JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — An additional $750,000 has been raised to help establish a medical school in Joplin.

The money comes from the Joplin Tomorrow fund, which was established to help businesses recover from the deadly 2011 tornado.

Plans call for the osteopathic medical school to open in 2017 as a campus of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.

Joplin Tomorrow president Dwight Douglas says the organization raised about $1.6 million and was looking for the best way to spend the money that remained. He says the organization determined that the capital campaign was “the best way to continue to help the business community.”

Fundraising officials say that with the gift, about $24 million of a previously established $30 million goal has been raised.