Interview 9078 – Caption Index: 3
And your master’s degree was in?… Read More
And your master’s degree was in?… Read More
Bill Braker, I was born in Chicago in 1926, long time ago. Read More
What could zoos do to enhance their attendance regarding exhibits?… Read More
Any little tricks?… Read More
Well, I think keeping your name in front of the press and news agencies as we did for so long, every single Friday, they were sure to be getting a story from the zoo. And that can’t do any harm. Read More
Oh, yes. Read More
Where all of a sudden, can you give me one example?… Read More
I had surprise donations on safaris. I was on safari with the several people over the years and talking zoo business and talking what we saw that day on safari. And before the day was over, they’d hand me a check and say, here, put this in your pocket for… Read More
Was that million dollars one of the largest gifts that an individual had bestowed on San Antonio?… Read More
At that time, it was the largest. We had many people who gave over many years much more than that, but not at one time. Read More
Did you have any surprise donations?… Read More
No. I didn’t ever use the political process for anything. I tried to keep the zoo separate from politics as much as possible. Read More
Is there any one, aside from this 10 minutes, is there any one particular story where you walked in to get money, had to do something to ask and it became more and better than you thought it would be?… Read More
No, I can’t think of anything better than getting to the right people with a time limit on your head or getting to someone with a huge sum, like to me, a million dollars was a pretty darn big chunk of money and not coming from a granting agency or… Read More
I mean, do zoo directors coming into the profession now need to be different than 30 years ago because of fundraising, or?… Read More
I think it’s harder now because there are so many needs in the communities, not just the Zoo and sometimes it’s a children’s hospital or some humanitarian thing that really is important community wise. And for the zoo to go waltzing in there asking for money at the same time… Read More
Were you able to use the political process to raise money?… Read More
Well, I dove into it head first because I saw all these things that had to be done and I wanted to get right at it. That was my job. And it just seems to be, it came so naturally that it didn’t bother me a bit. And I had… Read More
So if you wanna go up there, we’ll go up.” And we did. And that 10 minutes, I worked my tail off in 10 minutes and we got what we were after with him. So it was very good that I had somebody to give me a little boost at… Read More
Well then how would you say that, or what’d you say that fundraising over the years now for a zoo director has changed?… Read More