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Why ConduCt A FeAsibility study? any graduates may wonder: “Why do Mwe need to conduct a capital campaign feasibility study?” The answer is simple: just because we want to build a new chapter 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 a number of 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 determining Beta Alpha Chapter House today. if they have interest in supporting it. • Most importantly, from all of this receive from our alumni. Keeping the best • Educating our alumni on the need for the feedback, establishing an achievable interest of the chapter in mind, the Housing project and identifying the people we will campaign goal and campaign execution Corporation Board (HCB) wants to be sure have involved to ensure success. plan. a project will be fnancially feasible, not • Identifying alumni interested and willing to The size and scope of changes made to only from an initial funding perspective, help as volunteers throughout the campaign the chapter house will be directly related but also in terms of sustainable operations and on one of the ongoing committees. to the level of support and interest that we over the long term. Why noW? ver 65% of Georgia Tech OGreek houses have been newly built or renovated over the past 20 years. This includes 16 out of 25 Fraternities and 6 out of 7 Sororities. Given the accelerating membership in our chapter, it Kappa Sigma is evident that with the current Kappa Alpha structure, our fraternity can’t continue to house brothers and compete against the other leading fraternities on campus. Though the chapter is currently thriving, it is now time to support the fraternity by constructing a new house that meets the needs of today’s students. Theta Chi Phi Gamma Delta