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2026 Campaign Impact Report

Momentum for GO Beyond 

Sustaining success at Lehigh requires committed individuals and a growth mindset. Lehigh has both in abundance. The 2026 fiscal year (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026) was the most successful fundraising year since the campaign launch. This report captures all that happened across the institution thanks to your commitment to the Lehigh Strategy and GO Beyond: The Campaign for Future Makers. Your engagement and gifts made an impact across key areas:

  • Alumni Engagement
  • Annual Giving
  • Athletics
  • Parent Giving
  • Planned Giving
  • Research
  • Corporate and Foundation Relations
  • Campus and Community
  • Global Lehigh
  • Colleges
Go Beyond the Campaign for Future Makers

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Strategy & Vision

Success comes as no accident. It’s the result of a clear strategy, a bold vision, and a steadfast community. Lehigh is thriving. Rather than standing still to celebrate ourselves, we will continue our momentum to fulfill our strategy and define our future.
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Joseph J. Helble

So many of you continue to step forward to make a gift, offer advice, mentor students, and launch careers. It illustrates your commitment to Lehigh and the students who define today’s experience at South Mountain. It still demands the same grit, pragmatism, innovation, drive, and resolve as it did back in my day.

Joseph J. Helble ’82, President of Lehigh University

Go Beyond: By the Numbers

Campaign as of June 30, 2026

Data Columns Section

$1.098

toward $1.25 billion

70,389

donors

55%

of alumni engaged through events, volunteering, networking, fundraising, and digital interactions

2nd

best fundraising year in the university’s history

Growth & Drive

Your sustained support of Lehigh helps put Lehigh talent and knowledge into practice. You hold us up and cheer us on. You are the reason GO Beyond: The Campaign for Future Makers continues to make a meaningful impact and propel this institution forward.
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Carol Packard

These are exciting times. Such vision demands that we communicate our strategy, develop clear plans, and find partners who share our beliefs and then, of course, support those ideas with their time, talent, and investment.

Carol Packard, Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations

Notable Highlights for 2026

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This year saw gifts for scholarships and financial aid in addition to support for First Year Rossin Engineering, the head football coach, the executive director of the Zoellner Arts Center, endowed chair for architecture, AI, and the College of Health experiential learning fund.

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Ten new Soaring Together scholars joined Lehigh, bringing the total number of scholars to 54. Those students benefit from the full-tuition scholarship and financial support for experiential learning programs. And Giving Day + March Mania eclipsed its goal for its third successful year.

The elevation of the arts. A dedication of the renovated Clayton University Center. A new Future Makers Speaker Series that featured successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and aerospace pioneer, Jared Isaacman. Lehigh had many notable moments in 2026.

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Two women in wrestling gear crouch down and prepare to lock hands.

In This Image: Lehigh crowned its first NCAA champion when Audrey Jimenez won the title during the team’s inaugural season as the 26th varsity sport.

A group of people ascend a hillside trail where a tree with a sign shares information on a new park.

In This Image: Lehigh opened a public hiking trail within its newly designated 760-acre Forest Park on South Mountain in Bethlehem.

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In This Image: Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions held its inaugural annual symposium, bringing together more than 130 educators and government and industry leaders.

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