Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 566
Somebody’s gotta make the decision, but you need good leadership for that, somebody who has vision and somebody has got be really committed to follow. Read More
Somebody’s gotta make the decision, but you need good leadership for that, somebody who has vision and somebody has got be really committed to follow. Read More
Tell me about it. The Zoo Society, one of the problems with it, we had a committee and a committee that designs a horse ends up with a camel, as you know it. Some of the people liked me, some of them didn’t like me. And there was a battle… Read More
And did it change over the years?… Read More
What was your relationship with the Zoo Society?… Read More
Well, you gotta do something that people want to do. If you want to have wine tasting or you want to have mullet fries or you want to get a committee together and have them approach people with money to raise money. But ours zoo was not an non-profit, so… Read More
I’m a young zoo director, I come to you Pat and I say, “Can you give me some hints for good fundraising?” What do you tell me?… Read More
A house boy for Isaac Dennis. We have one of his original paintings in crayon. Which has probably got quite a bit of value now because a lot of his stuff was destroyed by fire and whatever remains is here in the United States now. Read More
Remember Kamante the kitchen boy with a bad leg?… Read More
That wasn’t Daphne, that was Sally Church. Sally Church gave it to us, but it was from Daphne Sheldrick. And it was a thank you because of something we did, we sold her t-shirts in our gift shop. And the money went to her, whatever it was that Daphne was… Read More
I don’t know numbers, I have no idea. 10 guns over there. They wanted shotguns because they were working in thick bush with these anti-poachers, which is better than just a rifle, one slug. So we did that. I helped raise money to buy a helicopter for Ted Ghost in… Read More
And I got 10 guns?… Read More
Now, you have done a lot of fundraising for other organizations. Can you just give me a little bit about Rhino Ark in Kenya or World Wildlife Fund or Zambia with the guns or Tsavo. You’ve done a lot of other fundraising for these organizations. No, I didn’t know all… Read More
Well, we had partners. Each one of us, the four or five of us had money in the zoo and we kept growing money from that. Or we borrowed money to build a train or carousel or whatever. Our investors, if we had a bad year, we would put in… Read More
What was your operation?… Read More
Were you trying to go to people to give you additional money?… Read More
Was it just through the gate?… Read More
How did you find the funding for the zoo?… Read More
Tell me a little thing about fundraising. You had this initial investment, but now you had to get funds because you were talking about the difficulty. Read More
So at that time. So people came to the zoo in the community, they paid their money, was a positive year?… Read More
Big draw. Biggest draw in the history of the zoo at that time. Read More