by Darren Macfee | Jul 1, 2014 | Fund Development
This is a continuation of a previous post. Be sure to read part one of No? What do you mean no? When we left off last time, I was telling about being stunned by rejection. The campaign chair and I had just asked a long-time friend of the organization to invest in our...
by Darren Macfee | Jun 27, 2014 | Staff Care
Want to hear about the time I trained a cow to lay eggs? Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Come on! You really thought I was going to give you an instruction manual on bovine transformation? Even six-year-olds know to be skeptical of such a statement. I did grow up on a...
by Darren Macfee | Jun 23, 2014 | Fund Development
“No. I can’t do that.” The words stung. I was sure we would get this gift. After all, Mr. Prospect had served as board chair a decade earlier, during a critical point in the life of our organization. He had given a nice gift to the last capital campaign. In addition,...