THE RESERVE COMPONENT OFFICER PROMOTION PROCESS

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Class of 1983 Fundraising
Objective Class of 1983 selection and funding of
a 30th Year reunion class gift that supports and
enhances the Margin of Excellence of the West
Point Experience.
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Gift Selection
Objective Identify 2-3 Gift opportunities or
combinations thereof along with a gift target for
the class to consider for the 30th year reunion
Team Time Line May-June
(Organization) July-August (Team Work)
September-October (Class Selection) Identify
Gift Target Identify Recognition
Levels Selection Matrix
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Gift Selection - Results

• Recognition
• 5,000
• 10,000
• 25,000
• 50,000
• Levels can be achieved by any combination
• of direct contribution or solicitation efforts.

Long Term Establish Legacy Gift Account
Pooled Income Fund in 501(C) (3)
30th Reunion Gift Target Goal 1.5M Stretch
Goal 2.0M
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Gift Selection Briefs
Goal 1,500,000
 Center for Global Leadership Combating
Terrorism Center Unrestricted
Endowments (Evenly Split Athletics, Academics,
Cadet Activities)  
Class Recognition and where possible special
recognition of the class e.g. 1983 Space Items
with Doug Wheelock on Discovery's STS-120 Mission.
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Objective Support establishment of the GLC
Vision Operating at the nexus of government,
technology, and society, the Global Leadership
Center prepares leaders, from cadets to
statesmen, to resolve the world's most
formidable challenges.
Purpose To launch West Points already
nationally recognized leader development
capability into the global sphere.
Global Leadership Center
Leadership Research Enterprise
World Leadership Forum
Leadership Simulation Lab
Leadership Conference Center
West Point Leadership Initiatives
Physical Leader Reaction Course

• Assess existing global simulation capabilities
• Collaborate to develop new simulation modalities
• Adapt military simulation practices for other use

• Establish a Chair of Global Leadership
  Development
• Attract world-class researchers practitioners
• Pursue exclusive government and non-government
  research initiatives

• Leverage West Points physical training focus
• Physically challenging fitness course
• Opportunities for leader and team development

• Showcase West Points unique leader development
  talent
• Aggressively expand in scope and scale leadership
  programs
• Provide greater reach back for Army leadership
  projects

• Leader in energy
• efficiency with a
• Green facility
• State-of-the-art
• conference facilities
• World class
• accommodations and
• dining facility

• Showcase West Points unique leader development
  talent
• Aggressively expand in scope and scale leadership
  programs
• Provide greater reach back for Army leadership
  projects

Class Recognition in a Centers Room.
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Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

•   Objective Endow a Class of 1983 Senior
  Fellow
• Since 9/11, West Point has a assumed a global
  role in improving the knowledge, analysis, and
  decision making of todays leaders.
• February 20, 2003 Privately Funded CTC was
  established at West Point with a mission of
  arming current and future leaders with the
  intellectual tools needed to defeat and deter
  terrorist threats to our nation.
• CTC has emerged a one of the top
  information/education and training resources and
  training resources in the fight against hostile
  ideologies which threaten the free world.
• On Our Watch - Terrorism has emerged as the
  number one threat with our class on the front
  line playing both a tactical and strategic role.
• Class Recognition in the CTC Directors Office
  the naming of the Class of 1983 Senior Fellow
  of one of Americas leading terrorism experts.
• For more information go to www.ctc.usma.edu.

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Unrestricted Endowments

•   Objective Unrestricted gift evenly spilt
  between Academics, Athletics, and Cadet
  Activities
• The Superintendents Endowment for Academics and
  the Superintendents Endowment for Athletics
  provide the Superintendent the flexibility to
  allocate funds to academic and athletic needs
  based on established priorities and the
  allocation of restricted gifts and
  non-appropriated funds otherwise available.
• Academic support includes honorariums for guest
  lecturers, cadet visitations to museums, academic
  conferences and historic battlefields, funding
  for foreign language immersion supervised intern
  programs and to support capstone projects solar
  powered cars, off-road vehicles, model airplanes,
  model bridges and other unique, but important,
  projects.
• The Directorate of Intercollegiate Athletics
  fields teams in 26 varsity sports and funds are
  required for team travel, equipment, uniforms and
  supplies.
• USMA has four separate developmental areas
  military, physical, academic, and the
  moral-ethical, which cuts across the first three
  areas and provides the foundation for a lifetime
  of service. The Cadet Activities program
  significantly enhances the development of cadets
  in all four of these areas and is an essential
  part of the West Point experience.
• Recognition Class Recognition in ODIA,
  Library, and Eisenhower Hall

  
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Gift Selection Process and Pledges

•  Class Gift Selection Process Ends October
  18, 2008 Detailed information available on-line
  ballots available at reunion, on-line and email
  vote and pledge via email or postal. Run-Off may
  be required for the top two if an item does not
  achieve 50 of the votes.
• Vote Now! Pledge Now!
• Fund Raising Committee Target - 1.5M and
  Stretch Goal 2M
• Major Giving Team
• Regimental and Company Leaders Team
• Affinity and Recognition Team
• Approach Personal, Broad Based Participation
• Timeline Obtain Pledges by December 31, 2008
  (6 Years of Effective Giving and Tax Benefits)
• On-Going Communications on the Class Web
  Site/Functions
• Current Status

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