So i checked out his volunteering page listed on whatever that indeed clone site he uses was, and this blurb stuck out to me.
"There is no set schedule and we're very flexible. Our goal is to outreach between 30-50 organizations a day. If your schedule only allows you two-three days a week to help out, we welcome that, as long as the 20-50 quota is met."
First, of course, is the fact that he cant even remember what numbers he wrote down literally one sentance ago. But the second is the numbers themselves, now I'm going to put some cards on the table and say I do actually work for a 501c (work not volunteer, I ain't doin' shit free) where part of my job involves soliciting donations.
From my experience though I can confidently say those numbers reveal he has no idea what the fuck he's talking about as usual. For a small group of presumably 2-4 people to make 30-50 calls a day to organizations, not regular donors is staggering. When calling businesses or orginizations, you aren't just reading a one page script and asking for a signature or credit card you would be actively coordinating and sometimes arguing how much the donation is, tit for tat services, sponsored events, tax paperwork, regulatiory requirements, etc.
Each of those calls should, if done right, take at least a couples hours on the low side, but usually far more, especially considering the back and forth that will occur over multiple days and sometimes weeks. And that's not even counting that you need to have a game-plan tailored to them before you even pick up the phone
But I'm sure Russ thinks it's as easy cold calling the President of his local 4H club on the phone and saying a little 3 sentence sales pitch and on to the next person like it's the Red Cross getting people to come in for blood.
Edit: 501c not 401c, typo'd that shit.
No, see…Russ is going to make phone calls.
Other people, like politicians, make phone calls and get donation money in return. Russ is going to make phone calls, therefore Russ is going to get money. Just like how women like men in nice suits and Russ owns a suit, therefore Same Thing.
And yeah I 100% believe that Russ thought he could get a list of money-having groups or foundations and just call them up and say, “this is my PAC which is super important, can you give me money?” And they’d cut a cheque and send it right over.
Just like how Russ thought calling the factory where Katy Perry’s clothing line is manufactured will get you in touch with the actual Katy Perry. Life is just that simple!
Also if he wants an intern to make 50 calls a day within an eight hour workday, each call would have to be a maximum of 9.6 minutes long and the interns would get not breaks or lunch.
Nine minutes is enough to convince some organization to send you hundreds or thousands of dollars of their money, right?
Even if you factor in a lot of “no” answers to those calls, it would take more than 9 minutes to make the call, explain who you are, be transferred to the correct person, then make your pitch.
Maybe Russ is factoring in his own stupidity by assuming he will have a lot of wrong numbers.
OTOH if we go with Russ’ lowest estimate for daily calls, 20, that brings it up to an amazing 20ish minutes per call. Which, again, Russ assumes is enough time to convince an org to cut you a cheque for a sizable chunk of money.
Or maybe Russ thinks he and his Hot Intern Jennifer will get together twice a week for super-cool all nighters, just dialing those phones round and round over boxes of late-night pizza. Too bad every organization they call keeps normal business hours and will be closed.