supporting USAFA cadets in developing into the leaders of character our Air Force and Space Force require.”
