The Telephone Outreach Program employs Radford University students to contact alumni, friends and parents during the academic year. The mission of these student-callers is to update biographical records and to discuss some exciting ways for all of the RU family to provide much-needed support for scholarships, facilities improvements and faculty recruitment and retention.

From January to May and from September to December, you may receive a call from one of our student callers. These Radford representatives call from our Student Calling Center, located at RU’s West Campus. 

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Our calling center features 16 automated computer stations utilizing a state-of-the-art telefundraising software suite called CampusCall. Our students call from 6 – 9 p.m. from Monday through Thursday and from 2 – 5 p.m. on Sundays (all times eastern).  Making approximately 1,500 calls per shift, our students work tirelessly to garner financial support for RU. For the 2007 fiscal year, our callers raised more than $350,000 for the University.

During the academic year, a variety of constituents will be asked to consider supporting a handful of different initiatives. Our students call on behalf of the Radford Fund, Advanced Degree Fund, Parents and Family Fund and the Varsity Club Fund. 

The Radford Fund represents gifts for current use, which can be used immediately to meet Radford University ’s most important needs and priorities. The Parents and Family Fund is designed especially for the parents and families of current and former students.  Each year, this initiative helps to fund improvements in the quality of student life on the RU campus.

Our students contact former RU athletes for the Varsity Club Fund to offer them a chance to give back to the sport in which they participated.  The Advanced Degree Fund support initiatives that directly benefit graduate students by increasing support for university funded assistantships and scholarships.