2023-2024 Highlights
With your help over the past year, we’ve accomplished an incredible amount of good.
From supporting students, to creating new initiatives and programs, to bringing people together to create a collective impact. Here are some of the highlights.
Impact by the Numbers
New Scholarships
New Bursaries
New Student Experience Funds
Mobilizing Supporters for Good
Giving Tuesday Recap
Donors are part of our efforts to mobilize change as you give through Carleton toward initiatives that make a positive difference locally and globally. And while we work together to create positive impact all year round, there is no greater display of collective purpose and momentum than on Giving Tuesday.
Giving Tuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering that takes place every year after Cyber Monday. At Carleton, it has become a rallying point—a day where the entire community comes together to do some good. Giving Tuesday 2023, which took place on November 28, was no exception.
In 24 hours, members of the Carleton community made 1745 gifts that totalled $1.1 million, with $60,000 being raised in the first five minutes of the day. The total was matched by Carleton to create $2.2 million in support of 76 champion-led campaigns and over 1000 giving funds that were live on FutureFunder, Carleton’s crowdfunding platform.
Hours
Gifts
Giving Funds
Campaigns
Raised
Of Impact
Race for Good Recap
Efforts to spotlight the power and impact of community giving continued after Giving Tuesday. On November 30, students, staff and faculty leading philanthropic initiatives through FutureFunder competed in Carleton's second annual Race for Good to win funding for their causes. The five selected teams represented diverse on-campus projects including the Books Arts Lab in the MacOdrum Library, the Carleton University Choir, Alternative Spring Break, the Carleton Debating Society and the MEDs Capstone Research Project in Engineering.
In this ‘Amazing Race’ style event, teams completed community-aligned challenges at partner sites across the city in an effort to win the grand prize of $10,000 toward their initiative.
Watch the recap video to see highlights from the day and learn which team crossed the finish line first:
5 Years of the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC)
The Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) is celebrating its fifth academic year anniversary this spring 2024. The beautiful downtown heritage building is an ever-evolving mecca of arts and learning activity being presented by both university and community groups. In 2023-2024 alone, 14 Carleton academic courses for students, and hundreds of events including concerts, conferences and lectures were hosted, welcoming over 60,000 guests through the doors. CDCC opened “The Hive,” a special collection of small meeting and practice rooms that are booked online, and has deepened its commitment to improving accessibility in the historic building through donor-supported enhancements such as new door operators. The centre was also honoured to host the state funeral for the Honourable Ed Broadbent, who shared our sense of civic responsibility and commitment to social values.
The CDCC’s activities and ability to serve the broader community over the past five years have been made possible by the generosity of donors who believe in the power of arts and culture to strengthen our communities and social fabric.
