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Involvement gets ownership and ownership gets investment!

Involvement gets ownership and ownership gets investment!

Organizational Involvement

If you can connect someone and get organizational involvement, there is a strong likelihood that they will support you financially.  There are so many great examples from academia, human services, church, etc.

An organization we work with formed a relationship with their past board chair by him showing up to paint one afternoon.   Bill was a pilot for American Airlines and was having coffee with some friends one day.  He was asked if he would have time to come to the shelter and help paint a room.  That’s all it took for his heart to be touched by the people he saw coming through the doors.  In a 20-year span of Bill’s organizational involvement, he donated  over $250,000 in the same period of time.  He also left a gift for this charity in his will.

We often spend a disproportionate amount of time on “making the ask” but more emphasis should be made on building relationships to have the right person to ask.

What can you do to get more organizational involvement from people, even in the simplest ways?

The most important hour is always the present.  The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.  The most necessary work is always love.

-Meister Eckhart-

 

Written by:  Paul D’Alessandro

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