Q-and-A With Award Winners
What is the fundraising accomplishment you are most proud of? Meeting our fiscal year ’06 income goal in six months.
How would those close to you describe you? A happy person.
Chuck Longfield:
Where did you grow up? In a triple-decker in East Boston where my parents still live today!
What is your fundraising/consulting experience? My fundraising experience (where I ask people for money) is limited to a few capital campaigns for organizations I’m on the board of. However, for the past 30 years, I have had the privilege of working closely with many of the best fundraisers in the business, in my role as a software and analytics provider. I learned the basics of membership from Lo Hartnett at WGBH [Boston’s public broadcasting station] in 1979 but have had the opportunity to work with Jon Abbott and Roberta MacCarthy at WGBH, Ed Mills at U.S. Committee for UNICEF and later at WNET, Lee Weiner at the Anti-Defamation League, and the great teams of fundraisers at The Nature Conservancy, American Diabetes Association and so many other organizations.
