March 20, 2008
What Potential Donors Want to Hear
When my son the college student told me that he had taken a part-time job, visions of drab jobs danced through my head.
Pizza delivery? Perhaps lawn maintenance? Sitting at the info desk in the library and looking bored?
Wrong again.
"Dad, I'm a fund raiser," he said.
Allie's task at Wesleyan University would be simple: Make cold calls to alumni and parents of current students and hold out the net.
He would sit in a boiler room two evenings a week, stoked
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