5 Things to Never Do on Your Telefundraising Calls

How successful would a grant writer be in writing a proposal to a foundation that ended with, “Well, anything your foundation can spare this year, we’ll appreciate!” Or, thinking in a completely different vein, a young man asking a girl out for a date, shyly looking down as he shuffles his feet, “Uh, Shirley, maybe you’d like to go out with me sometime?” — as opposed to the more direct, “Shirley, there’s a new pizza shop on Market St. with the best pizza in town. How would you like to come with me next Tuesday?”