Nearly 200 Salk donors, faculty and trustees celebrated the Campaign for Salk on November 11, 2015 with an evening of music, memories and talks on the Institute’s future as a global research leader. The six-year campaign, the Institute’s first major fundraising effort since opening its doors in the early 1960s, surpassed its $300 million objective of raising private resources to address the decline in federal funding for science and the rising cost of new technologies. The celebratory event included exhibits and videos depicting campaign successes and archival footage of faculty who helped establish the Institute.