A recent issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy addressed the shortage of major gift fundraisers in the nonprofit sector. The May 1998 issue of Black Enterprise magazine profiles Maviss Vann, a senior group manager and director for the United Way of New York. Ms. Vann oversees fundraising in the real estate and investment services sectors for the agency. Her prior position as assistant treasurer at Chase Manhattan Bank helped prepare her for working with bankers and other Wall Street types. I wasn't getting up every day and feeling excited about going to work.
Nonprofits are it.
4 Recent social trends and survey results indicate that young people would be attracted to the gainful employment opportunities in the nonprofit sector if they were aware of them. A growing number of undergraduates are spending spring vacations volunteering for human service agencies. The College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ had to scrounge for volunteers when an experimental spring break project was started in 1992. This year, organizers received 21 applications for nine places. Twenty years ago, four Boston College students drove 850 miles to rural Kentucky to work with the poor.