bomb1.jpgPrevious to my current role as blogger at Top School Fundraisers, I was working at a non-profit summer camp for boys. Like many summer camps it has a strong tradition and long history. In fact, I, myself, was a camper there for five years, before I became a staff member. In total, I was at the camp 24 years, from the time I was 10 years old until I was 34. I told people my mom just never came to pick me up.

So, in the summer of 2000, I was the associate director. One of my responsibilities was to raise money for the camp. There was a small, but respectable endowment, but like many places, money was tight and there were always more projects than funds.

One day, around mid-July, a young man walked into the camp office. He introduced himself as a former camper, a proud alumnus. I was not surprised, as many folks drop by the camp each week for this same purpose. Some were campers (or counselors) just a couple of summers previous, while some old timers remembered the early days of the camp in the 1930s. continue reading

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