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. ------ Robert Handy Brazoria County Historical Museum 100 East Cedar Angleton, Texas 77515 (409) 864-1208 museum_bob [log in to unmask] http://www.bchm.org ---------- 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C. L. Dill, Museum Director State Historical Society of North Dakota 612 East Boulevard Bismarck ND 58505-0830 USA P: (701)328-2666 F: (701)328-3710 E: [log in to unmask] Visit our Web site at: http://www.state.nd.us/hist/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -