Interview 1738 – Caption Index: 373
Was it tough to secure private money?… Read More
Was it tough to secure private money?… Read More
Yes, it’s tough to pick up because we don’t have a lot of potential, oh, you mean private money?… Read More
You know what?… Read More
Even though she may have been romanced and massaged by the board and the staff, at some point, the director’s gotta show up and say, we really are interested in you being part of this project. So yes, it is important. We gotta do it. Read More
Were you able to ever use the political process to raise money?… Read More
Do you think it’s become more of a necessity for zoo directors?… Read More
Yes, yes, unfortunately. Read More
Even though your board people are the ones asking or you may even have a staff person or a department that structures all of this, at some point, the director should be involved, because you are the director because of the status of your position, you don’t want to use,… Read More
Mrs. Gotrocks, or whoever. Read More
I don’t know how much they’re worth, but I know a lot of these people, but I felt uncomfortable looking at them and evaluating how much can we ask for them?… Read More
But the way it worked was the foundation, the foundation board members, and they were good at this, they would ask for the money, I went along as a zoo director to have the fancy plan, to here’s Lions Pride. Here’s how it’s gonna be unique or whatever. So I… Read More
She said, “Well, sir, you’ve seen the presentation it’s a great project. We’d like to ask you for $500,000. (Gary chuckling) I laughed out of my chair. I almost felt like saying, I didn’t know she was gonna ask for that much. But this guy had been hit up so… Read More
But it got to the point where that was not the most fun. I spent a lot of time in these preparations and in these presentations, that’s not really what I like to do, but it’s important these days. Read More
How did you adjust to fundraising?… Read More
I liked the excitement of a fundraising project. Like the tiger thing, which was, or the branch, something that’s got a fun dimension to it. But the cold hard the structured way of doing it, get the client list, get the potential, get the list of all the potential people… Read More
How much could they give?… Read More
At what level can they give? Blah, blah, blah. I don’t know. I get a little uncomfortable at the harshness or the impersonal approach of looking at, I mean, I know a lot these people. Read More
First project, Lions Pride. And got, fortunately, the key people, key leaders in the community responded and formed a board, raised the money. It did tee off a few people in Friends of the Zoo. I was sorry about that. And they may have felt a little threatened, but the… Read More
Is that organization still functioning today?… Read More
No, when I left, it carried on for a few years, but my immediate successor came in and did not work well with the board. And the board got a little disillusioned with the zoo at the time. So the board kind of, they didn’t disband. They just said, well,… Read More