Real estate values are up. I think we re all enjoying and feeling lots of generosity. There s none of the peer pressure to give, one says. Companies are constantly being bought up, shut down or merged. Relationships are formed and then shattered.
Executives come and go.
We re always trying to track down the new executive vice president in town and find out what they are interested in, says Father Joe, who s forming a national charity corporation to better represent St. Vincent de Paul s growing interests. Approaching companies is a matter of strategy as well as style. Higher costs should be a red flag to donors, as well as administrators. Some fund-raisers also get too close to the prospective donors. It is considered unethical for a fund-raiser to show up in a will or to receive a significant gift from a benefactor.