Major Donors--Handle With Care

"If they feel like you only come to see [them] when you want more money, and you always want more money, that's a formula for disaster. It's a relationship, sort of like a friend. You see a friend a few times, (and) then maybe one time you ask if you can borrow their car. But if every single time you saw your friend all you wanted to ask was when can you borrow their car, pretty soon that person would begin to think, 'I don't see a friendship here,'" she adds.