A fiscal year 2017 budget approved by Sweet Briar College’s Board of Directors during the weekend calls for $20 million in gifts to operate the college — out of an about $33 million total operating budget.
Reached Tuesday, Sweet Briar College Board Chairwoman Teresa Pike Tomlinson said the budgeted amount for donations doesn’t come as a surprise, as board members have been looking at a $20 million figure in budget drafts as early as January.
If achieved, it would rival the combined total of more than $22 million raised by the group Saving Sweet Briar in 2015 and the college itself between fall 2015 and July 2016.
