In_The_662
Deeeeep In The Delta.....
I tell my frat brothers at homecoming....you come with the drinks etc....instead of buying $200 worth of liquor write a check to the school. We spend money on what we want to spend money on...it's real easy to give back.
It really is.
I have been going hard in our Facebook group about not having to give back the big $5000 donations but $10-$20 a month. If you got 5,000 alums giving back $100/year, it's not huge but it's a start. A Valley alum who worked at the school told us that corporations don't care about the amount but the percentage. If they look at a donor list and see that only 9-10% of your alums are giving back, it's gonna be hard to convince them to write a million dollar check to your school.
But it goes back to the bolded. People spend their money on what they want to. It's hard to tell them what to do with money that they worked for. BUT at the same time, as I have to remind them, you can't let a not-rich alum like me be active in the alumni association and do little stuff out of pocket for the school without seeking recognition but you're making 80-100K a year and not active but complaining about why we are playing North Dakota State. If you bought season tickets like you are supposed to, we wouldn't have to play them.