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Mike Coleman
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  Message Not Read  Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/28/2011 2:45:09 PM 
http://www.ohiobobcats.com/MultiPurposeCenter/
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Ryan Carey
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/28/2011 2:51:38 PM 
Deleting in 3, 2, 1.



See, was it that hard to wait 10 days until they put out the official brochure?

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Bobcat36
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/28/2011 4:32:29 PM 
Ryan Carey wrote:
Deleting in 3, 2, 1.



HA!

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/28/2011 8:41:25 PM 
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/28/2011 9:20:02 PM 
I just donated $500 GO BOBCATS.
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Monroe Slavin
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 2:08:44 AM 
Ryan Carey wrote:
Deleting in 3, 2, 1.



See, was it that hard to wait 10 days until they put out the official brochure?


No. This is a quasi-public forum.  WIth a following of perhaps 50 or so regulars. Hardly anyone at all.  It hardly would have been doing damage to allow a little bit of exercise of freedom of speech and information.

I just don't get it.  Especially given that about all here support the IPF, only arguing about the details.

Last Edited: 9/29/2011 2:09:23 AM by Monroe Slavin

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 9:26:37 AM 
Monroe Slavin wrote:
Ryan Carey wrote:
Deleting in 3, 2, 1.



See, was it that hard to wait 10 days until they put out the official brochure?


No. This is a quasi-public forum.  WIth a following of perhaps 50 or so regulars. Hardly anyone at all.  It hardly would have been doing damage to allow a little bit of exercise of freedom of speech and information.

I just don't get it.  Especially given that about all here support the IPF, only arguing about the details.


IMHO, all anyone needs to know is that OUr Athletic Dept asked Ryan for a favor that he granted.  It's how mutually beneficial relationships are formed / sustained.  We're all after the same end goal and the AD obviously felt this situation was tenuous enough to put that request out.

OUr Marketing efforts are growing slowly and with the launch of biggest development for Ohio Athletics since Coach Solich was hired hanging in the balance, I for one don't think their request was unreasonable in the least...Especially considering the radical faculty contingent that's in play.

This is a HUGE step for Ohio Athletics and the Administration should absolutely have been granted the ability to get this communication out on their own terms... 

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 9:40:54 AM 
Purpose Statement - Just a phenominal job writing this!

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/MultiPurposeCenter/mpc-purpose.html

My favorite quote:

"The success of our athletics programs have also generated national exposure which has assisted in imprinting the name of Ohio University throughout the Country.  This publicity helps to enhance student enrollment, alumni relations, institutional fundraising, campus pride and the regional community." 

Last Edited: 9/29/2011 9:44:20 AM by Bobcat36

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Pete Chouteau
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 12:09:17 PM 
Well, thank goodness nobody's bitter about things... let's move on.

There is a great opportunity here for people to be a part of this that can't be discounted or minimized.

I've never been a person that has the capacity to cut a check for $1000 to an endowment like this.

However, a minimum $200 annual pledge for 5 years will get my name up on the wall for perpetuity. And that's an amount I can get my hands and finances on board with.

There's certainly an amount of ego stroking involved with that. But it works on me.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 12:54:08 PM 
Pete Chouteau wrote:

I've never been a person that has the capacity to cut a check for $1000 to an endowment like this.

However, a minimum $200 annual pledge for 5 years will get my name up on the wall for perpetuity. And that's an amount I can get my hands and finances on board with.

There's certainly an amount of ego stroking involved with that. But it works on me.


Ditto

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 1:11:28 PM 
why, why, why is there no IMMEDIATE "donate now" link on ANY of the webpages having to do with the center?  Most people I know don't write many checks any more, they make their donations on line.  And virtually every nonprofit I've come across has a "donate now" button--big and bold--on their initial webpage.   Whatever you wanna call it---marketing, immediate response, impulse--it's a tool EVERYONE uses.  Everyone but us!

I wanna make a credit card donation...the site says they're accepted  But there is NO WAY TO MAKE ONE!    Instead, I'm told to make a long distance call to Athens "to make a gift or obtain further information."  Glad to know we are not entirely living in the 1980s, because there is an email address also.

Here I am with my credit card out, ready to donate, and its like YOU DON"T WANT IT.

Also, is this tax deductable?  There's no indication that I can find one way or another.  If it is tax deductable, SAY SO.  If it isn't at least say so in small print so dummies like me won't try to claim it.

I'm extremely frustrated that this has not been thought through and double checked more thoroughly.  If this was done in house without the expertise of a professional fund raiser, it shows!

I don't wanna say this is amateur hour, but... 


Last Edited: 9/29/2011 1:24:59 PM by brucecuth
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anorris
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 1:45:40 PM 
I have to say I find it amusing in a post arguing for allowing online donations and not writing checks mentioning a "long-distance" phone call, as though it is somehow more difficult/expensive than a local one.

However, online donation would be a grand idea for picking up what would likely be smaller, impulse donations.
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Ryan Carey
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 2:17:51 PM 
The university only allows online credit card donations OF ANY KIND through their http://www.ohioalumni.org/give website.

At least now when you designate where your donation goes, you have the option of picking "The Ohio Bobcat Club (Intercollegiate Athletics)."  For a long time, you had to blindly guess a donation to "Athletics" would actually get applied to your OBC account.

I think they should update the website with a button to donate now and provide instructions to pick OBC from the dropdown list.  Ideally they would get the MPC added to the list of where you can designate your donation...but knowing how things work in higher edu, it would probably take somebody 2 months to get that dropdown list updated.  At the least, they should add some text to inform users to "select OBC, then email us @ ??? so we know your donation is for MPC."

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Pete Chouteau
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 2:58:03 PM 
Wow... you'd think we still had to walk up the hill to Chubb Hall to pay the monthly dorm phone bill or something.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 6:44:15 PM 
That's a nice picture.  I'm trying to recall where I saw it 
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/29/2011 10:03:15 PM 
The reason why (I suspect) is that online credit card transactions would cost the university money.

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/30/2011 8:22:30 AM 
Not a bad reason.  A number of vendors of large dollar items refuse CC payment for the same reason.  Why give up 2 - 3% of the transaction for the "benefit" of a week's float on the money?
 
It might have been different when securities made positive short term returns and cash investments weren't paying just 0.25%.
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   Posted: 9/30/2011 9:09:43 AM 
I am expecting the teachers on this board, including Bobcat Squared, to donate a portion of their $3,000 to $5,000 annual raises.


 
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/30/2011 10:43:24 AM 
Bobcatbob wrote:
Not a bad reason.  A number of vendors of large dollar items refuse CC payment for the same reason.  Why give up 2 - 3% of the transaction for the "benefit" of a week's float on the money?
 
It might have been different when securities made positive short term returns and cash investments weren't paying just 0.25%.


This could lead to an interesting, but endless, debate.  I'd rather have the money now, have the certainty of cash in hand, even at the expense of the fees.  Perhaps ask for donations to be a bit higher, explaining the fees come out.

Can we get a break on the servicers' rates based on volume (tuition payments?, use of banks' card to pay the University's bills)?

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   Posted: 9/30/2011 10:50:54 AM 
Monroe,

I've always kind of wondered about this as well. Obviously, it's easier for me as a giver to pay via credit card. But I've never known if it's the best thing for the charity. I don't mind writing a check and putting a stamp on it if it means the charity gets a bigger bang from my bucks. I would hope for a large amount that there's a flat fee. Because there are still some costs associated with checks (someone to handle them or lockbox service), it could be that credit cards are more efficient and cost-effective. If you factor in the loss of the impulse donation, the credit card could have a better overall ROI even if you're not getting the most yield from each donation.

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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising for Multipurpose Center
   Posted: 9/30/2011 11:44:33 AM 
Bobcatbob wrote:
Not a bad reason.  A number of vendors of large dollar items refuse CC payment for the same reason.  Why give up 2 - 3% of the transaction for the "benefit" of a week's float on the money?


There's often an additional fee for online transactions, too. Sure, $3 doesn't sound like much, but when you get hundreds or thousands of donations...

It could be university policy and athletics has no control of it. That's pure speculation.

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   Posted: 9/30/2011 11:55:02 AM 
I expressed an interest in donating (via email) and received a call from Rob Norris the next morning.  They absolutely encourage folks to use credit cards.


Perhaps the reluctance to use online payments is based on our past issues with data security.
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   Posted: 9/30/2011 1:52:29 PM 
Good point.

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   Posted: 9/30/2011 4:48:47 PM 
First of all, I want to thank the Walter family for their most generous donation to the University to make the facility possible.  It has been donations such as this and in the past by Jody Galbraith Phillips that have contributed to the success we have enjoyed the past couple of years.

I noticed the brochure said this facility would provide a full-length field.  They mentioned the demensions of the field would be 130 x 390 feet.  However, the width of a regulation football field is 160 feet.  I know that each square foot is very expensive and am not sure if other schools have a field that is not regulation width.



Last Edited: 9/30/2011 4:59:06 PM by Bobcat Grad 86
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   Posted: 9/30/2011 10:34:02 PM 
Bobcat Grad 86 wrote:
First of all, I want to thank the Walter family for their most generous donation to the University to make the facility possible.  It has been donations such as this and in the past by Jody Galbraith Phillips that have contributed to the success we have enjoyed the past couple of years.


Amen, Bro!  I'm glad that you have mentioned Jody.  We should never forget all that she did for Ohio athletics.  As I understand it she gave the bulk of the funds for the permanent lights at Peden and also for the replacement turf when the original artificial turf at Peden had to be replaced after only a few years of use.  She also was a strong supporter of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.  Great Ohio lady!

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