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VPIRG is seeking a Development Manager to steward and grow our network of over 40,000 supporters and lead multiple fundraising campaigns to annually raise over $2.5 million.
Now celebrating our 45th year, VPIRG is a strong and growing advocacy organization with 20 full-time, year-round staff and a team of over 60 summer canvassers. Because our power comes from our members, the Development Manager must ensure members feel heard and have a voice in the organization. It's also why all VPIRG staff participate in activities to steward, retain and strengthen this membership. As such, a passion for training and empowering staff to succeed in fundraising is as important to this role as personal excellence in fundraising.
The ideal candidate brings both experience in fundraising program planning and analysis as well as a proven ability to run the day-to-day tasks required of individual donor management. The Development Manager will lead a dynamic team to conduct: major donor drives, donor prospecting and cultivation; direct mail, phone and online giving campaigns; grant-writing and related member communications and cultivation activities. This is a full-time, exempt position based in Montpelier.
About VPIRG: VPIRG's mission is to promote the health and well-being of Vermont's environment, people and locally-based economy by informing and mobilizing citizens across the state. From fighting climate change to protecting public health, air and water to reining in the influence of big money in politics—VPIRG has a track record of advancing solutions to pressing problems facing society. You can find more information about VPIRG and our campaigns on our web site at: www.vpirg.org.
About the position: The Development Manager will contribute to VPIRG's work by coordinating and implementing various components of VPIRG's fundraising and development activities.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Development planning and analysis: Craft annual fundraising plan to raise over $1.5 million annually from individual giving campaigns including: major donor, monthly giving, direct mail, phone campaigns, door canvassing, events, online fundraising and planned giving. Develop a multi-year fundraising strategy to grow revenue.
- Grants management: Coordinate the full range of activities required to renew existing and seek new grants totaling over $1 million annually, including collaborating with program leaders to craft proposals and reports, stewarding relationships with foundation contacts and identifying new potential funders.
- Donor solicitation: Identify, cultivate, solicit and steward a portfolio of major donors.
- Writing and communications: Draft/edit direct mail, phone and online appeals and contribute to developing other member communications and informational materials including newsletter, campaign updates, grant reports, website and brochures.
- Research: Conduct donor prospecting and foundation research; follow best practices and trends in fundraising and development and help apply these strategies to our work.
- Cultivation and engagement: Develop and implement innovative ways to engage, educate and excite our base of supporters and groom lifelong members through events, recognition and other methods.
- Strategic analysis: Analyze metrics of fundraising efforts; assess, project and track membership rates of renewal and giving trends; assist with budget projections and monitoring of multi-stream fundraising efforts and membership growth strategies.
- Staff management and training: Supervise Development & Administrative Assistant and support all staff in meeting fundraising goals through effective training, motivation and oversite.
- At least three years fundraising experience required, including a successful track record of managing multi-channel campaigns and in-person solicitation of gifts.
- Must understand the metrics of fundraising as well as the art of building strong personal relationships to build our organization's member base and financial strength.
- Must be extremely personable, have a persuasive way with words (both verbal and written), and have the ability to tell an inspiring, donor-centered story.
- Detail-oriented and thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Advanced level Microsoft Excel skills preferred.
- Familiarity with the Raisers Edge is a plus.
- Experience with grassroots organizing and issue-oriented campaigns or groups desired.
- Commitment to the issues on which VPIRG works and a mission-driven approach are essential.
Compensation: Competitive salary depending on experience. VPIRG offers an excellent benefits package including employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance, long-term disability insurance, employer-matching IRA contributions of up to 3% of salary, and six weeks of annual leave.
Application Process: Apply online by Monday, April 10th. Seeking start in May. VPIRG is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages women, minorities and members of the LGBTQ community to apply.


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And when the klaxon cut off, the room became perfectly, absolutely silent.
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I needed a Private loan to finish the last two terms of my BS Degree. What should feel like a huge accomplishment is now causing me extreme financial heartache. Sallie Mae is not willing to work with folks to pay back their loans, they say they are and they advertise they will, but buyer beware. They are not. They ask a lot of personal questions about finances to give you options. One of the options is Forbearance, but you cannot get one unless you can prove you can make the payments after the Forbearance is completed. (Which, by the way is $50.00 every three months and a limit of a year.)
The other options provided do not take off enough per month to make it worthwhile. If you are one day past due on your bill forget any assistance at all until you pay the bill. If you just can't pay at all you are pretty much forced to default. Other sources have stated then all you receive from Sallie Mae is collection calls and no offer to help you pay your loan even if you are willing to. The options they give are not possibilities. If you can stick to your Federal Student Loans, just stay there. They are willing to work with you and I have had no problems making payments to them.
I filled out my money order sending in with my name thinking with my name it would be added to my account for that month's payment. Who writes their Social Security Number on their money order but because I did not write my Social Security number on the money order I lost the account number. Then I realized I was being charged for a late fee. So I called and said, "I have been sending thru payments". They said it was not posted to my account because of not having social on it. Then guess what before I got that information I had already mailed in my other payment. Same way with my name with a money order I got the answer too late. They agreed to credit my for the first one but I never got credit for the second one that was sent in mail.
My story is long and involved and utterly frustrating. My identical twin boys have several Sallie Mae loans, unfortunately. They are the only game in town that makes it easy to become their hostage. Bottom line, they need the money or they will not be able to finish their college educations. We recently applied for their last semester, which will be this summer, 2017. Both boys have NO credit history. They have NO credit cards or payments of any type. Their only debt is for school (and that's extraordinary). Both are in debt for the same amount of money. On paper, they are exactly alike, even their majors are the same. After they applied for their loans they were each granted an offer of an interest rate. One boy was offered 6%. The other boy was offered 9%. That's a difference of 3% which equates to hundreds of dollars over the life of the loan.
We've made many phone calls to try to educate ourselves as to how this is possible. Never have we been given an answer...except that the "computer" figures out the rate based on an "algorithm". That's it. In the meantime Sallie Mae told me to contact TransUnion as their credit scores are different from each other. TransUnion replied that the score for the boy that is being offered 9% was different than what they reported to Sallie Mae... They indicated that Sallie Mae must have changed it. How is this legal? It is terribly sad what we are doing to our youth today with this kind of underhanded business practices. It's appalling.
Sallie Mae preys on those with poor credit! My interest rate has increased 3 times in less than a year. They try to say it's because they belong to LIBOR. They're liars and pathetic! Get your money anywhere except from this company. They're a total RIPOFF!!!
America's future, saddled with debt, that seems eternity that will follow them. Great reward for trying to better yourself via College educations. The "scam"? Sallie Mae's predator like tactics, by helping "defer" payments until after graduation, with the guise that "We make it easy for you by allowing payments later." However, when you graduate, it may take you years to pay off the "accumulated interest" with your principle never going down. They laugh to the bank, and with interest rates that are never really favorable. Try dealing with them, do they care? Not really. Offer you any real solutions? Not really. The "shame"? That Sallie Mae's name is tied to the US Gov't, and that the US Gov't allows these predator like tactics to occur. Sinking America's future = shame on you!
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I thought I would go back to school but I didn't have time so I decided to do it online. So I got a loan through Sallie Mae. I started making my payments back and they started getting higher and interest started going up and I only have social security. I made as much as I could and with my other bills I just couldn't afford it anymore. Now they call and send me letters saying they are going to take our taxes. I just wish someone would make them go through what I am going through!
I had to drop out of college for health reasons. I have been on Social Security disability for years and thought a degree might help me get a job I could do even with my health. It didn't happen. Worst mistake I ever made was taking a private loan with these crooks. I am 59 years old and cannot work at all. My husband is nearly 66 and retires this year. My little SSDI check doesn't even cover our rent and his paychecks barely cover our other bills and food. Sallie Mae has done nothing to help even though my doctor has certified me as fully and permanently disabled. Well, my loans are private, so they can't touch my ssdi and after my husband fully retires, they cannot take his SS checks. I just wish they'd stop the harassment. I've told them to cease and desist. They must be made to understand they are actually violating law by acting the way they do. They do not care.
Sallie Mae offered me help when I was pushed up against a rock and a hard place. I needed $12,400.00 fast or I would not be able to finish my last year of college. I exhausted my financial aid and my parents would not take out another loan or cosign one. Sallie Mae was the only option at the time due to my credit and being in college I had little income coming in. They were quick to help me but failed to explain exactly what I was getting into.
When I got out of college I had a 6 month window until repayment started, then I got the first bill. I owed somewhere around $290.00 a month (Oct. 2014). I was floored... I paid and I paid and I paid... I NEVER missed a payment and was NEVER late, ALWAYS EARLY. I was getting NOWHERE. My interest rate had increased a couple times from what it started at currently it is 9.750%... Outrageous for any loan. I called several times pleading for help and got the same answers time and time again. I could enter into a forbearance for up to 12 months at a time and every 3 months pay $50.00 for each loan which I had two loans so $100.00... interest would continue to accrue and be tacked onto my loan and at a 9.750% interest rate (I called recently) it would amount to about $62.00 in interest per month equaling $186.00 every 3 months. This would cause my total amount owed to increase exponentially over a year.
I had recently called several times in the past month asking for documentation from the time I agreed to the loan to now and I asked for all payment information. The first time I asked I told them to fax it to me. It would take 48 hours to get that information. It never came. I asked a second time for that information to be mailed to me (now over two weeks ago) it was NEVER mailed to me. Because I did everything over the phone and online I have never held a hard copy of any documentation on what I actually signed up for (bad on my part definitely but shame on them for taking advantage of a broke college student desperate to finish schooling like a good little citizen). I asked several times to speak with supervisors and was told a written request from the manager has to be submitted. I never received any call (I may have but I was unable to answer at the time and NO messages were ever left).
Over the past 3 years this company has received not 1, not 2, but almost $3000.00 in interest!!! In 3 years I paid on time, always paying an extra $50.00 here $100.00 there. I barely made a dent in the loan. From $12,400--->$7,200.00 (current amount). That's $5,200+$3000=$8200. THEY HAVE RECEIVED $8200.00 in blood, sweat and tears. But it didn't dent that loan at all. All I wanted was some help, put me in a better interest rate, that's all I wanted. I know I took the money out and I wanted to pay it back at a fair rate but to no avail. They did not help me. It's not like I couldn't pay it. It was just leaving my pockets empty and me living paycheck to paycheck.
The last representative I spoke with gave me probably the most asinine response to my situation. I quote "Miss your payment and collections will call you. They may be able to work something out with you but it's not guaranteed." I was floored. I never miss a payment for ANYTHING and I was not about to risk my almost PERFECT credit score over it. Needless to say they SUCK. A greedy, dishonest business not willing to work with those who truly want to pay back their loans. I never minded paying them back at a lower rate. They would have continued to profit from the interest and eventually made the money of the loan back. JOKE'S ON THEM NOW... I was lucky enough to have a relative willing to pay the loan off for me and pay them back interest free. So SALLIE MAE if you read this I WILL MAKE IT MY MISSION TO MAKE SURE NO ONE BORROWS FROM YOU CROOKS.
I cosigned for my daughter's loan in 2011 and 2012. This was before the separation of Sallie Mae and Navient. They claim to be separate companies but can tell you exactly how much you owe each one. I filed a complaint with the CFPB, and suddenly, they could get someone to phone me that supposedly could resolve the problem. Before that, I'd been bounced around from one person to the next with different answers from every one. Basically, they have set the payments for the loans way beyond my daughter's ability to pay. So, they have come after me. I had harassing phone calls multiple times every day. I told them to stop phoning my cell but they continued to do so.
Today, I spoke with John who tried to use "used car salesman" techniques with me. I kept the upper hand and he became more hedging. For example, he said he'd send me all the details. Then he said he'd file the paperwork with the CFPB, as if I would trust them to not doctor the paperwork. I have the originals, which I never told him, and I will be comparing them. He tried to pressure me into naming an amount that my daughter can pay, which I refused to do. I suggested that he should consider that if they are a "private" bank then they have the power to extend the payments out so that she can afford to make them. Of course, then they are not free to do that??? One evasion after the other.
You can't claim to be a new bank since 2014, and then when challenge about the fact that we signed our documents before that date then they were new in 2009. These people are loan sharks with aggressive debt collection tactics. Predators doesn't even begin to cover these guys. Contact your state Atty General, file complaints against both Sallie Mae and Navient. Contact your state and federal representatives. Keep the pressure on, find an atty to take the case. They are arrogant enough to imagine that they can't be touched. They are monsters.
I use to not believe the people that have had all the problems with SM but it caught up to me. Ridiculous interest rate. (And I have really good credit mind you.) Increased payments without notice. (Which is interesting since they have no problem sending a stupid amount and mail and emails.) Getting ahold of a real person to talk to is impossible, and when you do they have no idea about anything. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Sallie Mae is awful.
This is the absolute worst company to ever get a private student loan with. They don't even deserve one star. I have been receiving multiple calls every day and two months later they still have not handled the issue. They say a form has not been received when I confirmed twice with the account manager that the deferment letter was received. They are only after money and have no concern for students or graduates. I'm literally in tears of frustration. Please don't choose Sallie Mae.
I had student loan with CitiBank. I moved to new location and reported my new address to Citibank. At the same time my student loan was purchase by Sallie Mae. I did not receive any mails from Sallie Mae. Few months had passed and I called Sallie Mae after finding out that Sallie Mae purchase my loan. I had late payments. I tried to explain my situation but they did not care. I paid my loan fully. Then when I was trying to purchase a house the late payments were on my record. I called Sallie Mae and explained my situation and told them to take out late payments from my record. They refused and I couldn't purchase a house. Don't get loan from Sallie Mae. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS.
I've had quite a few less than impressive encounters with Sallie Mae student loans. However, once I started the automatic payment plan everything was fine for a few months... Then I switched banks. I changed my bank information on the site, paid my loan manually for that month, and signed up for automatic payments through the new bank. There have been multiple issues. Including starting the automatic payments and then suddenly not making them. Causing late fees and my credit to go bad. So I paid manually and then they randomly would withdraw automatically certain months. I've had to call my bank and put a hold on them twice. They've attempted to withdraw from my closed bank account even though I've deleted it from the site, and it just reappears. Now I'm attempting to make payments and it won't go through at all. I've called my bank and ensured it's not on their end. It's beyond the point of ridiculous.
I signed (and aunt cosigned) for a $10,000 loan with Sallie Mae in 2013. They informed me that I wouldn't owe them a penny until 6 months after I graduated. However, 1month (this was October, I started school in September) into school they started harassing me telling me that I owed them money. I asked them how when I just started school!? I told the agent that I had been promised by multiple Sallie Mae agents that I wouldn't owe until 6 months after I graduated (before and after I signed).
The person I spoke with said they didn't know but I owed them and if I didn't pay they would take action against me and my cosigner. So of course, as a scared 18 year old I payed up. I had just gotten a minimum wage paying, part time job to pay my phone bill, etc, so I fortunately had the $75 they were asking for. However, it didn't stop there. I continued to keep calling (and getting transferred hundreds of times) asking how my account could already be in default as I had literally just gotten the loan, still no answer. I literally spent hours on the phone trying to speak to these people, someone, anyone who could tell me about my account and where my money was going! It is my right to know what is going on with my account, but all the agents were acting like it was a big secret or something, which it indeed turned out to be.
My cosigner started calling me asking why it was in default and that it was affecting her credit so she would sue me if I didn't pay. I literally didn't have anything except a part time job, a cell phone, and a car that was given to me from a family member. Finally, months after calling numerous times and speaking with countless people, I got an answer from a sallie mae agent and she informed me that what I was actually paying this whole time (from the 1month (October) after starting school in Sept, 2013) was the interest on the loan, not the actual loan, and that I owed them over $5000 in interest.
Shocked, I asked if there was anything I could do because I was a struggling student and barely even surviving as it is, and I was told no the only option I had was to pay it. I even told her that I had been scammed by them and she didn't have any answer so I kept getting transferred, still with no answers. I struggled for months until eventually I had to drop out of school to look for work full time just to pay the loan because they were harassing me daily! Almost immediately (1 month after quitting school) they started calling again saying now I owed nearly $400, instead of the $75 I had been paying, I was floored.
Again I asked how is this possible and no one would give me an answer, everyone I spoke to said I have to pay or they would take action against me!! Still to this day, three years later and being in contact with them constantly, no one from Sallie mae has contacted me or tried to resolve this issue with me. The only calls I ever get from them is a recording saying I owe them money! I still tried to pay them despite them lying to me plus my hardships and they wouldn't work with me at all! All they have ever offered is to give me a deferment for $50 (claiming that it goes towards interest), which I have done.
I don't know what to do, but I have filed a complaint with the BBB, and now here. Still no call from Sallie Mae or offer to help from any agents thus far. THIS COMPANY IS COMMITTING HUGE FRAUD AND SCAMS ON CLIENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN LOANS WITH THEM! I have seen online they had been sued in 2014 for fraud against clients and they agreed upon a settlement. However, what about the rest of us who have been scammed by Sallie Mae and have gotten no settlement check, let alone any answers!? What are we supposed to do next? So far, I have just been paying them but I feel this is so wrong and I definitely have been scammed and treated unfairly! Seems like this is extremely common amongst the people who have, unfortunately, taken out loans with sallie mae, in one form or another. Thanks in advance.
I have a student loan in Sallie Mae, and as soon as 6 months hit after I graduate from school my payment became from $45 to $495. I have not taken the nursing exam yet so I have no money to pay for that very high amount and my parents couldn't help me because they are struggling with financial too. So I called them to do a deferment at least 3 months till I pass my exam and get the job I went to school for, and so the struggle started.
First, every time I call them they keep transferring me back to automated machine or transfer me to a person, and hangs up once I addressed the reason why I called. I have called them a hundred times and they kept doing it. 2nd, when I finally get to talk to a person that didn't hung up on me, so I told her that I needed to defer my loan for at least 3 months, and she told me that she wouldn't help me unless I pay the amount due on that month. So I paid them $495 (I had to borrow money from a friend because I don't have that much amount). And again, when I tried to call them for a deferment, they did it again.
Every time I call them they keep transferring me to answering machine or they hang up on me. After more than 20 calls, I finally talked to someone and she were to help me. Before we went over to processing the deferment, I asked the lady to do cancel my automatic payment that I had made for September 2016 and October 2016, and she told me that she was able to cancel that. While we were processing my deferment, I have to pay $150 for a deferment fee so they can process it, the lady said that it would take 3-5 business days for the result and they will be sending a mail and an email for the result, BUT THEY DIDN'T.
I only found out that my loan were finally on deferment on my account online. It says "On deferment till Jan. 6, 2017." So a month passed. When I checked my account summary on my bank I saw that it was negative $400. When I went over to my statement it showed that Sallie Mae had charged me $485 on October 28, 2017 while I am on deferment. I thought the lady on Customer Service had cancel my automatic payment, it turned out she didn't!!! I almost fell out of my chair after I saw may bank account with NEGATIVE $400!!! This is so irresponsible of them!!! That is why I did a deferment for 3 months because I don't have money to pay for it until I pass my exam and get a job. Plus I paid Sallie Mae $150 for the deferment!!! This is so frustrating!!!
I haven't really had too much of a problem with Sallie Mae since taking loans out with them in 2013. The one thing I can't stand about them is the annoying amount of phone calls when your payments are due. My loan has been in deferment since I started my master's degree, so I have not been making payments. My mom was co-signer and my statements go to my parents address so I don't always get them on time. Apparently I missed two months of payments, and within a week (Oct 25-Oct 28) they have called me 19 times!!
I ignored the first two calls because it was from a number I did not recognize, and I figured if it was important whoever was calling would leave a voicemail. Well Sallie Mae does not leave voicemails apparently, and on the fourth call I picked up the phone to a recording telling me to call them back for information about my account. It wasn't even an actual person and there was no information about what was going on with my account. I understand giving someone a reminder call to let them know that payments are due, but 19 calls in the span of four days is harassment, especially since I was making payments on time before my loans went into deferment.
So I took a loan out from Sallie Mae to cover a year for college. Worst mistake of my life. I got my grandfather to co-sign the loan for me and they immediately accepted us. Well I first signed up for auto bill pay and that was mistake number one. They input all of my information wrong. Got my first late letter in the mail but that was after they bombarded my family with phone calls and letters. Manually paid the first month. I call them up again to try and resolve the issue so they can just take it out of my paycheck every month. Wrong again. They did not accept that payment method either.
So I finally manually set up all of my information online hoping that this will work. Everything seemed to be on the up and up until one day a rep called my father saying my information was deleted and they needed to "update" my information. Fast forward to my senior year of college, I get a text from my father saying Sallie Mae tried calling my aunt to get in touch with me. Well I was immediately confused as to why they wouldn't have called me. I get on the phone with my rep and am immediately transferred back and forth to different departments. Turns out MY PAYMENTS WEREN'T ACCEPTED FOR OVER 120 DAYS!!! They told me there was a problem on their end that they didn't catch! That if I didn't make a minimum payment my loans were going to have to be paid in full!!
I immediately said if my loan payments were not being accepted then why wasn't I told? The rep immediately transferred me to a supervisor after being on hold for 45 minutes! I am several days away from accepting my degree early and in the process of finding a job! These people are scam artists and completely unhelpful!!!
I currently have student loans with Sallie Mae. I graduated in 2015 and have started paying off my large amount of loans (PS: Private schools are expensive) I have. As a recent graduate I have had difficulty finding a full time job that pays me enough to make my payments. Luckily I have wonderful parents who help me out. My complaint is the obsessive amount of phone calls I receive from Sallie Mae regarding my account and payment that is due. Over this past week, Oct. 17-20, I have been called 17 times!! Some as early as 8 a.m. and other as late at 10 p.m.! I understand I have a payment due, but calling me every other hour is not going to make me pay it any faster. I am aware of my payment when I get an email about it a week or two in advance. You DO NOT need to call me everyday, multiple times a day to remind me.
It is the most annoying thing and I can honestly say that if you call me once and LEAVE A VOICEMAIL instead of not leaving one and calling me every hour on the hour, I will be more likely to call back or make my payment. I have learned to ignore the calls and go about my day, but at some point it is a little out of control. I know this won't stop the calls but I hope they understand this is outrageous. I will make my payment for goodness sake! Stop badgering me!
I went to Westwood College online, a few years ago, Paying on a 14,000 dollar loan, thru Sallie Mae, and the Dept. of Education. 7000 for each loan. Am I crazy or no. The thing is I only went for 5 and a half months and dropped out. Can't believe I owe 14,000 for 5 and a half months, and I have been paying for years, maybe 3. Now Sallie Mae is saying I missed a payment, which I haven't. Now the harassing phone goes day and night, and stupid me they asked where I work. Now I'm sure I will get harass now at my work. Can you help, or guide me in the right direction.
My experience with Sallie Mae has been horrible. My daughter had a loan with them for school in which I am a cosigner on the loan. I got sick and my daughter had to put school on hold for awhile to help me out. Before I could completely recover, the harassment started and has not let up. They call us constantly and even at my work place in which I explained that I'm not allowed to get personal calls and asked them to stop before they get me terminated. They do not care. If I get terminated I explained they won't get anything. My daughter cannot afford to pay them a lump sum of money and the payment they are trying to bully out of us neither of us can pay due to my still trying to recover from being sick, yet they do not care. They harassed her to tears and commenced to tell her what she should do to get the money.
These people act as if they do not understand the plight that everyone is not rich and if they were they wouldn't apply for their loan. Please do not make the mistake of acquiring a loan from them because it will be the worst thing you've ever done. You'll never get any peace. I hate my daughter ever got a loan with them because they do not care about the consumer at all and it's obvious they do care if you go through personal issues and cannot make the full payment they want. They don't even try and work with you. Just tell you what you can do. I plan on going to school myself soon in the future, but I assure you if I need a loan I will sooner pull out my own teeth than deal with this company ever again! Again, this company is a nightmare.
Where to begin with this company, they've been a nightmare from the beginning and they never seem to get better! I fell for the low monthly payment of $25 and then got slammed with a much higher payment right around Christmas. When I called to see if they could help I was rudely told I could either default on the loan or go back to school and defer it... Yeah, not helpful. That was several years ago and I'm still paying on that loan, which they told me I'd have paid off in October, but somehow my payments don't seem to add up and my interest rate got raised and I've been paying more than they ask each month on time.
Then there was a matter of the loan that was under my mom's name, my sister's social security number, my school, and some random loan amount neither of us had chosen. When we called to ask about it and see whose it really was, if it was anyone's at all since it was so messed up, we of course didn't get any help and were pretty much told that we would just have to pay it.
Then there was the mystery loan that popped up 3 years after I had graduated. We have been paying on multiple loans and one day we get a letter from the department of education about a loan that was in default for 3 YEARS! Once again we called Sallie Mae and they had the nerve to say they tried contacting us about it but we never made payments... because yeah, we wanted to pay every loan except that one! Not to mention the fact that they had our house phone, my cell phone and email address, and our physical address. Pretty sure if they tried to get a hold of us like they said they would have done it. They had multiple opportunities to contact us.
I absolutely DO NOT recommend this company to anyone for any reason. They've been nothing but horrible and useless for about 8 years and I can't wait to be done with them (whenever that day is going to be). I don't feel comfortable giving them one star, they deserve 0, and even that wouldn't reflect how awful they are. Avoid this company like the plague they are.
Sallie Mae is doing so horribly they had to change their name to NAVIENT. They're still horrible. I've had multiple issues with them and their customer service is so rude. Here's some examples of their rudeness: I'd taken care of a bill the day before. The day after, Sallie Mae calls. I say "Oh I've already gotten that taken care of." He says "Well obviously it hasn't been taken care of otherwise we wouldn't be calling now would we?" Guy calls and tries to keep me on the phone. I tell him I'm out and would like to wait until I'm home to look at the computer and my accounts.
He keeps me on, saying "Oh well we can just do a post-dated check or a card" and I say "I'd much rather do it when I'm at the computer so I can make sure everything's straight" and he tries his best to keep me on the phone. Finally he says "Yeah what's the REAL reason you can't pay today?" I didn't say I COULDN'T PAY! I just said I wanted to make sure my accounts were in order before I start doing post dated checks!
He just called again today and I said I had to call him back. He said "Well you said you'd call back Friday and you never did!" Actually I did and it went straight to a machine. So he kept saying "So I'm gonna call back and you better answer! You're gonna answer right? You better answer!" They just make everything so uncomfortable and aren't nice at all!
My son took student loans to finish his college. He graduated in 2014. He has met EVERY requirement of the "remove co-signer application" available on their website. His credit score is north of 775. No loans other than the student loans...and the denied it, saying loan to debt ratio was too high??? I contacted my state representative, and NBC Responds, the television station seeks to help people with problems that they can't seem to resolve. Neither got far. The BIG BANK is boss, and with 43% of people in default on student loans, they will do anything to hold onto co-signors...it is wrong. Just be frickin honest, and put on your website, you will not be able to remove co-signer unless they die or loan is paid off. YOU SUCK SALLIE MAE!!!
My son borrowed money and I was the co-signer. I can not even make up how bad the customer service is. Once he graduated and started to work his student loans went up from 25.00 a month to 540.00 a month. We called and got them dropped to 205 a month. The process was set up with Sallie Mae and by Sallie Mae. It took 6 one-hour long or more phone calls to get it straight. Phone calls so bad that I do not understand how a organization ran like this could be in business. One call I was transferred 8 times, the record is 10. There is so many hidden items in the loan contract and the way they conduct business is worst. Please parents and students, find other funding.
So my parents co-signed on a $10,000 loan for me. My parents live in a different state than I do. Now, if I am like three days late with my payment here's what happens: My dad texts me, "Sallie Mae is calling multiple times per day on your loan." I start getting automated calls from them a couple hours later (outside business hours so I can't call back right away).
I call them the next day, make a payment and ask them to stop calling my parents when this happens. The calls continue for two more days, and it starts over the next time I'm a couple days late. I concede they have the legal right to call my parents, but I thought that would be if there were indications that I would default; not that I was a couple days late. And why they would call my parents before they call me is beyond comprehension.
In 2002 I went to college and graduated early in 2004. One of my loans was with Sallie Mae and I borrowed $14,000 for school. Today is 2016. Yes 12 years later guess what my loan balance is - a whopping $17400.00 and we make monthly payments. Now I took math in school and for some reason our payments do not touch the principal. It just adds up. And we have paid $275.00 monthly. You figure it out... and more to pay... not sure how this is possible. But it is. We continue to pay due to credit, we would be ruined if we did not pay this... a life time of sorrow.
I co-signed for a loan for my son who is out of school but has no job. The deferment period is over and Sallie Mae whets their money. I am a single parent, have school loans of my own. A few payments missed, they called me, I paid at least half and asked if any information was sent that can have a negative effect on my credit report. I was told no. Today I found out that they lied to me. My score is down 80 POINTS!!! EVERYONE KNOWS HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A GOOD CREDIT SCORE!! I have heard horror stories about Sallie Mae but I am now having my own experience!!! It sucks to be between the realm of 'rich' and 'poor'. You do not qualify for assistance and you do not make enough to pay your own way so you have to resort to the likes of Sallie Mae!!!
I wish with all of my heart that I had never heard of Sallie Mae and never helped my child apply for a loan and co-signed these stupid loans. We could not get any loans anywhere else even with good credit. We are out of deferments with Sallie Mae. My child don't have a job right now. She is trying to find something. I don't understand what is going to happen. She has tried to make some kind of payment each month, but can't make their high payments. We have called and talked to Sallie Mae almost every month and never get straight answers. I couldn't make payments all the time when she was in school, and I am unable to help much now with my husband unable to work due to being injured at work. Am I going to lose everything I own over this? I am worried sick but don't know what to do and can't find anyone to help me. I found this site this time. Is there anyone out there that can at least direct me where to go for help?
I wish I had read these reviews prior to falling prey to this Legal Loan Shark of a company. I, like the rest of us that want to further the education of our children, had to pay for everything - no grants, no nothing. However, I been paying all four loans while my son was in school from the start, 4 years of it, that was over $1,000 a month every month for 4 years. Then he graduated, Whoopie. Can't find a job. I send each payment (2) separate accounts, two separate bill pay checks sent. I send extra. I get told that I am behind. I asked, "How could that be, I send more than the minimum required amounts each month." Ready for this explanation.
After my 7th call to these ignorant turds, hung up on, or "I'm sorry, sir, I can't hear you."
This Sallie Mae corporation is nothing more than a legal Loan shark that sucks the life out of every person that falls for their "Loans". Once they get you to sign on the dotted line, they got you and if I worked at this Pyramid Ponzi scam ** hole and spoke to the customers the way they do, I would have been fired. No wonder education is not within the reach of any American here. I hope Trump plucks your feathers and expose you for what you really are. Out for yourselves.
Sallie Mae is the worst loan company I have worked with, and I will regret my decision until the day I die. Sallie Mae promises new loan buyers the world, but once you sign the papers, their well-wishes become fangs filled with venom. When I first applied for a Sallie Mae loan, I was hooked by their low-interest rate (which, compared to the other loan providers, 6% was great). After signing the dotted line, that 6% became 9%. When I argued it, the customer service reps would either sit there in silence, laugh or just hang up on me.
Another issue is that they are not willing to work with you, at all / no matter what (especially post the forbearance stage). They want me to pay 797.13 a month on top of another loan that is from a different company... I can afford 1/2 of that, easily. BUT, rather than getting something instead of nothing, they declined every solution I had and just hung up on me. I begged and pleaded, but they would rather have my co-signer and I go into default than to work with me.
The customer service portion is a joke. One rep called me a liar when I told him I am borrowing money to pay my loans (really??). Another rep laughed at me when I told her of my issues, and she told me "Sucks to be you, kid." and hung up on me. Another rep said "I have better things to do than work with people like you." and hung up on me. These are three of the MANY calls I had with them, most of them either equal to worst than what I just said. They really make Comcast customer service look like angels.
Finally, I am in a situation where the money I make doesn't compare to the payments required. One rep, laughing while he said it, told me to find another place to buy-out my loans. I may just do that because I'm working myself to death for nothing. I wish the absolute worst to Sallie Mae, and I truly believe in karma. Companies like Sallie Mae are the reason why people are struggling to this day. I made the choice to go to college, I graduated top of my major, I work harder now than I ever did to survive. What goes around, comes around, Sallie Mae.
UPDATED ON 07/23/2016:After writing my previous review, I was contacted by Sallie Mae's Office of the Customer Advocate. In their message, they left me a phone number to call. I suddenly felt like my prayers were going to be answered, and that my payments would become more manageable. NOPE. Instead, when I called the number and I was immediately sent to a representative (whom I want to publicly name, because she was a class piece-of-work, BUT if I do, I feel that Sallie Mae will find another way to punish me). The representative introduced herself to me, apologized for my experience, and stated that she was going to listen to all my calls in hopes to fixing the issues that I had. She never once said "We will try to find a way to help you pay what you can", instead... just "fix the issues that I had".
She told me to wait two days, and she would call me back. After waiting those two day, she contacted me. She immediately reminded me that I was being recorded and I must understand this (immediately igniting shivers of rage within me). She promptly followed that she found no proof to the experiences I had, and professionally called me a liar. She stated she only went back to "2015", to which I have been having these issues with Sallie Mae reps since 2014 (when I graduated). After telling her what I stated was still the truth, she just replied "Yup" and I began to hear an onslaught of "taptaptap" in the background (now documenting her behind).
Long story short, after going back and forth with her (and hearing an unending onslaught of "taptaptap" in the background), I bluntly asked her "Did Sallie Mae reach out to me to help me out OR did they seriously contact me JUST to clear their customer service's name?" She evaded the question and told me, instead, that ONCE AGAIN Sallie Mae will not help me lower my current payments. Sallie Mae's reasoning is as follows: Since I am "paying" my loans, I am therefore not considered "in financial difficulty", even though I frequently call them, begging to lower the monthly payments.
Sallie Mae's wants me is purposely not pay my loans (and call them before 15 day past-due date), then have Sallie Mae NOW take both my co-signer's and my financial information, run a financial report, and make a new payment pooling our incomes. When I disagreed with this, saying it was stupid, and said that I didn't want my brother now getting pulled down with me, her actual response was "Well, he shoulda knew what he was getting into once he signed the papers. That's what a co-signer is for, right? You can't make your payments, then he can. If you didn't want to put him at risk, you should never have used him." Really? REALLY??
What we knew when we agreed to signing up with Sallie Mae is that I was promised that I would end up paying the loans back at LOW INTEREST/PAYMENT (hence why we were brought to Sallie Mae in the first place... their LOW REPAYMENT PRICES), not the factor that I signed a blood document, seeded with lies, so that they would cripple my brother and I should I experience any struggles at a price tag THEY personally decided.
In the end, classic horrid customer service being horrid again, combined with ruthless business tactics. If I hit a miracle and I am actually able to pay off this upcoming month's loans, I will immediately start searching for someone to buy out my loans and save me from the hell Sallie Mae has put me through. Everything about this company is a corrupt from the ground up, and do not trust Navient, either. They are run by the same people and same principles of Sallie Mae (this stated from the ACS, StudentLoans.Gov, and NSLDS representatives I talked to on the phone, post that Sallie Mae phone call). To any/all potential Sallie Mae repliers, DON'T BOTHER MESSAGING ME. You will not get a response from me anymore, no matter what you say. I am completely done dealing with you/interacting with you. May this PLEASE be the last experience I ever have to have with them again.
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Sallie Mae is one of the largest and most reputable student loan companies offering both undergraduate and graduate student loans. They have been in business for over 40 years and have helped more than 30 million students and their families save, plan and pay for college.
- Services: Private education loans for undergraduates, graduate students and children in private K-12 schools. Banking products include money market accounts, high yield savings accounts and CDs. The Upromise by Sallie Mae earns members cash back on everyday purchases.
- Smart Option Student Loan: This unique program offers an undergraduate school student loan solution with competitive interest rates, a choice of repayment options and rewards for on-time loan payments while in school. There are 3 repayment options and variable or fixed interest rate loans.
- Three repayment options: Sallie Mae offers 3 different repayment options: a Deferred Repayment Option where the student makes no payments during school or pays as much as he or she prefers, a Fixed Repayment Option or an Interest Repayment Option where students make interest payments while in school so it doesn't accrue over time.
- Payment rewards: The interest repayment option rewards the borrower for paying interest while in school. This benefit may save over 20 percent on total loan costs when compared with the deferred repayment option. On-time payments earn a 2 percent benefit paid into the student's Upromise account.
- Loan education and information: The Sallie Mae portal has useful budgeting, money management and loan resources to help student and their families with their finances.
- Best for Students who don't qualify for scholarships, families of students needing help with private school K through 12 tuition payments, undergraduates and graduate students.
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Sallie Mae Company Profile
- Company Name:
- Sallie Mae
- Year Founded:
- 1972
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- Newark
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- Website:
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TIFFIN— It's anchors aweigh for Tiffin Elementary, the newest building in the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) School District. The approximately $14 million structure was constructed as part of a $48 million bond issue voters approved in February of last year. Other projects included in the bond were an addition to the middle school, which is still under construction, and a high school addition slated for construction in the spring. A groundbreaking ceremony was held three months after the bond was approved, and site work commenced almost immediately at the corner of Highway 6 and Jasper Avenue.
Solon joins other cities in proclaiming October Domestic Violence Awareness Month
SOLON– Along with cities and counties across the country, the Solon City Council declared October Domestic Violence Awareness Month at its Oct. 7 meeting.
SOLON— There are many traditions in the fire service, including the Maltese Cross, the time-honored symbol of firefighters. The Maltese Cross is considered a badge of honor and a symbol of protection displayed by American firefighters.
In Solon, it's also a sign of gratitude and appreciation.
Bill Frees, owner of Newport Fab and Machine, Inc., recently fabricated and donated a Maltese Cross emblem to the Solon Fire Department.
SOLON– Solon Trapshooting Team will be collecting cans on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 8-11 a.m., at the Solon Fire Station to raise funds for the program. For questions regarding the can drive, contact Kris McAtee at 319-325-3438.
SOLON– Our Lord's Church will hold its 11th annual Fall Festival Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the church, located at 131 N. Market St.
The soup luncheon will feature homemade chili, chicken noodle and chicken tortilla soup, along with hot dogs, chili dogs and drinks. The bake sale will include fresh farm eggs, bread from the Sykora Bakery and other member specialties.
The church will again be selling Dutch Letters, a pastry from Pella, crafts and other items.
SOLON– The Solon Knights of Columbus (KCs) will host an all-you-can-eat breakfast Sunday, Oct. 18, from 8 a.m. until noon at St. Mary Catholic Church parish hall. The cost is $6 for ages 12 and older, $3 for ages 6 through 11, and free for ages 5 and younger.
The KCs will be serving eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage and pancakes.
SOLON– An informational meeting will be held for those interested in joining Venture Crew. Anyone between the ages of 14 to 21 interested in High Adventures should plan to attend a meeting at St. Mary Church in Solon on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7:45 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The meeting is open to all denominations and both genders.
Adults interested in helping with forming the group should attend as well. Those interested in attending who have questions may contact Tim Broghammer at 319-624-2700.
HILLS– President Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
For four years, Roger Stutsman and Kelley Donham have been trying to convince farmers they are not from the government, and they truly are there to help.
CEDAR RAPIDS– The Eastern Iowa Orchid Society in cooperation with the Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce The Fourth Annual Eastern Iowa Orchid Show and Sale on Oct. 17-18, at the Noelridge Park Greenhouse located at 4900 Council Street NE. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4p.m. The show is free and open to the public
NORTH LIBERTY — Everyone knows they serve and protect; but on Saturday, Oct. 24, North Liberty residents will find out if their sworn police officers got game, too.
The North Liberty Police Department (NLPD) will host its first "Hoops with a Cop" event at the North Liberty Recreation Center from 9 a.m. to noon, with the officers taking to the basketball court to meet the public and have a little fun.
NORTH LIBERTY– Tails were wagging and wet fur was flying at the North Liberty Aquatic Center, Sept. 10 and 11, during the city's fourth annual Doggie Plunge event.
Each year as the city closes its outdoor pool to human customers, Aquatics Director Katie Gerot and her staff get ready to entertain four-legged friends who also enjoy getting wet. In order to be pet-friendly, the water must be properly prepared by cutting off chemical treatments and dropping the water level below the system's filters.
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my kids are younger, 10 and 8. it is very easy to get an explicit version of a song when downloading form itunes. i have made it a point to have this discussion with both kids no explicit songs and i will know if it is downloaded. i don't allow file sharing and each kid has their own itunes account only tied to gift cards. both still have to wish list what they want and then i approve or disapprove and buy from their account. it is a shame more parents don't educate themselves and their kids about issues such as these. i guess if we claim we don't know then we don't have to be responsible. nice post.
Do You Know What's Playing on Your Child's iPod?
My kids are going around the house all day singing the song "I Got That Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas. Is there anything wrong with that?
I'd heard parts of this song on the radio and when I saw this question, it started playing on repeat in my head. It's such a catchy tune that it was near impossible to get out of my mind. The chorus keeps repeating itself, " I got that Boom Boom Pow… I got that natural style". I went to bed and kept waking up on the hour at 2, 3 and 4 am with that song playing in my head and disturbing my dreams, "I got that Boom Boom Pow… I got that natural style." When I dragged myself out of bed in the morning it was still playing between my ears as I brushed my teeth and got ready for work, "I Got That Boom Boom Pow… ."
When I looked it up online, it surprised me that there were two versions of the song. The "clean" version and the official version. I listened to both and trust me, you wouldn't want your 10 year old saying, much less singing, the original lyrics that contain a certain four letter word frequently! Since then, I've found that there are several versions of the song and video. Some of them are appropriate for younger children and some are better suited to teenagers or adults. Who knew that there were so many choices? All this got me to thinking, are parents listening to what's on their child's iPod? It's probably time to give a listen and check in on what type and quality of music they are listening to. Without a doubt your teenagers may find the original version cooler than the cleaned up version. Which one do you want them listening to? Music has a subtle way of influencing who we are and how we see ourselves, this is especially true for tweens and teens. Elementary age children want to be that teenager. So please tune in and find out What that Boom Boom Pow is all about.
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I agree with you. As parents, we've got to pay attention to the things our kids are not only listening to but what they are watching on tv, what they are doing on computers, and the list goes on. And I know some parents worry about their kids thinking they don't trust them, but my mom used to say there was no doubt that she trust her children, she simply didn't trust everyone else.
As a teacher of children aged 5 to 11 and a parent of three boys aged 8 to 13, I have to agree with you. The lyrics may be 'cool' if you are 19 (or 9 and want to be 22) but they aren't cool if you're 5 and singing them aloud in the playground or street. Along with "rights" come 'responsibilities'. If the song writer takes no 'responsibilty' then they have no 'rights'. Same goes for all of us. (Me too, me first).
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New Delhi, Jan 8: Minister for Science & Technology, Prithviraj Chavan has said that Government plans to increase its expenditure on R&D from 1 percent of GDP to 2 percent.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Oct 3, 1978
|Filing date
|Jul 6, 1977
|Priority date
|Jul 6, 1977
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Richard Newman Berglund, John Paul Pasternak
|Original Assignee
|Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (25), Classifications (8)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to improved devices for making electrical cross-connections between two sets of conductors and, in particular, to improved devices which increase the amount of electrical isolation between adjacent conductors in the cross-connected sets of conductors.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Wire connecting blocks of the type disclosed in B. C. Ellis, Jr. U.S. Pat. No. 3,611,264, issued Oct. 5, 1971, include an indexing strip and a connecting block, the latter of which carries a plurality of slotted beam contacts. The indexing strip has a plurality of uniform height, spaced-apart teeth along its length. These teeth aid in indexing a first set of conductors. A corresponding plurality of uniform height, spaced-apart teeth carried by the connecting block serve to index a second set of conductors to be cross-connected through the slotted beam contacts to the first set of conductors.
A number of improvements to the basic Ellis, Jr. connecting block are disclosed in B. C. Ellis, Jr. et al U.S. Pat. No. 3,798,587, issued Mar. 19, 1974. In the improved version the spaced-apart teeth in both the indexing strip and the connecting block are staggered in height to facilitate indexing each set of conductors. The Ellis, Jr. et al connecting block is a two-piece structure the parts of which are secured together following insertion of the slotted beam contacts. While this connecting block arrangement has proved to be satisfactory in some applications, we have found that when the connecting block is placed over the indexing strip in cold temperatures certain stresses are applied to the bond between the two connector parts. These stresses often rupture the bond causing failure of the entire unit.
In other applications, such as outdoor environments, moisture collects across the exposed conductor ends. This moisture oftentimes results in short circuits between some of the conductors. In an attempt to alleviate this problem, an insulative, greaselike compound is placed in the connector cavity. While this greaselike compound aids in the reduction of electrical short circuits, unfortunately it further increases the mechanical stresses applied to the joint between the two connector parts as the connector is brought into engagement with the indexing strip. The present application is directed to further improvements in the connecting block structures disclosed in the aforementioned patents.
It is one object of the present invention to alleviate the mechanical stresses produced during engagement of the connecting block with the indexing strip.
Another object is to encase the exposed ends of the conductors thereby electrically insulating them from one another.
A further object of the present invention is to improve the locking arrangement between the connector body and the indexing strip.
Yet another object is to improve the indexing strip in order to facilitate engagement of the connecting block therewith.
Still a further object is to provide a conductor holding arrangement in the indexing strip to hold indexed conductors in place prior to engagement with the connecting block.
An even further object of the present invention is to increase the electrical isolation among a second set of conductors when brought into engagement with the connecting block and ultimately the first set of conductors.
Still a further object is to configure the connecting block such that it is readily engageable with a test cord.
The foregoing objects as well as other objects of the invention are realized in an illustrative embodiment of apparatus for electrically interconnecting first conductors with associated second conductors. This interconnection apparatus includes first and second mating connectors which are made of electrically insulative material. The first connector has provision therein for individually receiving and indexing the first conductors. Ends of these first conductors are exposed along one side of the first connector. The second connector carries a plurality of slotted beam contacts which are held in a predetermined spatial relationship so as to be engageable with the first and second sets of conductors, respectively. A skirt portion integral with the second connector encases the exposed ends of the first conductors to electrically isolate them from one another.
Accordingly, it is one feature of the present invention that the second connector is configured so as to alleviate mechanical stresses heretofore applied to a bond joint.
Another feature is that the second connector includes provision for facilitating alignment of the slotted beam contacts therein.
Still another feature of the present invention is that the second connector has integral therewith a skirt which encases exposed conductor ends of the first set of conductors.
A further feature is that an end of the second connector opposite the end having the skirt provides increased electrical isolation among the conductors of the second set of conductors.
Yet another feature is that the first connector includes funnel-shaped entry ways on spaced-apart indexing teeth to facilitate alignment of the first and second connectors during mating.
An even further feature of the present invention is that the first connector includes an anvil to facilitate wire cutoff.
Yet a further feature is that the spaced-apart teeth of the first connector have opposed depressions in adjacent sidewalls to facilitate capture of the first set of conductors as they are indexed.
Still a further feature of the present invention is that the locking arrangement between the first and second connectors is improved through the provision of truncated cylindrical projections along sidewalls of the spaced-apart teeth on the first connector. These truncated cylindrical projections have a thickness at their bottom which is greater than the thickness at the top and this variation in thickness ensures a tight retention with a plurality of apertures in sidewalls of the second connector.
Still a further feature is that the bottom sidewalls of the second connector are scalloped to decrease interference with larger outside diameter wires.
Still another feature of the present invention is that alternate spaced-apart teeth of the second connector have barbed tips thereon to assist in holding a test cord in connection therewith.
The aforementioned objects and features, as well as other objects and features, will be better understood upon consideration of the following detailed description and the appended claims, taken in conjunction with the attached drawings in an illustrative embodiment in which:
FIG. 1 is a side view of a first connector illustrating the improved wire capture arrangement;
FIG. 2 is an end view of the first connector illustrating the truncated cylindrical projections for improved connector locking, the funnel-shaped entry way for facilitating alignment of the second connector with the first connector, and the wire cutoff anvil;
FIG. 3 is a top view of the first connector illustrating tapered slots used in effecting wire indexing;
FIG. 4 is an exploded partial perspective view of the second connector illustrating the improved arrangement for mounting the slotted beam contacts therein;
FIG. 5 is a partial perspective view of a comblike slotted beam contact retainer, the comblike members of which absorb shear stresses produced during engagement of the second connector with the first connector;
FIG. 6 is a side view of the second connector illustrating the scalloped edges for decreasing interference with larger outside diameter wires;
FIG. 7 is an end view of the second connector illustrating the extended skirt used to improve the electrical isolation among the first set of conductors and the barbed ends used to assist the holding of a test cord in place on the second connector;
FIG. 8 is a top view of the second connector illustrating the mechanism for improving the electrical isolation among the second set of conductors; and
FIG. 9 is a composite end view of the first and second connectors aligned for mating connection with one another and further illustrating encasement of the exposed wire ends of the first set of conductors.
A first mating connector, hereinafter denoted as indexing strip 11 and shown in FIGS. 1 through 3, includes a longitudinally extending body member 12. Integral with body member 12 and extending generally perpendicular to an axis thereof are a plurality of spaced-apart teeth 13. Teeth 13 alternate in height to facilitate indexing of a first set of conductors 14 shown in FIG. 9. To further facilitate wire indexing, teeth 13, as shown in FIG. 1, have tapered tip regions 15 on adjacent sidewalls 16. These tapered tip regions 15 form generally funnel-shaped wire entry ways for directing conductors 14 into wire retaining slots 17 formed by spaced-apart teeth 13.
Adjacent sidewalls 16 of spaced-apart teeth 13 have integral therewith a pair of opposed depressions 18 for capturing and holding an indexed conductor 14 in a wire retaining slot 17. Opposed depressions 18 are located at an intermediate point along the height of teeth 13 above wire retaining slot 17.
Extending along a length of body member 12 are outwardly projecting edges 20 and 21, as shown in FIG. 2. Edges 20 and 21 are at different elevations along body member 12 with edge 20 being at a lower elevation than edge 21 when viewed from tapered tip regions 15 of spaced-apart teeth 13. This difference in elevation of edges 20 and 21 enables a polarized engagement of indexing strip 11 with a second mating connector 40, as shown in FIG. 9. Edge 21 has a width nearly twice the width of edge 20. This difference in width facilitates cutoff of first conductors 14 by a tool (not shown).
Also shown in FIG. 2 is a generally funnel-shaped channel 22 which is integral with sidewall 16 of spaced-apart teeth 13. A similar channel 22 is integral with an opposed sidewall 16 of teeth 13. These funnel-shaped channels 22 have widths of greater extent at tip regions 15 of teeth 13 to facilitate directing slotted beam contacts 30, carried by second mating connector 40 and shown in FIG. 4, into engagement with indexed conductors 14, as shown in FIG. 9.
Indexing strip 11 is affixed to a support carrier (not shown), similar to that illustrated as element 36 in FIG. 2 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,798,587, issued to B. C. Ellis, Jr. et al on Mar. 19, 1974, by cylindrical posts 23. Posts 23 are inserted into apertures in the support carrier and heated to produce an expanded head similar to that of a rivet.
In order to securely couple indexing strip 11 to second mating connector 40, a plurality of truncated cylindrical projections 24 are integrally provided on outer walls of spaced-apart teeth 13. Projections 24, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, have a greater thickness near an edge opposite tip regions 15 of spaced-apart teeth 13. This coupling arrangement will be considered in further detail following the description of second mating connector 40.
Once conductors 14 are indexed, cross-connections among these conductors and conductors 39 of a second set, as shown in FIG. 9, are effected through a plurality of slotted beam contacts 30, shown in FIG. 4. Each of contacts 30 includes a central portion 31 which has first and second pairs of oppositely directed cantilever beams 32 and 33 extending therefrom. Each of the beams in the pairs of beams 32 and 33 are spaced apart from one another by elongated generally rectangular apertures 34 and 35, respectively. Apertures 34 and 35 extend from central portion 31 to a point near a pair of oppositely directed insulation-penetrating edges 36 and 37, respectively, at the ends of beams 32 and 33. It should be noted that beams 33 are of shorter length than beams 32 to increase the force provided by edges 37 during engagement with conductor insulation. Also included in central portion 31 is a generally oval-shaped aperture 25 used in mounting contact 30 in mating connector 40.
The second mating connector 40, shown in FIG. 4, is comprised of a body member 41 which has a plurality of elongated generally rectangular cavities 42 therein for slidably engaging slotted beam contacts 30. Extending partially along planar inner sidewalls 43 of cavities 42 are channel cavities 44. A corresponding plurality of spaced-apart apertures 45 are included in an outer sidewall 46 of body member 41. Spaced-apart apertures 45 are aligned in one-to-one correspondence with rectangular cavities 42 and channel cavities 44.
Once slotted beam contacts 30 are inserted into rectangular cavities 42 and aligned such that aperture 25 is beneath a corresponding aperture 26, shown in FIG. 6, anchoring member 50 is brought into engagement with body member 41. Anchoring member 50, shown in FIG. 5 is comprised of a generally flat rectangular member 51. Integral with member 51 and extending outwardly therefrom are a plurality of spaced-apart generally triangular projections 52. Extending from tops of triangular projections 52 are projections 53 and 54. Interposed between projections 53 and 54 is a notch 55 the width of which is approximately equal to a width of central portion 31 between apertures 25 and 34 of contact 30.
Triangular projections 52, in conjunction with projections 53 and 54 and the depth of notch 55, limit the extent of engagement of slotted beam contact 30 with rectangular member 51. It should be noted that projection 53 extends into channel cavities 44. This mounting arrangement for slotted beam contacts 30 couples insertion forces produced during engagement of second mating connector 40 with indexing strip 11 into projections 53 and 54. Consequently, the insertion forces tend toward the shearing of projections 53 and 54 rather than the splitting of body member 41.
To ensure proper alignment of anchoring member 50 with body member 41, the former includes a projecting lip 56 along a lengthwise edge 57. Outer sidewall 46 has a mating groove 48 extending along its length. This lip and groove arrangement provides a polarized mating of anchoring member 50 with body member 41. Once in place these two members are secured to one another, for example, by ultrasonic welding.
As shown most clearly in FIGS. 7 and 9, body member 41 has integral therewith and extending outwardly away therefrom a generally L-shaped skirt 61. A plurality of scallops 62, as shown in FIG. 4, along the base leg of the "L" and along opposite edge 63, engage conductors 14, as shown in FIG. 9, and hold them in place between indexing strip 11 and mating connector 40. Skirt 61 encases exposed ends 19 of first conductors 41 to electrically isolate them from one another. Not only does the insulative material of which both indexing strip 11 and mating connector 40 are made provide electrical isolation, but skirt 61 in conjunction with sealing compound (not shown) shields exposed ends 19 to prevent any accumulation of moisture which could cause electrical short circuits.
After first conductors 14 are individually received and indexed in indexing strip 11 and conductor ends 19 are trimmed to the proper length, mating connector 40 with the plurality of slotted beam contacts 30 therein is brought into engagement with indexing strip 11. Mating connector 40 is coupled securely to indexing strip 11 by projections 24 which engage a corresponding plurality of circular apertures 49 in sidewall 46 and skirt 61. Circular apertures 49 are aligned in correspondence with truncated cylindrical projections 24 so that apertures 49 surround projections 24 with the greater thickness inhibiting separation of mating connector 40 from indexing strip 11 once the two are mated.
It should be noted that mating connector 40 holds the slotted beam contacts 30 in a spatial relationship so that an individual contact 30 is engageable with an individual conductor 14. Opposite ends of contacts 30 are now available for engagement with second conductors 39, as shown in FIG. 9.
To facilitate alignment and indexing of second conductors 39, mating connector 40, as shown in FIGS. 6 through 8, has a plurality of spaced-apart, alternating height teeth 65 integral with body member 41. Teeth 65 have a configuration somewhat similar to that of teeth 13 on indexing strip 11 insofar as teeth 65 have tapered tip regions 66 forming funnel-shaped wire entry ways 67. Near the bottom of wire retaining slots 68 formed by adjacent sidewalls 69 of teeth 65 there are oppositely directed interference projections 71. Projections 71 have a thickness of greater extent at a central point therein which is removed from taper tip regions 66. Projections 71 facilitate capture and inhibit conductors 39 from separating from mating connector 40 after being seated in contacts 30.
Electrical isolation is provided among exposed ends of conductors 39 by extended lateral projections 72 on teeth 65 as shown in FIG. 8. These extended projections 72 increase the electrical path length between adjacent exposed conductor ends. On outer edges of alternate ones of projections 72 are projecting lips 73 for facilitating engagement of a test cord (not shown) with mating connector 40.
In all cases, it is to be understood that the above-described embodiment is illustrative of but a small number of many possible specific embodiments which can represent applications of the principles of the invention. Thus, numerous and various other embodiments can be devised readily in accordance with these principles by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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