Rutgers fundraising up 17%
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Parking fees didn't go up from last year. Also parking fees is revenue, not donations.
She suffers from this rare, incurable disease called foot-in-mouth. It's a form of tourettes.
Thanks for the clarification. Nonetheless, a 17% increase for the quarter is certainly a very good sign.
I believe what people are referring to are the premiums paid for FB seats and parking fees. Not the seat price and parking fees but the additional fees paid to RU for the right to purchase that seat or lot. Those additional fees count as donations and have been a large part of increased donations over the past two years.
Don't forget that the number of stadium seats that required an additional donation has been increased to include more sections and this is expected to continue in the future. Best case would be if all lower level seats or all seats in the stadium required a donation.
I was thinking the same thing. It's been years since I've seen a positive post here remain positive throughout. Smh... a few folks on this board will go to the moon and back to make a negative post. smh.
How do we increase donations?
Convince more people to donate
Convince existing donors to donate more
It would be interesting to see how we are doing on each of these
Which is more important?
Which is our focus?
Which category could each of us fall into?
Convince more people to donate
Convince existing donors to donate more
It would be interesting to see how we are doing on each of these
Which is more important?
Which is our focus?
Which category could each of us fall into?
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the fee for parking three cars in the green lot was $3,000 this Year, and was less the previous... This past year was the first of that fee table they had put out.
Now this might not be what the school figures in as part of any increased revenues, donations, whatever, that I don't know...... But the overall bill for nine tickets and three passes was higher
The required donation was $3000. The fee remained stable at $50 per game.
And since the required donation for this year's parking had to be made before April 30, the donation counts for the previous fiscal year (which ended June 30), not this fiscal year.
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I get many requests for additional donations over the course of a year, as I am sure most ticket holders do..... A big effort should be made to those who never have given, or recently graduated... Hopefully recent grads give a bit each year, if they can afford.
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Ok, just knew stuff went up, don't know what business year things are assigned..... If donations went up not including what we have to pay for lots etc, this is a very good thing
Even if you fast forward to the end of this fiscal year and the increased required donations gets included, it's still a good thing. You don't just brush it off. The first year I agree you get that surge of the B10 but most of the gains have been had and that's why I say that's a sort of baseline. Continuing to build on that is important.
Figuring out how far you can keep pushing the envelope and finding that sweet spot of what the market will bear is also important. So to me you just can't discredit and when compared to the fundraising operations of other schools which we envy. Do they suddenly not count required seat/parking donations in their fundraising calculations? Of course not.
Figuring out how far you can keep pushing the envelope and finding that sweet spot of what the market will bear is also important. So to me you just can't discredit and when compared to the fundraising operations of other schools which we envy. Do they suddenly not count required seat/parking donations in their fundraising calculations? Of course not.
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The required donation is near the tipping point for a few in my group, if it goes up much more we may have to drop down to a less expensive lot.... Hope not
I've always said the key is expanding the pool of donors to local non alums/businesses, previously disinterested alums, etc..
I've said how much more blood can you grind out of the same stone for all these years. The large amount that's going to be given likely has been and continues to be from that same pool. So there's a marginal increase you might get but to really move the needle I think it has to come from new sources. To me it's expanding the pool that will increase the probability of pushing fundraising to another level. It also increases the chance that you might find that new "whale" donor.
This all can be facilitated by winning at a high level. Everybody is always more receptive to giving to a winner and more "newbies" are willing to jump on the bandwagon.
But if there's someone to take your place, while unfortunately it may suck for you it means the market can still bear it and for the AD that's a good thing.
Who the hell cares how the money was raised. Donations are up 17% which is great. Her job is to squeeze every last nickel out of the fan base and based upon the results and the whining she is doing a great job. Keep it up Julie.
As posted a few times already, it was a 17% increase to RU Athletics fundraising YTD, not overall University funding.
Amen
Holy crap - this is supposed to be a message board of our die hard fans
Wow - with 'fans' like this, who the F needs enemies
Some of you people are serious dooshes...
GO JULIE!! WELL DONE TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM THAT IS WORKING THEIR COLLECTIVE @SSES OFF!!! GO RU!!
(there...how hard was that...a-holes)
Yes this is unmitigated positive. Two years in a row double digit jump in fundraising. People are voting with their wallets.
Complains about this is BS. Donations for other schools are extracted from season ticket holders the same way. Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State can easily get more donations with their 100,000 seat stadiums. Rutgers is only copying other schools.
I was told by someone inside that the money is there and the basketball facility will be up much faster than expected.
That was hinted at on the basketball board but that it's hit a little bit of a bump lately. I hope they can get it done, that would be beyond huge for us given our past history.
Of course donations to qualify for premium parking and seating, and to earn priority points, count as donations. That's what they are.
But you seem to not understand the fiscal year. Rutgers fiscal year started July 1st. Donations for this football season's seating and parking were due by April 30th (in the previous fiscal year). Since this information is that year-to-date fundraising is up 17%, it can't include those donations (unless some fans are donating early for next season).
Not sure what is more baffling about some here,how some think a product of increasing value should be had on the cheap or the lack of awareness how big time athletics works.
Borrowed this the BE to ACC decline thread thanks to Queztastic.
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Why Does Alumni Stadium Seem so Empty?
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"Moreover, BC has always been much stricter than other schools about what will be permitted during a tailgate; they have also recently changed their tailgating policy. It is much, much harder (and costly) to get one of the best tailgating spots on campus, otherwise known as Shea Field. The cost of a spot in Shea is $2,500 for a graduate of the last decade (GOLD alumni) and $5,000 for all other alumni. "
Seems pretty cheap compared to the cost (of earning enough priority points through donations) for our premium lots.
This is the obvious answer. Last fiscal year, Rutgers was new in the Big Ten and raising money for the baseball/softball facility. That accounts for last year's bump. This year's bump is due to fundraising for the basketball practice facility. The "hit recently" would explain the 17% increase vs a much larger increase.
We need to see another huge bump in next quarter's year over year total. If so, fundraising is back on track and donors are over the August/September suspensions. If the number remains stable then that will mean that the events and stories in the media created much more long lasting damage to the dept than we were hoping.
So if the goal is to raise donations, and Julie does that by using parking to squeeze more out of our notoriously tight walleted fan base, what, exactly is the negative?
People are acting like it doesn't count if it came from parking donations...not sure why that is. Seems like we all wanted Julie to find a way to raise more donations from the fans, and she has done that.
I guess its typical NJ nimby mentality. We wanted her to raise more money, but not from us. Why can't she get people in Iowa to pay for our basketball facility??? Is that too much to ask?
People are acting like it doesn't count if it came from parking donations...not sure why that is. Seems like we all wanted Julie to find a way to raise more donations from the fans, and she has done that.
I guess its typical NJ nimby mentality. We wanted her to raise more money, but not from us. Why can't she get people in Iowa to pay for our basketball facility??? Is that too much to ask?
I think the season would explain more. People like going to WP in fall. When I first posted, tickets were $40 for Bucknell - a team you could see vs Fordham for $10 in a couple weeks. The Army/Bucknell ticket is now $80. Last week Duke was $100 during its last last week on Stubhub. Its hard for me to think of RU vs Nebraska going for $30 and OSU now down to $70 -with Maryland, Norfolk and Washington going for $6-12. A seasons worth of tickets could be cheaper on Stubhub than from RU (4 games alone for under $50 combined) . I think the BTN network could be a factor. Army games are only on CBSCS while people can see RU games on BTN.
