My love for philanthropy as a black fundraiser
Fatou Jammeh, 2021
I can still remember the first time I held a cheque for one million dollars in my hand.
As a young fundraiser making less than five percent of this cheque a year, I couldn’t begin to imagine what. this amount of wealth meant. Yet here I was, holding a piece of paper as light as a feather with enormous power to change lives, even the lives of those of us in the headquarters. Thinking back now about how this gift was secured through a simple coffee conversation is alluring for me. I too wanted to talk to wealth, see what this sector of philanthropy was about and how it could effect change.
Pursuing philanthropy has been an interesting journey. For ...
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