# … and over here

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/01/23/and-over-here/
- Published: 2000-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

“Raising money… is virtually a US monopoly”
“Raising money… is virtually a US monopoly”,
says Richard Reeves in The Observer today, claiming that Americans are better suited
to fundraising, among other jobs, “simply because the US is further ahead.”

This claim is somewhat controversial, but he is right that “money-getters from across
the pond are in huge demand.” He quotes Alice Gosling, an American-born fundraiser
at Lincoln College, Oxford: “in the US, colleges have been aggressively fundraising
for 25 years. Here, development is fairly new in lots of areas – higher education,
museums, the ballet. The industry is simply more developed in the US.”

Read Your country needs US by Richard Reeves at The Observer.

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