If you know someone who attended NY Military Academy, tell them that they are sorely needed now to help the school keep from closing!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are not enough Alumni who credit NYMA for the effort it had to make to turn around cadets. You know what I mean!!
I had several alumni stop me when I was driving my car and ask me who I knew who was attending NYMA, because I had a car magnet with the NYMA name on it. One ex-cadet tracked me through my store to tell me how much NYMA meant to him. I wonder where he is now??
I hope you find my blog and get the message to help!
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The desire to keep NYMA open is a noble one.
ReplyDeleteBut you are fighting a losing battle if this is the approach.
It will not work.
A committed team of major givers needs to be identified. They each have to pony (as well as get) $250k each. You need ten of them.
Then you need a five year Development plan after this committed team meets, commits, and gets the bank to agree to a write down of some of the debt.
NYMA has a deep pool of potential givers, but people don't just give, they have to be cultivated.
A Hail Mary pass of five hundred people sending $25.00 sadly never works.
That's not how Development works. It's a fairly sophisticated business and it needs professionals executing it.
Just my thoughts.
I think you should have told Obama this. A grassroots campaign can be very powerful.
ReplyDeleteIn our democracy, every vote counts and an election is the sum total of every single vote. Like a vote, every single dollar counts. There are many institutions which have been built on the sum total of many individuals giving what they can, without thinking that their money doesn't matter.
If you look at any school's website where contributors are listed, you will find there are more people willing to contribute $100 than that one miracle-worker who comes up with $1M+.
I think one person saying it will not work, and that it is not sophisticated enough, has never done the math and it underestimates the power of all the possibilities that can be generated when dedicated people get together.
Even professional fund-raisers can offer their services for free if they want to seriously help NYMA. Why not contact the institution and offer them your services? They are a fine group of people and the cadets deserve the help. It is the noble thing to do.