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(07-28-2016 06:11 PM)trojan chariot Wrote:  Robert Zemeckis is probably the richest of NIU's former students he attended NIU but transferred to USC. He was involved in the production of Forrest Gump,the Back to the Furture series and Romancing the Stone and many other hits.I believe he lived in Stevenson towers.

Not to mention my son's favorite movie, Polar Express.
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Jerry Rich is probably the wealthiest of the ones we are familiar with. He is probably in the hundreds of millions category.

NIU has to have a lot of people in the 1-10 range, just given accounting. If those guys don't blow their dough, you can cash some nice partnership checks, although you also dole out some serious cash.

Problem isn't the number of wealthy alumni, the problem is getting them involved.

Side note: never knew the promiscuous chick in CaddyShack was a NIU alum until last week. Think it was posted on Hustle Belt.
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(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working on:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink
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(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Hahaha yes! I would love to hear his thoughts.

PS, your documentary looks awesome!
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(07-29-2016 06:52 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Hahaha yes! I would love to hear his thoughts.

PS, your documentary looks awesome!

Thanks, almost done thank god.
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(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working on:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Good stuff!

03-thumbsup

Me and Matty will be waiting for the invite for the red carpet preview!!!
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(07-29-2016 08:39 PM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working on:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Good stuff!

03-thumbsup

Me and Matty will be waiting for the invite for the red carpet preview!!!

Done deal... 04-cheers
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(07-29-2016 08:00 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:52 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:30 PM)NIUSAE Wrote:  Barsema has him beat by a long shot if the google number for Zemeckis is accurate. He's only at 50 million. Barsema was at about 125+ at the time of his donation. I'm sure there are many NIU alums with a net worth between 1 and 10 million who aren't in the donating phase of their life yet. Part of the situation is that we have a lot of teachers/nurses and other majors who don't earn the large dollars. We need more engineers, scientists, business creators, best selling authors to fill the void. I also wonder how well the foundation finds the big tuna's.

Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Hahaha yes! I would love to hear his thoughts.

PS, your documentary looks awesome!

Thanks, almost done thank god.

Well best of luck, I'm looking forward to it.
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I'm working on it guys! Lol.

If you are in to the big ticket donor stuff I highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell's podcast revisionist history.

He did a series on educational reform and has an entire podcast that goes after those who donate $100 million to places like Harvard and Stanford. Talks about a rich dude that gave $100 million to a blue collar university in Jersey and they built an engineering department...and he was a MIT grad.

Weak link problems....cool episode.

I'm hoping Gladwell gets a conversation going and we are able to tap into it. NIU is the perfect school for a $100 million gift...it would be transformative and give a lot of blue collar, mid toer students a chance to do something great.

"Giving $100 million dollars to Stanford is stupid Phil Knight."

I love Malcolm Gladwell...also wrote about this topic in David and Goliath with a Toledo reference. Basically a top tier student at An NIU or Toledo is much better off than a bottom tier student at an Ivy.
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(07-30-2016 12:20 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 08:00 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:52 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 07:34 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  Maybe now that Matt Walsh is an emmy nominated actor he will see more $$$ and donate lol.

I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Hahaha yes! I would love to hear his thoughts.

PS, your documentary looks awesome!

Thanks, almost done thank god.

Well best of luck, I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks, my production partner is an NIU grad as well, want to do a freebie showing at NIU this year...
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(07-30-2016 11:04 AM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-30-2016 12:20 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 08:00 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:52 PM)DogPoundNorth Wrote:  
(07-29-2016 06:38 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  I think I'm interviewing Matt Walsh in the next few weeks for a Bears doc I am working:

http://85bearsdoc.com

Seems like a nice guy, I'll pitch him re "Walsh Stadium" if the mood is right 03-wink

Hahaha yes! I would love to hear his thoughts.

PS, your documentary looks awesome!

Thanks, almost done thank god.

Well best of luck, I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks, my production partner is an NIU grad as well, want to do a freebie showing at NIU this year...

That would be really cool, you should as Sean Fraizer if that would be cool while also ensuring us that he will still be the AD. Then you could break the news about Walsh Field and about our AD staying in DeKalb.
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The wealthiest alum I know of is John Sall. Wikipedia has him at 4.2 billion and Forbes at 4.4 billion. He received a Masters at NIU in 1973 and an honorary Doctorate in 2014. Don't know if he is a football fan.

http://www.niutoday.info/2014/05/05/co-f...doctorate/
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(07-26-2016 11:17 AM)beachboy Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:41 AM)beachboy Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:02 AM)klake87 Wrote:  NIU needs other wealthy donors to step up. Do we have many more in their financial range?

SF is trying his best but we have limited resources for the big seed money for capital projects.



Dan "Homer Simpson" Castellaneta. He has plenty of coin.

He left NIU tho, didn't he? Never graduated?

Yes he did graduate. I even saw him in an NIU play. And at Second City. http://www.niu.edu/theatre/about/alumni/index.shtml

ok cool
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(07-28-2016 07:48 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 06:11 PM)trojan chariot Wrote:  Robert Zemeckis is probably the richest of NIU's former students he attended NIU but transferred to USC. He was involved in the production of Forrest Gump,the Back to the Future series and Romancing the Stone and many other hits.I believe he lived in Stevenson towers.

Not to mention my son's favorite movie, Polar Express.

Yes Polar Express was a wonderful movie.I enjoyed Contact,Cast Away,What lies Beneath,Ghost Ship.Public Enemy and Death Becomes Her.I would of thought those Back to the Future movies would of put him well above 100 million.
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(07-31-2016 07:14 PM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 11:17 AM)beachboy Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:44 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:41 AM)beachboy Wrote:  
(07-26-2016 09:02 AM)klake87 Wrote:  NIU needs other wealthy donors to step up. Do we have many more in their financial range?

SF is trying his best but we have limited resources for the big seed money for capital projects.



Dan "Homer Simpson" Castellaneta. He has plenty of coin.

He left NIU tho, didn't he? Never graduated?

Yes he did graduate. I even saw him in an NIU play. And at Second City. http://www.niu.edu/theatre/about/alumni/index.shtml

ok cool

You're think Castellaneta would donate to the college of performing arts, put his name on a new voice over booth or something.
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(07-28-2016 07:48 PM)RitzHuskie Wrote:  
(07-28-2016 06:11 PM)trojan chariot Wrote:  Robert Zemeckis is probably the richest of NIU's former students he attended NIU but transferred to USC. He was involved in the production of Forrest Gump,the Back to the Future series and Romancing the Stone and many other hits.I believe he lived in Stevenson towers.

Not to mention my son's favorite movie, Polar Express.
Polar express was great so was Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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They don't have to be alums... A lot of big athletic donors at other colleges are people in the community. John "thunder" Thorton is a huge Tenn donor and he didn't go there. Al Dunalp has given $15M to Florida State and he is a West Point graduate but retired in FL, and there are many more..

Professional athletes can't donate millions unless it is early in their career or they were smart enough to invest their millions(probably 5% of all athletes).

You need CEOs, Private Business owners, rich families with generational wealth...

People like Jerry Rich (who is big into men's golf), Dekalb seed people, etc
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