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

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

With everything being so new, many members are still paying off their pledges, so the staff has to be careful about asking them for more gifts, Seiter explains.

And talk about counter-intuitive: Only a year after the NCC opened, development already is focusing more on renewals than acquisitions. Seiter won’t say no to a new donor, but she wants to make sure that the existing donors are getting all the TLC they want and need.