Fundraising Connection: Fundraising Lessons From HONY
The "all this" that happened?
On Jan. 19, "Humans of New York" (HONY) photographer Brandon Stanton shot a picture of 13-year-old Vidal Chastanet, a student at Mott Hall Bridges Academy. Stanton asked the teen who the most influential person in his life was.
"My principal, Ms. Lopez," Vidal responded. "When we get in trouble, she doesn't suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each of us that we matter."
Pamela Grow is the publisher of The Grow Report, the author of Simple Development Systems and the founder of Simple Development Systems: The Membership Program and Basics & More fundraising fundamentals e-courses. She has been helping small nonprofits raise dramatically more money for over 15 years, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by Civil Society magazine, and one of the 40 Most Effective Fundraising Consultants by The Michael Chatman Giving Show.
