(01-27-2024 11:44 AM)wmmii Wrote:  The College primary purpose of the All In campaign when announced was to raise capital fund of 33M. Sadly the design of the campaign also incorporated annual fundraising and the focus of the fundraising staff got diverted to meet those goals

Added to this was two Executive Director leaving the post over the campaign probably the results of being ineffective
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Also add:
1. Lack of effective communication--strike that, lack of any communication--about the practice facility timelines and plans.
2. Several false starts, including the premature announcement of the project, leading people to believe that it was fully funded.
3. Ridiculous sport-specific giving focus
4. The asinine and capricious disbanding of the Fast Break Club.
5. No transparency--even to those of us who had a seat on the W&M Athletics Foundation Board and asked specific questions about the project.

W&M has a Donor's Bill of Rights. The first one listed is:
To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.

The All-In Campaign started out as a quasi-capital campaign to secure the future of the program, but it ended up being a fund to get us through to the next meal. Not sure that meets the above criteria.