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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a school of fundraising that says you should always ask big and that people tend be flattered rather than put off if you ask them for an amount well outside their capacity (They think I'm rich, I must be doing something right!) As others have suggested, I would just say: "We love school x, but that just won't be possible for us. I would be happy to make a small donation of y."[/quote] I have kids in two well-regarded independent schools. When one invited us in and asked big I assumed they were either smoking crack or utterly incompetent. It made me lose faith in the school, their development office, and I didn't trust they were competent to handle my money. The other school was so much more competent, clearly had done their homework on what we could give, and we wound up giving them the exact amount they asked for. Having parents call is inherently problematic, mostly because many making the calls are clueless. [/quote]
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