Perhaps you've received one of those phone calls when you answer and the person on the other end asking you to donate to FAMU. If you haven't yet, just wait, you will.The university has contracted with an outside company to make fundraising phone calls to all the alumni in its database. If you don't hear from FAMU then that means the university doesn't have your number and you might want to call and update your information. It's the first-phase in the university's efforts to begin a long awaited annual giving campaign aimed at increasing money in the FAMU Foundation.
i got one of these class and i gave a tank of gas --- $100 !
ReplyDeleteI'm going to faint. FAMU has FINALLY learned how to use a telephone to solicit donations. That's what I'm talking about.
ReplyDeleteI think we'll all be very surprised what results we get when the school actually just asks directly for a donation rather than a speech at some dinner with 50 people or with a random quote in a newspaper article.
I received one of these calls and it went like this: "May I speak to...". I asked who was calling and their reply, "May I speak to...". Again I asked and their reply, "I am calling on behalf of Florida A&M University". I asked "for what". I was told for some kind of "capital fund". With anyone being able to access your inforamtiion these days, I refused to give any funds over the phone #1. Why was the alumni not notified in advance, #2. Are we paying for something volunteer alumns can do and have done? How much of the Willis's salary (both spouses are employeed at FAMU with HEALTHY salries) are they contributing. Also his leadership team. STOP THE MADNESS. If you want our support, why keep people like Kennedy-Lamar on. I hope we are not hurt again by negative publicity when the truth comes out and it will, Roland Gaines.
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ReplyDeleteyou are one of those complaining asses who never intended to give a dime any way. then, you'd probably turn around and ask for a free ticket to something. admit it!
then u wanna turn this entire conversation into something that it wasn't. with backward ass alums like you, we'd never get anywhere.
if FAMU calls, i'm giving! hell, FAMU doesn't even have to call... i'll call them.
good grief!
ok here we go....if famu can pick up the fone and call to collect money...whey the hell cant they answer it when we call to collect money.....famu can go to hell....i aint giving a damn dime...
ReplyDeleteI got the call and was a little skeptical. They sent me a pledge card in the mail. So I sent my check.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't received a call, but we already contribute to the foundation and booster's. Don't just wear orange and green, show your Rattler pride by giving green to the school so that we can grow, progress and move forward. If you can't say anything positive, then keep your ??*><>#@ mouth closed on this blog and all other matters.
ReplyDeleteIs that Hillary's phone in the ad?
ReplyDeletewow, 7:16! I don't know if the poster above you deserved such a beatdown over a comment. You sound like one of those "complaining a**es" that you called her/him. Chill, my friend. It's all good. And the act of "giving" is never suppose to be what you're obviously trying to make it out to be. Why are you so angry? It was jsut a phone call. Obviously, the phone people are going to call on more than one person. I bet when they call you, you probably won't give more than $50 and think you're doing a wonderfully great thing. Chill.
ReplyDeleteWhen the University calls and solicits money, you can do one of two things: You can say "yes," or you can say "no." The options are not that difficult. No need to beat people up on the blog about this. We are always trying to stump each other into the ground over the most minor, trifling b/s. Sound like a bunch of angry snakes online today. Yowsa!
ReplyDeletePress 1 for "yes," 2, for "no."
If you were educated at FAMU when no other school would take you... if you have a job that does not require hard physical labor...if you have a house, a car, food, and a TV...
ReplyDeleteyou should give at least a 10th of you income to the school that made your lifestyle possible.
you got out...someone helped you...now its your turn.
Rattlers let's keep it real. STOP the profanity. This is not the place. Find another site. Whether you agree or not a person has a right to express their opinion, at least that was what a FAMU professor explained to me. Let's not do this. If you give, you give. If not we will not close.
ReplyDeleteIt really sounds to me like an employee who is upset about what is happening on campus. If nothing has changed and you're getting the same old results, I can understand the statement.
ReplyDeleteJust say NO.
ReplyDelete7:16---someone had to "explain" to you that "a person has the right to express their opinion"? Does this mean, ahem, that you did not previously know that a person has this right? I'm just asking, since you made it clear that a FAMU professor "explained" this bit to you.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm telling you...I ain' giving...No, no, no, no way.
ReplyDeleteI CAN NOT BELIEVE the negativity here. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
ReplyDeleteIf you will not give to the university, them maybe you could pay the tuition of a needy student in your home town.
Someone needs a helping hand. You have a hand. Give it.
I want to see more brothers on those late night commercials that pull at your heart strings. It is always some white helping an impoverished pitiful black.
ReplyDeleteI want to see blacks helping blacks. Blacks going to Africa to relieve poverty. Blacks going to the inner cities to educate and provide role models for the young.
I want to see blacks helping the HBCU. No one else cares. Its not THEIR history.
3:52, i don't know why you can't believe the negativity here. You know that's how we roll. you know we have to keep it real, and if we aren't hatin' on each other, well, then, we ain' keepin' it real. 'cause to love each other, well, ain' no good in loving one another. hatin' is better.
ReplyDelete3:52, i don't know why you can't believe the negativity here. You know that's how we roll. you know we have to keep it real, and if we aren't hatin' on each other, well, then, we ain' keepin' it real. 'cause to love each other, well, ain' no good in loving one another. hatin' is better.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised. All we want to do is complain but when it comes time to do some good, we are nowhere to be found. This is one of the reasons we are at the bottom of society. Folks, we have to transgress our negavity. Send something to FAMU (even $10). Dr. Ammons has been doing a great job, he deserves our support.
ReplyDeletePresident Ammons & VP Willis have my support...and AD Hayes can count me in for season tickets
ReplyDeletebtw....see the article at TDO
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807160343
I received a call and will give more than I pledged. I was a bit skeptical at first, but I am glad the school is entering the modern era.
ReplyDeletehopefully this will transition to a student job or volunteer job. People who have better knowledge of FAMU and better training. There are some well trained telemarketers in Tally who can do well for us. Besides Dial America closed as well as West. I hope the contracted company is a good match in the meanwhile.
ReplyDeleteLet's see- Got my season tickets. Check. Got my booster membership. Check. Sent annual check to the foundation. Check. Paid the tuition and R&B for my freshman young'n. Check. Dang! That's a lot of checks! What else?
ReplyDeleteGosh darn!, I don't care who's calling on behalf of the University. Ain't nobody call me all the time the Ron Joe and Cast-hell were in charge!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2:49 wrote this: f you were educated at FAMU when no other school would take you... if you have a job that does not require hard physical labor...if you have a house, a car, food, and a TV...
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm a FAMU grad who has a job that requires hard physical work....but I also have all the other things mentioned..... I'm a NURSE....my husband is a FAMU grad and his job requires hard physical labor...he's a middle school football coach. But we'll both be giving, this year and every year...OF COURSE. What else can a real Rattler do?????
12:02 PM, that's because they were too busy spending money, not collecting it. They even cut off the auto-deductions "RattlerCheks" that people had set up with their bank accounts, and stopped THAT money from flowing in. And, Joe has the nerve to want to be re-hired on campus.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above statement. Let Joe stay where he is.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the RattlerCheck program and I can say that there was some disruption to my automatic contribution a few months ago. I don't know why, but everything is working fine right now. It may have had to do with converting over to a new software program. I'm not going to beat up on FAMU.
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