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Let's talk about the loneliness.

Let's talk about the loneliness.

Because fundraising can be lonely business.

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Brad Smith
Jan 06, 2022
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Fundraising is a lonely business. There, I said it.

I don’t know how often this topic is discussed, or why it's not discussed more often, but fundraising is lonely AF. The donors, volunteers, and the staff to keep happy, the data to maintain and manage, the ever-increasing goals, the proposals to write, the calls to make, the emails to respond to, the …

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