An Open Letter to Fundraisers: Things I Wish You Wouldn’t Do

Dear Fundraiser, some things you do really bug me. As your colleague, I’m cheering for your success. So in a helpful spirit, I offer you my list below.

I wish you wouldn’t: send me an automated thank you message for an online gift and assume that’s enough, forget to thank me at all, send me a buck slip receipt and a generic postcard instead of a real letter …