(12-05-2015 10:15 PM)Barney Wrote:  

(12-04-2015 11:49 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Just arrived in the mail today. Lot's of interesting tid bits (including a nice pictorial of what your donation money provides), but several VERY disturbing items jumped out....

1. Despite achieving all-time highs in participation rate (1,258 individual donors) and total contributions ($2.3MM as previously reported), non-athletic alumni donors totaled only 563. That's downright embarrassing. And looking through the donor honor roll, there are many, many alums, who were and continue to be avid sports fans who are not giving to the Owl Club. There are also 488 former letterwinner donors, but given who and what the Owl Club supports, one would expect a considerably higher participation rate from amongst former student-athletes.

I saw this same number Walt (563 non-athlete alumni donors), and did a very rough estimation from it.....approx. 2% of living non-athlete graduates.....meaning I'm the perhaps the only one of my class, from my college, to be a donor. And every indication suggests that this percentage will fall substantially, with declining student body interest.

This sums up exactly why I have been beating the we-are-irrelevant-and-need-to-act-now drum over and over again