URGENT: College of Computing Fundraising

[mathlete coach]

Folks, what is needed is the following.

Individual alumni contributions are well and good.
What is needed is to contact key people among:
microsoft gators
google gators
amazon gators
IBM gators
Nvidia gators

Please put the names together of the people who have
contacted you recently. Xiao Li at IBM, Ramesh Balasubramaniam
at Microsoft, Kat Leung at Google, etc.
After you have the names and emails and even phones,
I would be happy to contact them.

Ask them to band together, and ask their VPs to pledge
a large amount contingent on CISE autonomy and a college of computing.

Thanks,

On 4/30/12, Shivashankar Halan <shivashan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I was hoping to use the same message and link to the pledge page on
> the website.
>
> Would you recommend waiting until the proposal in online before we contact
> these 7000+?
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:20 AM, mathlete coach
> <mathlet...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Shiva, you already have a very good 1 paragraph message that you sent to
>> the industry consortium and the alumni.
>>
>> You also have a very good pledge page and a pledge letter/form page
>> that you can link to. What is missing is a complete college of
>> computing proposal - which will be linked
>> from both of the above pages.
>>
>> That is in the works. Should be done tommorrow.
>>
>> Meera
>>
>>
>> On 4/30/12, Shivashankar Halan <shivashan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Friends,
>> >
>> > All of you must have seen the pledge form and response to the same by
>> now.
>> > We need to contact all our alumni ASAP to spread the message about the
>> > pledge form and get a whole lot more pledges.
>> >
>> > I have ~7000 alumni email ids (from Nuri) that we can send a
>> > well-crafted
>> > message to tomorrow morning. Can you guys work with me to send this out,
>> > preferably before the town hall meeting at 11 am today?
>> >
>> > Please reply to this thread and let me know. Thanks!
>> >
>> > Shiva
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Nuri Yeralan <nuri...@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:11 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Save CISE fundraising pledge form
>> > To: mathlete coach <mathlet...@gmail.com>
>> > Cc: Shivashankar Halan <shivashan...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> >
>> > "Hub" contacts attached.
>> >
>> > - N
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Sencer Nuri Yeralan
>> > <nuri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> My linkedin guy won't want to blast a communication out to his folks
>> >> hitting them up for money. He's already heavily modified our message
>> that
>> >> we're waiting on to send out. If we try to force anything, he'll
>> >> freeze.
>> >> He
>> >> takes his fake authority position seriously.
>> >>
>> >> I'll forward the ~7000 "Hub" contacts when I get back to my computer.
>> >>
>> >> - N (mobile)
>> >>
>> >> On Apr 27, 2012, at 7:17 PM, mathlete coach <mathlet...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Shiva, thank you! I don't know if you received any feedback on the
>> >> document. It lacks Zing. It should also explicitly talk about a college
>> of
>> >> computing. I suggested to Sharan to have a go at it. Also, you can add
>> >> a
>> >> lot from the new "What is it all about" page.
>> >>
>> >> How many people do we have on the industry consortium list?
>> >>
>> >> How many people do we have on the alumni list?
>> >>
>> >> Let's have a target of tommorrow noon to have the page up and running,
>> >> linked to the wordpress page,
>> >> and blast all lists, facebook etc.
>> >>
>> >> @Nuri, we are going to need your email lists now, as well as your
>> linkedin
>> >> contact.
>> >>
>> >> Please let me know.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Shivashankar Halan <
>> >> shivashan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> How we put these forms out there is another issue. Right now I am just
>> >>> trying to get feedback on the content and format of the form.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sencer Nuri Yeralan <
>> nuri...@gmail.com
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> We might want to set up a formal fundraising pipeline through ASCIE,
>> >>>> which I am now president of.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Let me know if you want to proceed and I can bring in the incoming
>> ASCIE
>> >>>> officers. Most of us are high-ranking folks in the CISE fight.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - N (mobile)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Shivashankar Halan <
>> >>>> shivashan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> As per advice from faculty and feedback from alumni, we worked on
>> >>>> setting up a fundraising pledge form. *The goal of this form is not
>> >>>> to
>> >>>> collect money but to gauge who would be ready to contribute money to
>> the
>> >>>> cause, if needed*. So after searching a lot of ready-made solutions
>> >>>> we
>> >>>> have made a simple google form to get this information. We can use
>> some
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> the ready-made fundraising web sites out there but they all take
>> credit
>> >>>> card information and we did not want to do that.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please review and provide feedback. We can embed this form on our
>> >>>> website and then request people to pledge money. Information on who
>> >>>> pledges
>> >>>> and how much is totally pledged can be updated on our website
>> >>>> automatically. This way we can show that people are ready to make an
>> >>>> one-time contribution if these cuts are not considered recurring
>> >>>> cuts.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFwR0VRWGNfUGZpOFFWdmlhZWJkcGc6MQ
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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