Here For Good
The University of West Florida announced on Friday that it was increasing its goal for its Here For Good capital campaign from $90 million to $100 million. In the spring, the UWF campaign webpage featured a graph showing that UWF had reached 90% of its goal—about $81 million. We were also told UWF had commitments that would be announced later in 2025 that would reach or top $100 million.
History Lesson
The Here For Good campaign was launched in April 2024, with the announcement of a new football stadium coming to campus.
Darrell and Debbie Gooden made a gift in excess of $9 million to break ground on the Darrell Gooden Stadium. The transformative gift was the largest by a living donor in UWF history. Darrell Gooden studied accounting at UWF and attributed a significant portion of his professional success to his college education.
The gift from the Goodens helped the university raise $65 million during the silent phase of the campaign, easily surpassing the initial goal of $55 million. Saunders announced that the fundraising goal would be $90 million, the largest campaign in the university’s nearly 60-year history…