I TEAR UP EVERY TIME I hear Michael J. Fox talk on the radio. Maybe owing to people close to me who suffered the same or similar condition as Michael’s. Maybe because those people demonstrated that same kind of courage and self effacement as this still relatively young man.
Michael J. Fox has a new book (A Funny [...]
Category Archives: Philanthropy
The perfect fund raiser
April 17, 2010 – 10:16 am
The toughest question
November 3, 2009 – 9:30 pm
HERE IS ONE OF THE MOST significant and most difficult questions of philanthropy.
Why?
Three letters and a bit of punctuation within which is captured an inquiry that could easily set us scrambling for information. In our rush we may articulate a reverse justification that begins at that thing we wish to fund. Or so often we [...]
Philanthropy and the National Parks
October 1, 2009 – 9:15 pm
ART, LITERATURE, science, politics, conservation, history, the depression, two world wars, human rights and nature itself. These unequal things are the characters in the story of this country’s national parks being told by a Ken Burns film this week. We in Montana are privileged to have four of these wondrous places within or in close [...]
Major gifts and the BIG idea
August 15, 2009 – 12:07 pm
WHAT DRIVES MAJOR GIFTS? The answer: ideas.
So often development work is reduced to this notion of ego. What the donor wants. The recognition the donor wants. The entertainment the donor wants. And probably this is not entirely wrong. But these are not things upon which one can build an entire major gift development effort. So [...]