Achieve! The Campaign for N.C. State — a historic $1 billion fund-raising effort to elevate N.C. State University to a whole new level of national prominence — successfully closed in June.

For its part of the universitywide campaign, the College of Agriculture of Life Sciences set a goal of $275,000,000. That goal has now been exceeded with donations totaling more than $300 million, which will go to:

• Scholarships and undergraduate support
• Fellowships and graduate support
• Faculty support and professorships
• Faculty research support
• Program development support
• Facilities and equipment support
• Unrestricted support

Noteworthy efforts include:

• The creation of the N.C. Family and Consumer Sciences Foundation, Landscapes of Opportunity, and the N.C. Agricultural and Life Sciences Research Foundation, resulting in significant dollars raised, impacts on critical areas and the large numbers of volunteers who have made these initiatives quickly successful;
• Partnerships with Dole Foods that have created the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis and new professorships in the College;
• The Campaign for Counties, creating endowment and enhancement funds to support Extension efforts in every N.C. county and the Qualla Boundary of the Cherokee Nation;
• The Bobby G. Wilder Visitor Center at the JC Raulston Arboretum, honoring his 1,000+ hours of volunteer service and deferred endowment gifts totalling more than $500,000;
• The Ruby C. McSwain Education Center at the JC Raulston Arboretum, named in honor of her $1.2 million commitment to the Raise the Roof Campaign.  “Ms. Ruby” also provided an additional $232,000 gift of property and has designated an estate gift of $500,000 during the campaign;
• The newly created Ray E. Hollowell Jr. Distinguished Professorship, supporting a preeminent scholar in viticulture and/or enology in the College;
• The donation by the late Bill White to the N.C. Agricultural Foundation Inc. of 56 percent ownership in LaPaz LLC, a sturgeon aquaculture facility, along with a donation of stock to fund a $3.6 million research and demonstration grant;
• A donation by Art and Steve Sandler of Shallotte North LLC of a $35 million, 225-acre conservation easement and $500,000 in monetary and land donations to support endowments at Brunswick County’s San Rio development, a regional education site for environmental studies;
• And so many gifts in all sizes—all great in value to the College.

Thank you to all the donors who have supported the College during the Achieve! Campaign. Your gifts have provided funds for students, faculty, facilities and equipment; for academic research and extension programs; and for urgent or time-sensitive needs as they arose.