November 11, 2011 - Skeeter Bird, Northwestern Foundation CEO, announced the Northwestern Foundation fiscal year 2011 closed with a record amount of dollars received in support of the university and its students. More than 800 donors, including 54 percent of faculty and staff, gave $3,555,356.17 during the last fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011.