In late April, ADF posted about the trend of athletics departments allowing their donors to choose their own seats for home basketball event during re-seating attempts. We found that universities were getting fantastic feedback from implementing programs such as this. The more choices fans have regarding their game day experience, the happier they will be. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Innovations’
Choose Your Own Parking!
Posted in Donor Reseating Plans, Parking, tagged Customer Service, donors, Innovations, Parking, re-seating, University of Illinois on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Championship events create excitement for fans
Posted in Events, tagged championship events, dinners, excitement, Innovations, NCAA tournament championship, Practices on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Even without a team participating in the championship, events held the night of the big game have been used to create buzz about the sport while also raising money. An excellent example of such an event will happen on April 6th at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. During the championship game for the [...]
Kick-Off Events create excitement about campaigns
Posted in Annual Giving Practices, Events, tagged annual fundraising drive, athletics development, excitement, fundraising, Innovations, kick-off events on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One innovative way to create excitement for donors are campaign kick off events. For those schools with annual giving years that have designated fund drive dates, one might want to look into hosting an event to have their donors get excited about the giving season. Northern Illinois University held its second annual campaign kick-off event [...]