For the second time in three years Missouri State University has won national recognition for its fundraising success. Missouri State won an “Overall Performance Award” in the 2011 CASE Educational Fundraising Awards program. The award honors “superior fundraising programs” across the country as part of the CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Circle of Excellence program.

“We are very honored to receive this national award,” said Brent Dunn, vice president for university advancement. “I credit our alumni and development staff, our Foundation Board of Directors and the thousands of donors that volunteer their financial resources and support higher education. I also credit our entire university family who provide a great education. Ultimately it is our students that benefit from the generosity of the support.”

Missouri State was selected for the award based on an analysis of fundraising data. A panel of judges selected winners based on several factors, including a pattern of growth in total support, overall breadth in program areas, pattern of donor growth, the impact of the 12 largest gifts on total support and more.

Missouri State was one of only 24 colleges or universities in the country to be recognized with an “Overall Performance Award” based on the judges’ analysis of three years of fundraising data that was supplied to the Council for Aid to Education’s annual Voluntary Support of Education Survey.

In the public comprehensive institutions category, other winners include Boise State University (Idaho); California State University, Fresno; Longwood University (Va.); and Western Kentucky University.