UMKC Capital Campaign Roars Past Goal

Seven years ago, the Campaign for UMKC launched with an ambitious goal of raising $250 million. Today, officials announced, that the University of Missouri-Kansas City had surged past that mark by more than 20 percent, with $302,534,370 raised.

The university celebrated news of that success by gathering campaign co-chairs Bob Regnier and Tom Hyde, Chancellor Leo Morton, UMKC Foundation President Steven Norris and other officials across the university’s two campuses. Among the major building projects funded by the campaign. the university said in a news release, are the $32 million Bloch Executive Hall, and two projects under the Missouri 50-50 matching program for public-private partnerships: the $14.8 million Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center and the $96 million Downtown Campus for the Arts.

“Now it is up to us, as students, faculty and staff, to make the most of this wonderful investment that our community has made in us,” Morton said at the celebration. “We have a responsibility to leverage this investment to ensure it creates the maximum impact possible on the lives of people in our community, now and long into the future.”