I am a fundraiser who has donor fatigue. Can I give this advice to the booster club at my child’s school:<\/p>\n
It is true that you need to ask if you want to get a donation. But it is also true that you can ask too many times. Seriously. And it is especially true that when you use my child’s creativity\/pride\/desire for plastic stuff to get donations for me my patience wears thin!!! STOP ASKING!!!!<\/p>\n
We have not yet reached Thanksgiving and I have been asked to support the following fundraising activities FOR THE SAME SCHOOL: art you can order on tchoches, book fair, cocktail party, school directory sponsors, gift wrap, and school carnival (and sponsorship). They even changed the annual Fun Run into a fundraiser–with plastic stuff as a prize for how many donations you get. That is 7 fundraisers in 3 months.<\/p>\n
I am starting to catch on to their insidious plan–I will pay them to leave me alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a fundraiser who has donor fatigue. Can I give this advice to the booster club at my child’s school: It is true that you need to ask if you want to get a donation. But it is also … Continue reading