Redbirds Rising: The Campaign For Illinois State is a comprehensive fundraising campaign with a goal of raising $150 million to move Illinois State University into the future.  As part of the campaign, Illinois State Athletics will be looking to meet a goal of raising $34 million to improve our department.  The success of the campaign will help build upon the past success of our department, and continue that success well into the future.  The campaign will focus on three main areas that will help our athletics department continue to produce champions in the classroom and in competition. 

The first area is building new and updating current athletic facilities.  The second area of focus will be growing our existing endowment.  The third area will be  to grow our external engagement by increasing the number of donors and season ticket holders to ISU Athletics.  As you can see in the gallery below, we have a need for an indoor facility, which could come in many different shapes and sizes, we have a need for a new study center to help give us a chance to retain and recruit quality STUDENT-athletes, we have a need for more endowed scholarships and bequests, and we have a need to take ISU Athletics to the next level in many different ways.  
This campaign will determine our future and our $34 million goal is not a wish, it is an expectation.

Please click on the gallery below and take a look at what we view to be the plan for our department as part of
​Redbirds Rising: The Campaign For Illinois State.