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Message: [QUOTE="llandz, post: 2310663, member: 1679"] So here is part of the story. Everyone at SU who has donated in the past has ONE contact person. If you have an academic contact person, you will not also have an athletic contact person. All donations are considered together as opposed to having several different persons calling you. If you had 3 or 4 different people calling you or emailing you, you would not be happy with that either. There are several exceptions to this rule where some major donors may be covered by a couple of different departments. Or a husband grad by one, and a wife grad by another. Now, I have an Orange Club athletic rep who contacts me, but also was contacted by one of the athletic directors to help the SU women pay for a plane to travel to last years NCAA tournament, as the NCAA would not pay for air travel, and with the major snowstorms, SU was not comfortable with Bus travel. So Another person from athletics did contact me other than my usual person. I do not get contacted by any other department, even those I donate to also annually. [B]Now for the REAL SECRET... You can donate without someone calling you!! I was never called, and I just started donating[/B]... Here is the link. [URL="http://giving.syr.edu/"]Syracuse University Giving[/URL] You can look around and find your area, or areas of interest. I do donate to other areas besides athletics. I donate to the Office of Alumni Relations. If you ever go to a game watch in your area and they are handing out swag, the OAR purchases those with donations. Seriously go to the above link, and play around. You can donate to the Cheerleaders, you can donate to Library Student Employees, Pan Am 103 Archives, The Syracuse 8 Scholarship fund, The institute for Veteran and Military Families for ex. In athletics, you can donate to pretty much any team and any coach's discretionary fund. For those of you who are paying off student loans. Hmmmm. I wonder how many students are paying off student loans. I bet quite a few. Why not just donate $44 one time per year for now. Just to get your feet wet until you are in a better place. This money may help an athlete who has even less financial opportunities than you do. It may help them to have better academic support while they attend SU, as they may have come from a high school that did not afford them the same academic things that you had. If we take all of your $44 and add them up that is a nice chunk of change. There is never an amount that is too little to donate. If it is $10, then donate that. Just get in the habit. It keeps you connected in your heart. And that is my rant with all of this...If you wait for everything in life to come to you in a certain way, then you miss out on a lot of things. If you don't get the call, take it upon yourself... [/QUOTE]

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