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Dean John Boyer and Phil the Phoenix with friends on Giving Day 2023

College dean John W. Boyer, AM'69, PhD'75, and Phil the Phoenix with friends on Giving Day 2023. (Photography by John Zich)

UChicago Giving Day 2023

The annual day of collaborative fundraising by the numbers.

By

Rhonda L. Smith

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The University of Chicago Magazine

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Spring/23

5,830

Number of donors

7,133

Number of gifts

13,381,966

Dollars raised

140+

Number of school, scholarship, community, and program funds that received gifts

39

Countries from which gifts were received

7

Continents from which gifts were received

9,662

Miles between Chicago and farthest donor (near Melbourne, Australia)

550+

Milkshakes given out during Giving Day Shake Day

8

UChicago Giving Days since the first in 2015

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