Fundraising doesn’t work unless it combines inspiration with perspiration. Motivating yourself, day in and day out, means being reminded that what we do in the vineyards of the Third Sector really matters and that donors provide the equity and the venture capital that make miracles happen—in the hospital, in the classroom, in the research laboratory, on the stage, and amid some of the most desperate conditions of failed states around the world, where dire poverty, instability, and refugees and displaced people abound.
