This person would not be engaged in "fund raising" in the conventional
sense.  He/she would be developing revenue generating programs--lectures,
festival, travel-study programs, etc. for which we will charge fees.  We
should be doing these things anyway but don't have the staff to do so.  Our
thinking is that we could do them with a staff person as long as we
generate enough money to cover the staff person.  Over time, we would want
that to result in revenues in excess of the staff-person's salary.

I'm not sure I got your last point, though.


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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
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Angleton, Texas  77515
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From:   Dill, Christopher L.[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, October 02, 1998 5:06 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Generating Own Salary

     Seems to me that a return of 33% on fund raising is
     low.  If I were a donor and was told that 66% of my
     donation was going to go to pay for the fund raising,
     I'd think the operation was poorly managed.  Raising
     150% of his/her salary only "profits" 33-50% (depending
     on how one views it), and seems low to me.

     Chris Dill

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