This is an archived version from November 1, 2020

2020 Focus: Finalize a working vision

• Confirm stance on pursuit of varsity
• Establish initial project timeline
• Clarify collaboration between men’s and women’s teams
• Prioritize field/fieldhouse
• Estimate and prioritize campaign fundraising goals
• Create working vision presentation to share with potential supporters and donors

Unspecified timeline

Completed projects

• Archived here

Current projects

Gather additional input or solicit additional working group help

• Ad-hoc conversations occurring
• All members are encouraged to continue reaching out to their network

Clarify collaboration between men’s and women’s teams

• Unanimous support for collaboration
• No issues with soliciting for joint projects
• Clarity of vision and mechanics of fundraising will determine exact collaboration
• Will continue gathering input (Cohen, Rec Sports development, women’s alumni, other projects, etc.) to inform collaboration

Prioritize field/fieldhouse

• Given the lack of lead donors, our working vision will include facility desires and options but no hard cost or timeline
• Facility will be pursued in parallel to other vision items
  • The first step is to identify potential lead donors
• Rec Sports identified Elbel as the most likely location for a Rec Sports rugby project
• Discussions and research ongoing

Estimate and prioritize campaign fundraising goals

• Includes
  • Development priorities
  • Milestones
  • Field/fieldhouse prioritization
  • Clarity of collaboration between men’s and women’s teams
• Bodner, Frech, Rojano, Seibert, and Trenary continuing to draft iterations of working vision to drive goal prioritization

Upcoming projects

Share working vision with Rec Sports development team

• Waiting on: Estimate and prioritize campaign fundraising goals
• Expect to receive guidance on goals, estimation, and prioritization

Milestone: Finalize working vision

Beyond Milestone Projects

• Identify initial supporters and donors to contact, and map out working group’s connections
• Share working vision with Spectators
• Establish order of admissions assistance pursuit, and consider when to connect with Spencer, Martin, John Paul, Athletics
• Decide upon donation mechanics (gift account, endowment, MRF, new account?)