March 26, 2009
University Strives to Retain Fund Raisers by Grooming Its Own
After years of frustration with the high cost of hiring fund raisers in a job market marred by a scarcity of qualified people and rapid turnover, the University of Michigan decided that enough was enough.
"We vice presidents would get together at conferences and wring our hands about the lack of talent," recalls Jerry May, the university's vice president for development. "I said we can either keep picking people off one another or grow our own."
Resolving to groom his own
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