Rising Stars

Ben brought with him intense people skills and immediately set out to meet as many players within the organization and the community it serves as possible. His enthusiasm and energy turned out to be highly contagious.

Cohn outlines Ben's many accomplishments, including doing away with expensive, time-consuming special events in favor of more one-on-one meetings with donors; producing the organization's first useful database; creating its first multichannel year-end campaign; orchestrating an $18,000 increase in a prior donor's contributions; and soliciting $15,000 from a new partner.