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Get to Know: Plattsburgh College Foundation
Michelle Besaw
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
Originally published: 4/29/07 at 7:50 PM EST
Last update: 4/29/07 at 7:49 PM EST
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The room was filled with the voices of eleven students speaking on the phone with Plattsburgh State alumni during the year-round phone-a-thon in Hawkins Hall.
The phone-a-thon is one of the fundraisers by the Plattsburgh College Foundation to help take in gifts from Plattsburgh alumni and the local community.
Senior Wendy Rocchetta has been working at the phone-a-thon for two semesters.
"It maintains a connection between alumni and the university," she said. "We get really good feedback from them and they are more eager to contribute when they have a good connection with people."
Ninety-percent of the gifts received go to financial aid, Executive Director of the foundation Anne Hansen said. The rest goes toward student activities, improvements in campus technology and improvements in the welfare of the college.
Last fiscal year $750,000 was raised for student scholarship, Assistant Director for Annual Giving and PSUC alumna Naromie Ganesh said.
"They can give as little as $2 dollars and still be connected to the college," she said.
The foundation builds a major gift program as well as a relationship with the community and alumni. Forty-percent of all donations come from alumni, Hansen said.
Annual goals consist of two focuses: the number of people who give, and the amount given.
"We focus on building participation," Hansen said. "It's about how many give, not how much they give."
Monetary gifts aren't the only accepted donations. The foundation also looks for career networking and admission referrals.
Networking helps support graduates on their career paths and admission referrals increases the applicant pool to strengthen the college, Hansen said.
"We want to build a tradition where people decide PSUC is the top of their charitable priorities," Hansen said.
Virginia Damianos, known to many as Jinny, graduated from PSUC in 1950 from the School Nurse teaching program, now the nursing program.
The phone-a-thon is one of the fundraisers by the Plattsburgh College Foundation to help take in gifts from Plattsburgh alumni and the local community.
Senior Wendy Rocchetta has been working at the phone-a-thon for two semesters.
"It maintains a connection between alumni and the university," she said. "We get really good feedback from them and they are more eager to contribute when they have a good connection with people."
Ninety-percent of the gifts received go to financial aid, Executive Director of the foundation Anne Hansen said. The rest goes toward student activities, improvements in campus technology and improvements in the welfare of the college.
Last fiscal year $750,000 was raised for student scholarship, Assistant Director for Annual Giving and PSUC alumna Naromie Ganesh said.
"They can give as little as $2 dollars and still be connected to the college," she said.
The foundation builds a major gift program as well as a relationship with the community and alumni. Forty-percent of all donations come from alumni, Hansen said.
Annual goals consist of two focuses: the number of people who give, and the amount given.
"We focus on building participation," Hansen said. "It's about how many give, not how much they give."
Monetary gifts aren't the only accepted donations. The foundation also looks for career networking and admission referrals.
Networking helps support graduates on their career paths and admission referrals increases the applicant pool to strengthen the college, Hansen said.
"We want to build a tradition where people decide PSUC is the top of their charitable priorities," Hansen said.
Virginia Damianos, known to many as Jinny, graduated from PSUC in 1950 from the School Nurse teaching program, now the nursing program.
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