Let’s say you are given $1,000 a day. How long would it take to collect $1 billion?
Exactly 2,737 years, 10 months, 7 days.*
Remarkably, at Indiana University Bloomington, you can take off more than 2,731 years from that answer.
The billion-dollar milestone for the Matching the Promise campaign was passed July 31, 2009, when total gifts reached $1,007,189,749.
When the seven-year campaign was launched in 2003, the original goal was set at $1 billion. “This is momentous, meeting the original campaign goal a full year before we had planned,” said IU President Michael A. McRobbie.
"We took a bold step last winter when we redoubled our efforts and increased the Matching the Promise overall goal to $1.1 billion," McRobbie added. "With the tremendous generosity of our donors, we are encouraged that this ambitious new goal is now in sight," the president said.
“We’re coming down the home stretch,” said Gene Tempel, president of the IU Foundation. “This is the time when we ask our alumni and our friends to rally ’round to help us complete the final drive. At the end, we will have added substantially to IU Bloomington’s excellence on all fronts.”
Now let’s say it took you six years to achieve 91.56% of your goal. How long would it take you to reach 100%? Stay tuned. 
*Bill Chapman’s Classroom Tools: www.classroomtools.com
