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“Being in your cubicle eight hours a day is a wonderful thing, but you have to get a life. If you send out 20 [direct-mail] packages a month, that’s a wonderful thing, but you have to get a life. Don’t hide behind the curtain of direct mail.”

— Derreck Kayongo, advocacy field coordinator, CARE, addressing the idea that fundraisers need to be donors, advocates and activists in their own lives as well, during his Jan. 24 keynote speech on “Why Our Work as Nonprofits Counts” at the DMA Nonprofit Federation’s 2008 Washington Nonprofit Conference in Washington, D.C.