College of Global Futures
Kelly and Brian Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems
Kelly and Brian Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems
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Learn more about your impact
As an investor in the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, you're supporting a broad range of activities and empowering the work of 60-plus faculty members along with students and staff. Because of you, we're able to engage in food-related work that's dedicated to achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals by creating and disseminating knowledge about food systems that drive economic productivity and social progress.
Impact of Donor Support
- More learners can pursue higher education. In 2022, 22,000 donors contributed $66.3 million for scholarships.
- More students succeed. ASU ranks #1 among the states public universities for its 86% first-year retention rate thanks in part to donor-funded student success initiatives.
- And donors helped ASU offer more than 4,500 hours of free tutoring.
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We choose to invest in ASU because of its agility, speed and focus on innovation. The Swette Center engages in cross-disciplinary research and collaborates with many partners, including private sector leaders, to create food systems change.