The search begins.
After thirty-plus years of television, where I worked my way up from a secretary in the CBS Newsroom to being an Executive in Charge of Problems, I’m ready to take on my first interviews again. This time in a new field. Development/fundraising/corporate cheerleading. I’m not sure what, exactly, I’ll find that will be a match but I know something is out there. I wrote this paragraph as my “Mission Statement” today and I’ll put it on Linked-In, but I wanted you to see it first:
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I put the ping in ‘typing’. My typed “Thank You” letters — on an Olympia Compact II — are my own brand of etiquette, and if you get a letter from me, know you are loved. Letters are my tool for power reach-out and relationship-building. I have a 90% success rate in reaching and retaining folks with my correspondence.
I admire big thinkers — ‘change agents’ who think outside of the box. I appreciate artists and geniuses who haven’t been properly seen or understood. As the parent of a child who struggled with learning issues, and as someone who has my own varied interests, I care about creative people. I want to bring the “A” for “Art” into our Science-Technology-Engineering-Math world.
Then I write about fundraising … and other things. My last line is:
I relate to professors and parents, Hollywood producers and teenage tweeters. I’m a cheerleader who can blend in, a diplomat who can be honest, and an enthusiastic presence where ever I travel.
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