With the lesson of Guy Mallabone on large donors ended the theoretical pate of the Master in Fundraising now all students are engaged in their internship, someone already working and already has a contract, someone has returned to his working life ... we'll see how will. On December 1, ended the call for the new Master in 2010, 10 and December 11 selections. But that's not what I wanted to speak, is the gift that I arrived at the end of the course by students. I gave a "donation", a real donation to a cause that more 'I like 150 euros! Not bad! I was very impressed and I would like to thank them one by one:

Alfonso Maria Brunetti Sonia Cefis Tania, Maria Luisa Colazani, Corbo, Francesca, Dabbagh Jenda Cecilia Di Girolamo Givanni, Evangelists Alessandra Feregrino NILU, Ghinone Albert, Lofino Vincenza, Renato Meo, Ragusa, Rosalie, Robert Nicla, Rochira Carla, Giorgia Science , Irene Severini, Marco Spanu, Alessandro Vannucchi, Martina Vendramin, near Verona, Vigiani Charles Stephen, Federica Zanetti, Loredana match.

I have also sent a note that I prefer to keep for me, but that ends with the sentence ...

.... We have made the bank transfer to the Cooperative Tonino bristle non-profit organization.
It should have arrived today, in case there are problems, the No CRO is 11382196510 ref. 99169/5793
Greetings from all the "almost burnt" 2009.

I sent a letter to each of them. Here it is:

Dear Students, Colleagues, indeed, almost,

Thank you for your gift, really nice. And thanks for the wonderful years spent together.

I am in Canada at the AFP conference (Association of Fundraising Professionals). Despite the situation of donations in some Canadian provinces is disturbing (10% in Quebec, - 7% in Ontario, etc.), this conference is the most 'numerous ever held in Canada (1060 participants).
So the situation is ambiguous. On the one hand a growing and renewed interest in this extraordinary profession (certainly the most beautiful, because the one that most directly to do with destiny and with the desire of every individual human being), the other live moments of great concern.
Just yesterday, ISTAT said that he had never touched the roof of the 2 million unemployed in Italy, with peak rates
high among women, and in southern Italy.

You are preparing to face the world of work, in a period that is not among the happiest. Remember why you have said in the beginning of the course: "finish the Master's course in the period in which is supposed to be starting the end of the crisis ...." The predictions seem right ... At this point my only advice at this precise moment in time and be "flexible", even more than what you have been up to now ... If this really is your dream, enter the
fundraising, we must be ready to accept situations, even the strangest possible to remain in the field.

I graduated in '91, in very difficult times, when the concept of precariousness was minimal, and all eventually aspired, with good reason, to work "safely". I was hired for an indefinite period to Confcommercio of Bologna, with a contract for the first level, and after two years, I quit because I wanted to follow my dream.
I still remember how my hand shook, his eyes dark with my head very good (and with whom I'd sure career ... became the Mayor of Bologna) and shook his head disappointed, as I signed my letter of resignation. I left for the United States, with a mini scholarship ... I stayed there 3 years. My beloved father a few years after my return I said, "If I knew that life would you have done in the United States, I would never let go." Up to 2001 (the year I won the contest at University), I spent almost eight years (3 in New York) between minilavoretti, dog sitter, baby
Child, Italian lessons for foreigners, scholarships, bankruptcies, small jobs here and there, contrattini, consulenzine
varied setbacks, devise, contract assignments and occasional ... in the meantime I have not referred the birth of
My family (in 2001 I was married with a son, and expecting another).

I'm not a hero, (there's no need to say it!), And I'm not perfect ... (and has no doubts about this ... even my wife) but that have never been quiet and I have always pursued what I believe I have no doubt. And 'our ongoing small change that will change the world. Not the social revolution, right or left, and even fundraising. Just us and our small but great work, we change.

I hope you will not ever be quiet.

Best wishes,
VM