With little to show but enthusiasm, the development staff at the National Constitution Center managed to fund a dream.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“As you can imagine, the National Constitution Center had no alums; it had nobody. It wasn’t as though you could just pick up a list of names and start making calls. I had to decide who was the audience, who would actually care about the Constitution,” she says, cryptically but characteristically refusing to talk about just who she decided that was.