In just over a year, a two-year matching gift from the Farmer Family Foundation is nearly depleted. The Farmer Family Foundation’s matching gift doubled all funds received by the Farmer School between July 1, 2023, and June 20, 2025, up to $20 million. There is currently less than $1 million in matching funds remaining.
Jenny Darroch, Dean of the Farmer School and Mitchell P. Rales Chair in Business Leadership, commented, “The Farmer Family Foundation’s gift has given a tremendous boost to our fundraising efforts. Including their matching funds, which doubled the impact of many donations in fiscal year 2024, we raised nearly $30 million in cash, benefiting:
- Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship
- Center for Corporate Management (Goal-Oriented Management)
- Center for LIFE
- Center for Real Estate Finance and Investment (REFI)
- Center for Supply Chain Excellence
- Dauch Student Advisory Center
- Business Student – Faculty Engagement Fund
- EY Support Fund, Accounting, Finance, Cybersecurity
- Farmer School Career Services
- Farmer School – Fund to support students in mental health and wellbeing
- Grainger Fellows
- Hughes Family Scholars
- KeyBank Finance Curriculum, Technology, Scholarship Funding
- Ryan Fellows
- Student-managed mutual fund (RedHawk Capital)
- US bank funding for cybersecurity and Center for Business Leadership
We are very grateful to the Farmer Family Foundation and all donors whose support enables us to offer our students an education of unmatched quality.”
To learn more about the Farmer School capital campaign, please contact Lisa Raatz, [email protected], Assistant to the Dean.
