The joint fundraising campaign between Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and its hospital and health system has hit the halfway mark, as the institutions have raised $2.25 billion as of early November, according to a Baltimore Business Journal report.
The $2.25 billion comes from more than 162,000 donors, leaving the fundraising effort "way ahead of projections," according to the report. Johns Hopkins has said campaign planners initially expected to reach the halfway mark in spring 2014.
Johns Hopkins' "Rising to the Challenge" capital campaign, the university's largest to date, launched in January 2010. Of the $4.5 billion total funds, $2.4 billion is slated for Johns Hopkins Medicine, which includes the university's six affiliated hospitals. The remaining $2.1 billion will go toward the university.
Johns Hopkins is aiming to complete the fundraising in 2017, according to the report.
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