Fall semester is off to a strong start—students are settling into classes, UGA is No. 16 among best public universities, the Dawgs are racking up wins on the field, and our fundraising, engagement and career preparation endeavors are continuing at full speed.
DAR directors have continued to meet to focus on strategic planning, consider how we can collaborate better across campus and, as they say, work smarter, not harder. One way to do that is to reconsider meeting formats.
In an effort to create space and reduce redundancies, we’re going to eliminate DAR Division Meetings moving forward. We’ll continue Development Meetings and meetings for special groups like Alumni Directors/Annual Giving and the Stewardship team.
If you have other ideas or questions about collaboration—or if I can be of help to your team—please let me know. Thank you for your ongoing commitment to each other, to our work and to UGA!
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Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations and Executive Director of the UGA Foundation
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DAR 101
October 11 | 8:30 AM-4 PM
Terry Business Learning Community
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Annual Giving / Alumni Directors Meeting
October 11 | 3PM
Zoom
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Team Stewie
November 15
Flinchum's Phoenix
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Winter Development Meeting
February 13
TBD
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Spring Development Meeting
May 15
TBD
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GAIL Steering Committee Meetings
This series of meetings will be discontinued as we continue to refine the division's approach to meetings. If you have questions, please email askit@uga.edu.
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Events for Alumni + Friends
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College Engagement Program w/Deborah Roberts
September 26 | 10 AM
Perry High School Auditorium
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Presidents Club Reception (Invite-Only)
October 7 | 5-7 PM
Tate Student Center Grand Hall
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SAVE THE DATE: Georgia Giving Day
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Make a Beat Week plan
Work with your team to develop a way to leverage this opportunity to drive giving among your target audiences. Details are below.
Submit info for Alumni Football HQ
Send events, programs, or fundraising campaigns for alumni.uga.edu/football to Elizabeth Elmore.
Add events to the UGA Master Calendar—including internal DAR meetings!
Please add events to the UGA Master Calendar, including DAR meetings. This is how they appear on the DAR site for your colleagues to know they are happening.
Help proofread the 2023 Bulldog 100 list
The Bulldog 100 list will be announced in mid-November and assistance will be needed to proofread the information for the businesses' entries on alumni.uga.edu. If you're great with a red pen and are willing to lend a few hours of help during the first week of November, please email Elizabeth Elmore.
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Beat Week vs. Auburn (Oct. 3-8)
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WHEN IS BEAT WEEK? Monday, Oct. 3 to Saturday, Oct. 8 (11:59 p.m. CST)
Soft launch: Sept. 30 (targeting volunteers, VIP, boards, councils, SAC alumni)
WHAT IS BEAT WEEK? A weeklong giving challenge against Auburn Univ. Last year, we beat Auburn by a score of 2,516 gifts to 2,247. Gifts can be made in any amount to any designation. There will be a series of student events on campus throughout the week.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? All Dawgs: alumni, donors, students, faculty/staff, parents, friends and fans.
WHAT IS THE GOAL? (1) Beat Auburn. (2) Increase alumni participation. (3) 1,000 student gifts.
WHERE DO I SEND DONORS? AUvUGA.com will display the head-to-head numbers once the challenge starts on Oct. 3. From there, visitors will be redirected to our donation page.
WHAT CAN I DO? Help us beat Auburn for the third consecutive year by promoting the campaign to your school/college/unit/cause. An FAQ doc was disseminated last week to many groups across campus and a digital promo toolkit will be shared in the coming weeks. Questions? Email Sherry Abrams.
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The Student Engagement team did a great job hosting thousands of new Bulldogs for the annual Freshman Welcome event in Sanford Stadium on August 16. Thanks to their stellar coordination (and some great weather), it was a night that these students will surely remember forever. The forming of the G on the field made a handful of news broadcasts across the state that day, too!
A special kudos to our very own Marcus Jennings who you may not know first proposed the idea more than a decade ago while working in the Office of Alumni Relations.
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DAR Director Retreat Follow-Up
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This month, DAR directors gathered to continue the work they began during a summer retreat in early August. This follow-up meeting focused on creating space for innovation—one of our division's values—and better connecting people, processes and projects with DAR’s overall strategy. Some specific initiatives included:
- Developing guidelines for how we create space for innovation
- Forming small team “huddles” that will help tackle cross-team, division-wide challenges
- Introducing a new budgeting process to help all areas of DAR better align resources in a more collaborative way
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There are leftover Spring 2022 issues with the national championship covers available for use. If you have a way to use them, please email Elizabeth Elmore. The delayed Summer 2022 issue (cover story: Joro spiders) has hit mailboxes. DAR copies have finally arrived; let Elizabeth know if you need copies beyond what's on the publication wall upstairs at One Press Place. The Fall 2022 issue will hit mailboxes in early to mid-October and the Winter 2022 issue will hit mailboxes around December 8.
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New Endowment Donor Statement Process
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DAR is reevaluating how it collects biographies from donors as they sign fund agreements:
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When a new fund is set up, Caitlin Lacey contacts the Development Officer/Gift Contact to confirm the formal fund name for stewardship pieces and to confirm the founding donor(s) as stewardship representatives. No response to her confirmation will assume that everything from the Fund Setup email is correct.
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Once the fund agreement has been signed, Caitlin will send the Endowment Donor Statement form to the stewardship representative(s) through DocuSign. The donor’s name as listed on the fund agreement and the formal fund name will be pre-populated at the top of the document.
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The donor will be automatically reminded through DocuSign to complete the form 14 days after they receive it, and every 21 days until 60 days. Then, it expires.
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Copies of the completed document will be automatically sent to the Development Officer/Gift Contact, DARCOMM, and Donor Relations. It will be also be saved in GAIL on the constituent page as an interaction and on the fund page as documentation.
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View the form donors will receive through DocuSign here.
Please email Caitlin Lacey if you have questions about this process.
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Football Season Marketing Plans
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Here are DARCOMM’s marketing plans for football season. In addition to supporting DAR events and fundraising campaigns, they are leveraging social media and other marketing channels to translate the attention on UGA during this exciting time into year-round engagement. Please let Katie DeGenova know if you have questions, things to add and/or see ways you can help.
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Game-watching parties across the country are continuing each week, too. We encourage you to direct your alumni and donors to those events wherever they live or travel. Questions? Email Sarah Sonenberg.
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Jennifer Messer
Get to know Jennifer Messer, the director of development for the College of Environment + Design. Did you know she performed with Mickey Rooney when she was 12 years old?
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Lee Snelling
Meet Lee Snelling, the senior director of development for the College of Pharmacy. Guess where you might find Lee on a Saturday night with his son—let's just say it can be scattered, smothered and covered.
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The Regional team will be traveling to the following cities soon.
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Katie Adams
Naples/Ft. Myers, FL (Sept. 27-29)
LaRisa Chambers
Los Angeles, CA (Sept. 22-25)
Alysse Capitanelli
Perry, GA (Sept. 30-Oct. 1)
Athens, GA (Oct. 5-9)
Manhattan Area (Oct. 12-14 + Oct. 18-19)
Connecticut (Oct. 24-26)
Matt Mize
Macon, GA (Sept. 21)
St. Simons Island, GA (Sept. 29-30)
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Chris Jefts
Valdosta/Tifton, GA (Sept. 26-28)
Rome/Dalton, GA (Oct. 12-14)
Waycross/Douglas, GA (Oct. 27-30)
Justin Hill
Little Rock, AR (Sept. 20-22)
Beth Zimmerman
Asheville, NC (Sept. 21-23)
Adam Prescott
Atlanta, GA (Sept. 21-22; day trips)
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Open Positions
This is to make you aware of position postings in the division. We encourage anyone interested in applying to do so. All UGA HR policies and procedures will apply. If you know of a potential candidate who may be a good fit for an opportunity, contact Michelle Carter.
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- Welcome to Cynthia Casey, Administrative Associate, Office of Special Events
- Welcome to Jasmine Moorman, Career Consultant, Career Center
- Welcome to David Petmecky, Development Analyst, Research & Prospect Management
- Welcome to Anna Stevenson, Career Consultant, Career Center
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Welcome to Laetitia Adelson, Career Consultant, Career Center
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Welcome to Courtney Kichefski, Career Consultant, Career Center
- Welcome to Vivian Guerra, Administrative Assistant, Career Center
- Welcome to Kelsey Hogan, Administrative Specialist, Office of the Vice President
- Congrats to Ryan Phillips, named Asst. Director of Annual Giving, Annual Giving
- Congrats to Virginia Lara, named Endowment Analyst, UGA Foundation
- Congrats to Sherry Abrams, Sr. Director of Annual Giving, transferred from CAES to Annual Giving
- Congrats to Lindsey Copus, Director of Board Relations, transferred from Office of Special Events to UGA Foundation
- Best wishes to Milton Conde, leaving Research & Prospect Management
- Best wishes to Brooke Hicks, leaving Office of the Vice President
- Best wishes to Kayla Ly, leaving Research & Prospect Management
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New football videos for your viewing pleasure
Football season brings Bulldogs together—renewing friendships forged on campus and igniting pride in our alma mater. We're fanning the flame of the Georgia spirit through a football hype video and refreshed alumni brand video, reminding our alumni and fans that Bulldogs Never Bark Alone.™
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Send it to Elizabeth Elmore.
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