Fundraising: Art, Skill And Work

If you have attended school in the last 50 years, you are well acquainted with the word ?fundraiser?. It would seem in this age of corporate sponsorship, advertising, and community involvement, fundraising would not be the difficult process that it is. But this is not so. Fundraising is big business, and requires much skill on the part of the organizer. Occasionally, you are involved with a fundraising event, and everything seems to flow as if it were an everyday occurrence. Then, you have the more normal situation of Murphy?s Law: if it can go wrong, it will. The event that went off without a hitch, I can almost guarantee was a success. The one with problems, more than likely did not achieve the goal. There are a few simple rules to implement when participating in a View the rest of this article