FAMU 220 Quarterback Club starts $1 million athletics campaign

The 220 Quarterback Membership started as a gaggle of retirees having a weekly lunch and donating $500 every week to the soccer program.  From these humble beginnings, the group has grown into one of the efficient fundraising affinity teams for not solely FAMU Athletics however teams throughout the college.  On this week’s assembly, which was broadcast on Fb and YouTube, membership president Eddie Jackson introduced a brand new marketing campaign of $1 million for FAMU Athletics.

Whereas the group will not be an formally acknowledged Direct Assist Group (DSO), they’ve lent unprecedented help to FAMU Athletics over the previous years.  Just lately, the group raised $50,000 for FAMU’s ladies’s athletics groups in a matter of eight weeks.  It was that marketing campaign’s success that nudged Jackson to succeed in larger heights.

“I’m going to formally announce two weeks from at the moment, the kickoff of a million-dollar marketing campaign for ladies’s sports activities and common athletics,” Jackson stated.  A lot of the cash from the $50,000 we raised got here from these watching our weekly YouTube program we do each Wednesday.  I need to elevate $1 million over the subsequent 5 months.”

Jackson is engaged on the platform to simply accept donations

Jackson will make the official announcement and protocols for the fundraiser on the 220 Quarterback Membership’s March twentieth assembly.  He indicated that he wanted to provoke inner controls and strategies of accumulating the funds.

Through the years, the group has had its hand in supporting all applications inside FAMU Athletics.  They purchased the pitching machine for the softball program, offered the coolant restoration system for FAMU soccer yearly, supported the sports activities vitamin stations, and supported the varied coaches with funding for requests that got here in.  As the recognition of the group grew, so did the asks.  The group’s goal is to help the coaches and student-athletes with the assets they must be profitable each within the classroom and on the sector or courtroom.

Jackson will not be new to FAMU Athletics or elevating cash for FAMU.  He started his trek as sports activities info director for the good Jake Gaither.  From there he was promoted throughout the college and commenced working immediately with FAMU President Dr. Frederick Humphries.  At no time within the historical past of the college did it elevate extra money than throughout the Humphries period.  The system of attracting monies to FAMU, spearheaded by Humphries, Eddie Jackson, and the fiscal administration was a part of the components that helped the college purchase the No. 1 rating general by the Princeton Overview in 1997.  That’s not an HBCU rating, that was each school and college in America.

The environment is true for FAMU Athletics fundraising

With the reigning HBCU soccer nationwide championship staff, SWAC ladies’s cross nation and SWAC Indoor Monitor & Discipline championship groups, Florida A&M is doing what was anticipated of them after they modified conferences from the MEAC to the SWAC in 2021.  The college has retained its rating because the High Public HBCU by U.S Information and World Report for the fifth consecutive yr and is making headlines for all the precise causes. The Rattler nation has gained momentum that had been misplaced over a number of years of wrestle in numerous areas.

Jackson, who adamantly helps not solely athletics however applications throughout the campus is keen to get the fundraising marketing campaign going, utilizing know-how to help the method.  “The 220 Quarterback Membership is having its personal capital marketing campaign.  I feel we’re going to make it occur for our college,” he stated.

FAMU 220 Quarterback Membership begins $1 million athletics marketing campaign