We have had quite a few people criticize what we produce on the court. And I have heard about lack of alumni giving as being a major obstacle. But I realized just how bad it was when looking at my 49er club donation reminders.
When I read the reminders and looking at the rankings and member numbers, we currently have approximately 10,000 members who gave or give to the Athletics Department. $500 currently ranks a person as around the 1,000th top giver. How many people have we had graduate? And only 1,000 people have given more in their lifetime (not per year) than $500? Does this number bother anyone?
How can we criticize a program that as a community we are not supporting? So this is a plea, if we’re sitting on this board complaining, we only have to look at our alumni base for the answer to many problems.
We have had quite a few people criticize what we produce on the court. And I have heard about lack of alumni giving as being a major obstacle. But I realized just how bad it was when looking at my 49er club donation reminders.
When I read the reminders and looking at the rankings and member numbers, we currently have approximately 10,000 members who gave or give to the Athletics Department. $500 currently ranks a person as around the 1,000th top giver. How many people have we had graduate? And only 1,000 people have given more in their lifetime (not per year) than $500? Does this number bother anyone?
How can we criticize a program that as a community we are not supporting? So this is a plea, if we’re sitting on this board complaining, we only have to look at our alumni base for the answer to many problems.
what???
if we had 10,000 foundation members, we would be rolling in dough
we have +/- 1000 members (as defined by someone who gave the current year)
if we had 10,000 foundation members, we would be rolling in dough
we have +/- 1000
there are 73000 living alum
It’s not 10,000 big members. It’s just my number indicates we have 10,000 people in the system. For all I know, it could be 10,000 people have bought a ticket before.
EDIT: 1 in 73 by your calculation is even a worse giving rate.
It's not 10,000 big members. It's just my number indicates we have 10,000 people in the system. For all I know, it could be 10,000 people have bought a ticket before.
buying a ticket does not put you in the “donor” list
like I said, our foundation hovers at about 1000 per year…I suspect we pick up 100 donors each year and lose 100 donors for no net gain
It's not 10,000 big members. It's just my number indicates we have 10,000 people in the system. For all I know, it could be 10,000 people have bought a ticket before.
EDIT: 1 in 73 by your calculation is even a worse giving rate.
its not my calculation, I know for a fact how many foundation members exist vs alumni, they are both facts.
buying a ticket does not put you in the "donor" list
like I said, our foundation hovers at about 1000 per year…I suspect we pick up 100 donors each year and lose 100 donors for no net gain
no way in hell we’ve had 10,000 total donors.
I’d love for you to quote exactly your source.
Hey, not trying to knock you. I guessed we have a sequential number allocation system for our membership numbers to the 49er club. Is that correct? Do we skip numbers? I got my number last year. It was approximately 9,300.
A friend’s donation reminder has him as giving $500 over his total membership. The reminder shows his rank as approximately 1,080.
Those are my numbers. I would be glad to hear if it’s different. Not trying to spark an argument with you, but my logic made me sad to think how low giving is.
[QUOTE=cakewalk5;308306]It’s not 10,000 big members. It’s just my number indicates we have 10,000 people in the system. For all I know, it could be 10,000 people have bought a ticket before.
EDIT: 1 in 73 by your calculation is even a worse giving rate. :([/QUOTE]
The system they use may randomly select numbers
[QUOTE=metro;308310]buying a ticket does not put you in the “donor” list
like I said, our foundation hovers at about 1000 per year…I suspect we pick up 100 donors each year and lose 100 donors for no net gain
no way in hell we’ve had 10,000 total donors.[/QUOTE]
QFT.
as I posted several weeks ago…
[QUOTE]A quick glance at the 49er Club membership (from the game program) shows 1127 donors. The count is close but may be off a few. Keep in mind that many, many of these are not alumni.
Gold Dust ($49-$149) - 523 donors
Miner ($150-$249) - 132 donors
Forty-Niner ($250-$499) - 163 donors
Gold Nugget ($500-$1,499) - 171 donors
Green Jacket ($1,500-$2,499) - 124 donors
Golden Plus ($2,500-$4,999) - 82 donors
Golden Advantage ($5,000-$8,499) - 44 donors
Coaches Circle ($8,500-$12,499) - 12 donors
Golden Scholarship ($12,500+) - 8 donors[/QUOTE]
The giving rate among alumni in any amount/any department back to the Universtiy is 5.4% (4,000 out of 73,000).
The giving rate among alumni in any amount/any department back to the Universtiy is 5.4% (4,000 out of 73,000).
Thanks for the info HP. Can’t believe about 500 people give more than $250 a year. If I remember from the guide, weren’t the top 20 mostly businesses or groups instead of laumni.
[QUOTE=cakewalk5;308295]We have had quite a few people criticize what we produce on the court. And I have heard about lack of alumni giving as being a major obstacle. But I realized just how bad it was when looking at my 49er club donation reminders.
When I read the reminders and looking at the rankings and member numbers, we currently have approximately 10,000 members who gave or give to the Athletics Department. $500 currently ranks a person as around the 1,000th top giver. How many people have we had graduate? And only 1,000 people have given more in their lifetime (not per year) than $500? Does this number bother anyone?
How can we criticize a program that as a community we are not supporting? So this is a plea, if we’re sitting on this board complaining, we only have to look at our alumni base for the answer to many problems.[/QUOTE]
These facts are the prupose for several posts I have made over the past months concerning donations. Alumni need to give. Kevin even started a poll. Considering how strongly some people on here feel about athletics and how critical they can be, we were interested to find out how many on here actually give. Right now is the time to remind all graduating seniors that it is easy to join the 49er Club and something that should not be overlooked.
Some people might give to Academic Depts., the traffic ticket dept., different on-campus clubs, non-varsity sports, etc., & it wouldn’t show on the 49er Club.
[B]BTW, if you are reading this and are waiting for football to start donating and/or you think we need a different coach, STOP WAITING.[/B] We need to show Phil we will support our programs and add to that for football. And as for a coach, 49er Club donations feed to a better coach’s salary.
[QUOTE=ChevEE;308340][B]BTW, if you are reading this and are waiting for football to start donating and/or you think we need a different coach, STOP WAITING.[/B] We need to show Phil we will support our programs and add to that for football. And as for a coach, 49er Club donations feed to a better coach’s salary.
5.4% is pitiful.[/QUOTE]
Yep, just got my thank you letter. Wish it could have been more, but with #2 on the way gotta have priorities.
Hey, not trying to knock you. I guessed we have a sequential number allocation system for our membership numbers to the 49er club. Is that correct? Do we skip numbers? I got my number last year. It was approximately 9,300.
A friend’s donation reminder has him as giving $500 over his total membership. The reminder shows his rank as approximately 1,080.
Those are my numbers. I would be glad to hear if it’s different. Not trying to spark an argument with you, but my logic made me sad to think how low giving is.
sorry to jump in your shorts, I just wanted it to be clear there is no way in hell we have 10,000 donors, and season tix do not count. Its what you give in addition to tix.
