EACUBO vs HuskyTHON

The Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO) held its first meeting in November 1920 at Johns Hopkins University. Sixteen institutions came together to associate with other members of their guild, to discuss their common problems and to seek out better ways to do the things that had to be done. Today our membership consists of 630 institutions of higher education and we continue to come together to share, network and provide professional development. Average attendance at our spring Annual Workshop and our fall Annual Meeting is more than 500 attendees. We also serve over 1000 business officers through our locally sponsored one day drive in workshops.

With its start in 1999, HuskyTHON at the University of Connecticut has grown into the largest student-run philanthropy in New England. Fundraising events are held year round, which culminates into an 18-hour dance marathon. Over 2,000 participants and 50 patient families from Connecticut Children's dance the night away, waiting for the total reveal in the final hour. In 2016, HuskyTHON raised over $716,000, and Connecticut Children's named the hospital's newest addition in honor of HuskyTHON's success: the HuskyTHON Center of Procedural Excellence, which opened last spring. HuskyTHON is a part of Miracle Network Dance Marathons, which is a network of over 350 dance marathons at universities nationwide benefiting their local Children's Miracle Network hospital.