Fundraising Fundamentals
How to Turn Event Participants Into Long-Term Donors
Susan Paresky, chief of fundraising at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, explains how to figure out which participants in walkathons and other events are charitably inclined and have the resources to give and how to pursue them.
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