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Nov. 8th, 2013 02:01 pmFUNDRAISING GONE ASTRAY.
My undergraduate alma mater has come up with an admittedly brilliant donation solicitation technique: alumni of my tiny liberal arts school are being pitted against the alumni of another nearby tiny liberal arts school to see who can give more in a single week. This is actually pretty much a genius move; as someone who works in fundraising I love it to tiny bits.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM: my undergrad has not traditionally had a major rival, because we're a liberal arts school, you could build a postmodern expressionist sculpture out of all the fucks we don't give about sports. AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
But it means we've never had a rival.
So clearly they picked a rival, they got together with this other school and they said hey, let's be rivals. I mean. Can you imagine that meeting. They did lunch all smiles and good cheer and declared each other major rivals for the rest of time.
But it gets better because I have polled the people I am still in touch with from undergrad, and none of us have ever heard of this school. I used to work in the library and we had a network of associated libraries in the region that we were in regular communication with, so I know basically every other school within the blast radius of a moderately-effective alien death ray, and I've still never heard of this school. I'm not a hundred percent certain it exists.
We might be rivals with an imaginary liberal arts school.
Which honestly, is kind of beautiful.
My undergraduate alma mater has come up with an admittedly brilliant donation solicitation technique: alumni of my tiny liberal arts school are being pitted against the alumni of another nearby tiny liberal arts school to see who can give more in a single week. This is actually pretty much a genius move; as someone who works in fundraising I love it to tiny bits.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM: my undergrad has not traditionally had a major rival, because we're a liberal arts school, you could build a postmodern expressionist sculpture out of all the fucks we don't give about sports. AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
But it means we've never had a rival.
So clearly they picked a rival, they got together with this other school and they said hey, let's be rivals. I mean. Can you imagine that meeting. They did lunch all smiles and good cheer and declared each other major rivals for the rest of time.
But it gets better because I have polled the people I am still in touch with from undergrad, and none of us have ever heard of this school. I used to work in the library and we had a network of associated libraries in the region that we were in regular communication with, so I know basically every other school within the blast radius of a moderately-effective alien death ray, and I've still never heard of this school. I'm not a hundred percent certain it exists.
We might be rivals with an imaginary liberal arts school.
Which honestly, is kind of beautiful.
