Fresno State Athletics
Ogle Honored By NAADD
5/25/2007 12:00:00 AM | General
May 25, 2007
Fresno, Calif. - Pat Ogle, who has served as the executive director for the Bulldog Foundation since 1982, will be honored at the annual National Association of Athletics Development Directors. Ogle will receive the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award during the 14th annual NAADD Convention in Orlando, Fla., June 7-10.
Ogle graduated from Fresno State in 1965 and spent 17 years in television broadcasting with channels 47 and 24 as a sports editor, news anchor, reporter and producer. He was hired as the executive director of The Bulldog Foundation's (BDF) Annual Fund in 1982 and since then has directed a fund that has grown in donations from $600,000 to now over $4 million.
With membership ticket benefits included, the BDF now administers annual memberships of $7.9 million. Since 1986, the BDF annual fund has been the number-one fund raising operation in the United States that exclusively uses volunteers, and in 2000, the BDF was honored with the Central California Excellence in Business Award for all non-profits. Ogle was recognized by Fresno State in 2006 with the Top Dog Alum award from the College of Arts & Humanities.
In 1989, the National Conference for Athletic Fund Raisers named him Fund Raiser of the Year, and the following year, the California Valley Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives recognized him as Executive of the Year. Ogle was co-founder and director of the National Athletic Fund Raisers Workshop from 1990-1993 and in 1995 he was appointed to the NCAA's Foundation's Development Advisory Council.
He was charter president of NAADD in 1993, and in 1996 was honored by NAADD as the Fund Raiser of the Year. Ogle has been inducted into both the College of Sequoias Hall of Fame and the Fresno State Track and Field Hall of Fame, and in 2002, was recognized for his service and dedication to the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame where he has served as chair of the selection committee since 1985.
