Terrence M. "Terry" Pegula was born March 27, 1951 and is an American businessman. Pegula founded East Resources, a natural gas drilling company, before selling the Pennsylvania, New York, and Rocky Mountain assets of the company to Royal Dutch Shell for approximately $4.7 billion. East Resources, Inc. continues to hold oil & gas assets in West Virginia.
Since his cashout, he has been known for his contributions to higher education athletics; having donated $102 million for the construction of the Pegula Ice Arena on the campus of Penn State University and $12 million for the construction of the Kerr-Pegula Sports Complex at Houghton College located in Western New York. On February 18, 2011, he bought the NHL's Buffalo Sabres (along with the Buffalo Bandits indoor Lacrosse franchise) from previous owners Tom Golisano, Larry Quinn, and Dan DiPofi for $189 million.
Pegula's purchase made an immediate positive impact, with players, fans and alumni invigorated by his investment in the team. Pegula was quoted as saying, "Starting today, the Buffalo Sabres reason for existence, will be to win a Stanley Cup." In May 2011, Pegula began negotiations on behalf of the Sabres to repurchase the Rochester Americans, which had served as the Sabres' American Hockey League affiliate from 1979 to 2008 (and had been owned by the Sabres from 1979 to 1996); the deal was completed in late June 2011. Pegula also owns a share of Black River Music Group, an independent country music label that includes among its artists Craig Morgan and Sarah Darling. In 2012 he won a bid for the development rights to the Webster Block on Buffalo's waterfront, which according to Pegula's plans will include hotel and parking space in addition to an 1,800-seat ice arena.
The Pegulas pledged $88 million to Pennsylvania State University, in State College, to build a new athletics arena, to support the university’s men’s and women’s hockey programs, and to provide scholarships to hockey players who attend the university. Mr. Pegula, 59, earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and natural-gas engineering from the university in 1973. Although he did not play hockey when he attended Penn State, Mr. Pegula and his wife are lifelong hockey fans, and he and his family often attend the university’s games, said Joe Battista, the university’s associate athletic director for ice-arena operations.
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You have all been involved in fundraising in one way or another. Whether you were asked to buy a fundraising product or helped to sell one, a fundraiser is a necessity for your local school group, charity, non-profit, church, sports team, cheerleading or association that seems to be here to stay.
A common problem that many who are involved in raising money face is making a decision on what type of product or service should be offered to make money. What items will be easy to sell?
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You want to make sure that the products you sell to be a good value for your buyer / donor. They should also draw their interest. You may want to consider products that are a good environmental value and be healthy for the user.
If your organization is doing a fundraising raffle you might want to consider a new twist on that idea. You get donations from vendors and friends that are of similar value and then the bids for the items go to a set minimum value and then the winning bidders get to pick the prize of their choice. The process takes a bit of getting use to, but it allows winning bidders to take their choice of the prize they want and win.
You can also apply the “pick your prize” to a raffle format. In this way the winners get to pick the prize of choice. You can hold a random drawing to choose which raffle winner get to choose first.
Supporting the causes and organizations close to our hearts helps to build better communities. We passionately believe that fundraising should bring people together, and most importantly - Be Fun and Successful!
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While many fundraisers are very simple and may be to help your team buy new t-shirts or basic sports equipment they still are to help children participate in an organization that hopes sports will not only be a form of healthy exercise but will teach them ways to be better citizens and better people.
Each and every fundraiser should be and is an advancement to the common good.
Creating greater value for charitable gifts is one of the largest problem most fundraisers face. One of the best ways to overcome it is to tie the donation or purchase to something of value. In doing so, the equation becomes more about the desired object of value than the decision for the donation.
That’s why special events and product promotions work so well. It takes the mind of the buyer off the costs and provides an emotional reason to make a purchase or donation decision.
We are especially excited about helping schools with fundraisers because we want to provide schools money to replace earnings from candy and soda vending machines and reduce childhood obesity. Without the vending machines, the kids and teachers at the school will be healthier, and the schools will still have fundraiser earnings from us to keep programs funded.
We would like you to consider the special value of Sunset Coupon Books.
Sunset Coupon Books contain hundreds of dollars in savings from local merchants. The savings enjoyed from using just one or two coupons will pay for the book. And who doesn’t need to save money these days?
Sunset Coupon Books are small enough to fit in a pocket or purse yet contain over 40 family-friendly coupons such as 2 for 1 Meals, and Attractions like Bowling, Mini-Golf, Skating, etc; a combined value of over $400 in savings.
Coupon Books sell for only $10 each. You pay $5 for them so you make $5 for yourself for a full 100% profit.
Local coupon book editions are available in Phoenix, Tempe / Mesa, Tucson and Salt Lake City.
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It may seem like a “nobrainer” that giving people more ways to donate will result in more sales and donations, hence more money in total donations.
When you set up to sell your Sunset Coupon Books at outside your local store you want to make sure that all of the ways a person can buy and donate are represented.
You want to make sure that not only is every person who walks by offered a chance to purchase your Sunset Coupon Books but that they can donate money in your donation jar. If you have an online donation or purchase channel that not only do you have a sign that lists your website, but, that each person is offered a handout with information about your group and their mission but that it contains the online information. Upcoming events should be part of your display and handouts as well.
If a person walks by without a purchase or donation they are not saying “No” to your organization or cause, they are saying “Not Now”. You need to make sure that when the time is right for each individual person that your group is still “top of mind” and the person has the information or access to the information that makes a purchase or donation possible.
If your group has a newsletter, online or mail-out, you can use it to reach a larger (and hopefully, ever growing) number of donors by collecting as many names as possible. Make sure that at every event or sales location you have a sign-up sheet for your newsletter. More importantly you want to make sure that people who make purchases, donations and those who don’t are given the opportunity to sign up for that newsletter.
You can have one person who has the clipboard with the sign up sheet and actively offers it to the people who pass your booth. Make sure you have at least two clipboards with sign-up sheets so that people don’t have to wait to do a newsletter sign-up.
When doing in person fundraising it is helpful if you can relate your efforts to current news events and topics that in the forefront of your buyers or donors minds. You can and should use posters to convey this information to those attending your event or location.
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There are many ways to raise funds for your school’s group. You are familiar with so many of them as they are tried and used over and over again. They include bake sales, car washes, kissing booths, dunk tanks, face painting, sales of all kinds of things that never get used, chocolate bars and many, many more.
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 and is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.
Born and raised in New York state, he took up writing software programs as a hobby in middle school, beginning with BASIC, with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a "prodigy"). In high school, he excelled in classic literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy.
He later attended Harvard University, majoring in computer science and psychology. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program called Facemash as a "fun" project, letting students on the college's network vote on other students' photo attractiveness. It would become a template for his writing Facebook, a program he launched from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2007, Zuckerberg was a billionaire at the age of 23.
At a party put on by his fraternity, Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, a fellow student who he began dating in 2003. In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, to move into his rented Palo Alto house. On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in a celebration also marking her graduation from medical school.
On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism". Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.
Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an open-source personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. He called it a "cool idea".
Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation. On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had arranged to donate $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. Critics noted the timing of the donation as being close to the release of The Social Network, which painted a somewhat negative portrait of Zuckerberg. Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker stated that he and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had to convince Zuckerberg's team not to make the donation anonymously.
On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a promise they called the "Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or more of their wealth to charity.
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We've all heard enough about positive attitude. If you agree, you can skip reading this blog, but at your own risk. Keep in mind that, according to a Stanford Research Institute study success is 88 percent attitude and 12 percent education. The results should be no surprise to anyone. Maintaining a positive attitude is an important factor in your ability to succeed in life and stay sane through tough times. This topic is of great importance to anyone that is part of fundraising.
When you are doing fundraising you need to ask, "What's is our most urgent need?" Most will answer "To raise more money, so we can help more people." You need to learn and then teach the skills and solutions to the problems, help increase their sales, help their people to accept and adapt to change, and teach them how to apply creative thinking for business solutions. They also need to address the importance of providing service excellence and establishing customer loyalty. But most important, they say, is to help their people to maintain a positive attitude through this tough economy.
If you're a fundraising professional or even a part time volunteer, consider this: a national survey examined why salespeople fail. You would think it would most often be because of high prices or poor quality. But 15 percent of the respondents attributed failure to "poor training," another 15 percent said "poor management" and another 20 percent said "poor communication skills." A full 50 percent, however, said that salespeople fail because of "lack of positive attitude."
If you are in sales, and make no mistake about it, fundraising is salesmanship, you must recognize that your donors, potential donors or buyers need to hear a positive attitude and confidence behind the words you say. If they don't, you'll have a difficult time convincing them to buy your items or make donations.
Positive attitude is not only about choosing to have a good outlook through good times and bad, but also about learning to love what you do. It has been observed that outstanding business people are successful because they deeply love their work. The Achievers of this world know that if you can learn to love and be grateful for your job, you'll be more productive, more creative, and more content.
Think of most successful people you know, and you may agree that most are passionate about what they do, are rarely affected by negativity, and tend to enjoy their work. I know for certain that the better your attitude the better your work and your life will be for you.
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