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Why Conduct a Feasibility Study?
any graduates may wonder, “Why do we need to
conduct a capital campaign feasibility study?” The
M answer is simple: just because we want to renovate and
expand the house doesn’t necessarily mean that we can conduct a
successful fundraising campaign that will get us all the way there.
This feasibility study will allow us to accomplish several tasks
designed to gauge the potential success of the campaign, including,
but not limited to:
• Determining the overall interest level and support of the campaign
by our brothers and assessing the overall fraternity experience of
our alumni from a broad spectrum of generations.
• Identifying those brothers with the capacity to make lead and
mid-tier gifts, obtaining their reactions to the project, and deter-
mining if they have interest in supporting it.
• Educating our alumni on the need for the project and identifying
the people we will have involved to ensure success.
• Identifying alumni interested and willing to help as volunteers
throughout the campaign and on one of the ongoing committees.
• Most importantly, from all this feedback, establishing an achiev- our alumni. Keeping the best interest of the chapter in mind, the ACB
able campaign goal and campaign execution plan.
wants to be sure a project will be financially feasible, not only from an
The size and scope of changes made to the chapter house will be initial funding perspective, but also in terms of sustainable operations
directly related to the level of support and interest that we receive from over the long term.
Projected Expenses
ConstruCtion Cost ................ $1,400,000
ArChiteCturAl, legAl,
Permitting, & FundrAising .......... $300,000 Scholarship Endowment Construction Cost
Fixtures, Furniture,
And equiPment ......................... $100,000
sCholArshiP endowment ............. $200,000
PROJECTED COST ............... $2,000,000
Fixtures, Furniture,
and Equipment
Architectural,
Legal,
Permitting, &
Fundraising
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