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The Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund has
helped Transition Projects to change our fundraising culture - from staff-driven
to Board-led. This change has developed the leadership of the Board, and
given them the opportunity to share their enthusiasm for an agency that
has helped people move from homelessness to housing since 1969. As the vice
chair of our Board wrote recently: |
Our entire Board of Directors now tells the story of Transition Projects
- how our work moves people from homelessness to housing. As they tell
our story, and inspire others to join us, they ensure that Transition
Projects will continue to be here to serve Oregon's most vulnerable citizens... |
"When I tell people about Transition Projects, they respond, and they want
to know how they can help."
 We
made this transition to Board-led fundraising because we did not want to
put our mission at risk by relying too heavily on any single funder. We
believe that we are best able to do our work, and to meet our mission, by
gathering support from the whole community. Toward that end, our Board has
worked with the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund to expand our fundraising
efforts to individual donors. The result has been a steady addition of friends
and supporters to the agency, and a Board that is more deeply involved in
the work of our agency.
Our entire Board of Directors now tells the story of Transition Projects
- how our work moves people from homelessness to housing. As they tell our
story, and inspire others to join us, they ensure that Transition Projects
will continue to be here to serve Oregon's most vulnerable citizens, and
to affect the change necessary to end homelessness.
Tony
Bernal,
Development Director
Transition Projects
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