Tapping into talent
Campus Montréal donors have understood that the future of Montreal and Quebec is critical to the vitality of our large academic community. As globalization accelerates, the challenges we face become increasingly complex. Our university campus is competing with the world’s leading teaching and research institutions.
Campus Montréal is responding to new needs for knowledge in many different fields of expertise. As such, it is a hub where leaders of small, medium and large businesses, alumni, professors, researchers, students, employees and other members of the academic community can plan or support projects, share, discuss and develop solutions that will shape the future of tomorrow’s societies.
Campus Montréal: creating opportunities
Instead of being a place where ideas are put on hold until funding can be secured, Campus Montréal’s philosophy is to be an active creator of opportunities. As such, a number of projects currently in development will materialize as the pace of knowledge accelerates and current and future issues evolve. The synergy produced by this major fundraising campaign will also benefit other projects that have been targeted for financial support by government or industry partners in particular. And ideas will continue to germinate as new challenges emerge.
Campus Montréal leverages donor investments for maximum impact in several ways:
• as private contributions on public commitments (special research projects, infrastructure spending, etc.)
• as philanthropic contributions to fuel research that, unlike most industrial research contracts, creates intellectual property and future economic spin-offs for academia.
• by generating spin-offs from research to benefit other projects in Canada and elsewhere in the world. For example, an environmental researcher interested in the permafrost regions of northern Canada could inform other researchers studying climate change in the African deserts or the Southern Ocean. Campus Montréal professors and researchers are currently involved in more than 800 international projects. Nearly ten per cent of the 64,000 students of our campus are foreign nationals from 150 countries.
Forward-looking donors
We want to treat philanthropists as investors in our society; to consider donors as visionaries. We want to use each dollar as a lever, each investment as a catalyst, and each pledge as a springboard. We want to give donors the opportunity to be involved in change, here and elsewhere. These are the goals we are striving towards with the Campus Montréal fundraising campaign.
Be a part of Campus Montréal. Looking ahead to the future.
