
2022 INSTITUTIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Pride and support


Announcing our most ambitious campaign yet
This fall, the university launched Experience Powered by Northeastern, our most far-reaching, innovative campaign yet. In the coming five years, our university community will seek to raise $1.3 billion, elevating both fundraising and engagement. Supporters will connect with the university and each other in a multitude of ways, including mentorship, advocacy, and traditional philanthropy.
Celebrating experience
This year, gifts large and small supported high-impact experiences in learning, discovery, and innovation across the global university system, empowering Northeastern’s students, faculty, and partners.
$99.2M
in gifts and pledges, 2020-2021
High-impact giving
23,069
individual donors from 72 countries, including 10,288 first-time donors
634
corporations and foundations made gifts and pledges of $63M
The donor universe
Gifts that drive innovation

Powering women’s ingenuity and impact
This spring, the second annual Women Who Empower Innovator Awards event honored 22 women inventors and entrepreneurs. Philanthropic supporters of this program, including Cathy Papoulias-Sakellaris, and Richard and Michelle Shan Jeschelnig, made gifts to enable prizes totaling $220,000 to these innovators. More than 135 competitors were judged on the basis of innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, authenticity, community and inclusion, and track record.

Fellows for pharmas
Across the U.S., pharmacists are in short supply. That’s why Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Ipsen Bioscience Inc., and Blueprint Medicines have each made gifts to fund two-year doctoral fellowships that will bring Northeastern students into these companies. Successful graduates will be prepared to step into permanent industry positions. In Boston, a hotbed for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Northeastern runs the country’s third-largest pharmacy doctoral fellowship program.

Helping private institutions solve public problems
The Burnes Center for Social Change, founded with a $20 million pledge from late trustee emerita Nonnie Burnes, L’78, H’07, and her husband, Rick Burnes, aims to advance society through education, research, and activism. The center’s advocates include Edward Meehan, MA’79, who launched the Burnes Corporate Accelerator for Solving Public Problems with a gift of $100,000. The accelerator promotes social change by engaging private-sector organizations in addressing public-sector problems.
Gifts that nurture future generations
Support for community

Giving Day sets a record
On Northeastern’s fifth annual Giving Day, the university’s global community raised a record $3 million for students, faculty, research, and special programs. More than 7,500 donors from 29 countries contributed to the in-person and virtual 24-hour fundraising effort, supporting priorities from global co-op to women’s rowing. Potential donors were challenged to meet specific fundraising goals to benefit student groups, including the LGBTQA Resource Center, Disability Resource Center, and Hillel.

Honoring our volunteer leaders
Northeastern celebrated eight university advocates and philanthropists at Networked for Life, its annual volunteer leadership summit. The Presidential Medallion was bestowed posthumously upon trustee emerita Nonnie Burnes, L’78, H’07. Distinguished Service Awards went to Thomas McDonough, DMSB’71, and Ann, CJ’77, and Shelley Stewart Jr., CJ’75, MJ’78, while Emerging Leader Awards recognized Molly Beck, DMSB’09, Khoury’22, and Lamar Letts, DMSB’17. Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Richard Harris, E’89, MS’08, received the Impact Award, and University Distinguished Professor Richard Daynard garnered the Pioneer Award.

Strengthening ties with Africa
With support from a growing cadre of partners, Northeastern’s Africa Global Initiative is increasing student enrollment from African countries through the African Students Access Scholarship. The initiative, chaired by College of Science Dean Hazel Sive, is also boosting experiential learning, research, and employment opportunities for African students and alumni. In 2021, AGI hosted workshops and lectures—including Women Who Empower: Africa, a conversation with female entrepreneurs from Kenya and Tanzania—and held 20 student engagement activities in Africa. Above, students David Femi Lamptey and Nita Akoh partner with AGI as leaders of the Northeastern African Student Organization.
Our alumni and community network
300,000+
alumni live and work in 181 countries
49
Northeastern communities on 4 continents, Asia, Europe, North and South America
11,500+
participants from 149 countries engaged in 337 programs and events