I Am Awesome. You Are Awesome.

The most recent occurrence was something I read in a newspaper from Australia. It seems a reporter attending the Fundraising Institute of Australia's national conference accused the fundraisers of "meeting behind closed doors" — at a conference. Any laughter or sarcasm in the session on legacies was reported to be at the donor's expense. Moves management of donor relationships was put in quotation marks — the implication being that we are manipulative and unethical, paying outrageous sums of money (conference fees) so we can secretly strategize how to rob old and dying people of their assets.