UNM Foundation
About
Accelerate New Mexico
We can all feel the energy driving UNM at this pivotal time in our history, so there is no better time to build on that momentum through Accelerate New Mexico. Your philanthropic engagement in our joint future will help create a student experience unique to UNM, attract and retain the best faculty, build innovative new programs, and fuel vital research.
With your help, everything is possible as we embark upon this historic and transformational journey into the future. Together, we can do it because we are Lobos!
Jeffrey S. Todd
President and CEO of the UNM Foundation
Accelerate New Mexico is an investment in people, ideas, and possibilities and in what becomes possible when we move them forward together.
As New Mexico’s flagship university, the University of New Mexico has always been more than a place of learning. It is where students discover their potential, researchers pursue questions that can change lives, faculty inspire new ways of thinking, and communities come together to build a stronger future.
Accelerate New Mexico is our comprehensive campaign to build on that promise. Through philanthropy, we can expand opportunities for students, invest in exceptional faculty, advance research and innovation, strengthen communities, and give UNM the resources to respond boldly to the opportunities and challenges ahead.
This is a consequential moment for UNM and for the communities we serve.
The challenges facing New Mexico are significant, but so are the opportunities. Our state needs talented graduates ready to lead. It needs educators, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, and problem-solvers. It needs research that responds to the realities of our communities and ideas capable of creating new possibilities.
UNM is uniquely positioned to help meet that moment. Accelerate New Mexico gives us the opportunity to build on what is already happening across our campuses and move it forward with greater urgency and ambition. Together, we can remove barriers for students, attract exceptional talent, pursue promising discoveries, strengthen programs, and invest in ideas with the potential to transform lives.
Philanthropy expands what’s possible at UNM.
Private support creates opportunities that traditional funding alone cannot always provide. It can give a student the scholarship that makes a UNM education possible. It can help recruit an extraordinary professor, provide a researcher with the resources to pursue an emerging idea, create transformative learning experiences, or help a promising discovery move from possibility to impact.
Philanthropy gives UNM the flexibility to think bigger, move faster, and invest where the potential for impact is greatest.
Every gift becomes part of something larger: an investment in people whose work, ideas, and experiences will continue creating change long after the gift is made.
Few institutions touch as many parts of New Mexico as UNM.
Our students come from communities throughout the state and around the world. Our graduates become the professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, healthcare providers, researchers, artists, and leaders who strengthen those communities. Our faculty and researchers pursue work that addresses some of the most important questions facing our state while contributing knowledge and discovery with global significance.
When UNM becomes stronger, the impact extends far beyond our campuses. A scholarship can change the trajectory of a family. A faculty member can inspire generations of students. A discovery can become a treatment, a technology, a company, or a solution. An idea that begins here can reach communities throughout New Mexico and ultimately the world.
Every meaningful change begins with someone who believes it is possible.
Someone opens a door. Someone invests in an idea. Someone gives a student an opportunity. Someone provides a researcher with the freedom to explore what comes next. Accelerate New Mexico is an invitation to be that someone.
Together, we can create opportunities that span generations, accelerate discoveries that improve lives, and strengthen a University whose future is inseparable from that of New Mexico.
Be the Reason opportunity becomes achievement.
Be the Reason an idea becomes a breakthrough.
Be the reason that starts at UNM changes what is possible.