Agency or Organization? Tips From Someone Who Made the Move
That was enough for me. Nobody wants to be weird, so I channeled my animal obsession and carefully focused my energy on things I knew I could help. I began supervised volunteer trips to the local shelter and fostered animals while they were waiting for adoption. That experience shaped completely who I am, and when life brought me to New York City, I knew fate had given me the chance to make childhood dreams real and work for the ASPCA.
So, I'm a fundraiser having a mid-life crisis. Â And that's perfectly fine with me.Â
I am taking time to look around, lift my head and find REAL people who really want to change the world. Â And people smart enough to do it. Â Join me in this fun journey. I have no idea where we will end up - and that is the beauty of it. I'm nonprofit passionate, a hopeful world changer, and always ready to share what I know, learn what I don't, admit when I can't, and ask the hard questions.
While you're looking around for other areas of inspiration, check out The Moth Project at themoth.org (the podcasts are AMAZING), TED talks (doesn't matter which ones - find topics that interest you) and Volunteer Voices (again - love the podcast) written by volunteers from the Peace Corps. Don't see the immediate connection to being a better fundraiser? Â Just listen, you'll hear the message ...
