External Affairs :: Policies & Procedures

This Office coordinates University-wide individual leadership cultivation and solicitation activities (Presidential/SVPEA prospects) and conducts a program of geographically-based fundraising.

Regional fundraisers are assigned driving corridors in Georgia and contiguous states and Aflight regions@ broken into the following areas of the United States: Northeast/New England, Mid Atlantic, Florida, Midwest and West. The flight regions include, among others, the following cities: New York, Boston, Washington, Houston, Dallas, Chattanooga, Nashville, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Long-term benefits include: 

•  A greater level of one-on-one contact with prospects, donors, and key volunteers around the country.
•  A much quicker and better identification of major gift prospects for UGA.
•  A stronger group of volunteer leadership around the country.
•  The establishment of a much broader Afeeder system@ or pipeline to prospective donors for UGA and its Schools/Colleges/Units.
•  A greater presence of UGA nationally through the coordination of and involvement in UGA receptions in key cities around the country.