Thursday! Today's #gratitude goes to Kenneth Gonzales. We worked together here at National Jewish Health for four years until he retired a couple years ago. While he was here he was many things to me, including a mentor, teacher, advocate and friend. Ken was always willing to help and I learned a lot from him. #grateful #mentor #teacher #grateful
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I missed a few Thursdays so let's get back to it... Today's #gratitude goes to Andrea for sending me this today: "Thanks for... starting a group that was a foundation for my new career path so many years ago." She was replying to news that I'm relocating out of Colorado and is referring to the Colorado Raiser's Edge Users Group I started when I first moved to Denver 16 years ago. Some back story here to explain why I'm grateful for her and her words, so bear with me. I used to be a huge fan of Blackbaud, so much so that they gave me an "Outstanding Champion" award and even sent me a Superman cape (thanks Michael). However, over the past few years I'm not as much of a fan as I used to be for whatever reasons, real or imagined. So when it came to speaking at bbcon and organizing user group meetings (which were no small feat with over 120 attendees) I would question why I was doing these things for a billion-dollar company. Well, there's why and Andrea couldn't have said it better. I'm not doing it for Blackbaud, I'm doing it for my fellow database managers. My nonprofit career started in the trenches and I've done it all when it comes to fundraising database management. Over the past 20+ years I have always tried to help other fundraising database managers and continue to do so. It has always frustrated me how little support some folks get from their organizations (especially $maller orgs) and I've made it my mission to share as much knowledge as possible... for free. So, thank you Andrea for the nice reminder of why I started the user group, speak at bbcon, actively post on the Blackbaud and RE Facebook communities, and always welcome a conversation with other database managers. Happy Thursday! #gratitude #grateful #raisersedge #renxt #nonprofit #nonprofitleadership #databasemanagement #bbcon #philanthropy
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Why don't we ever see awards for Outstanding Professional Fundraising Assistant/Admin? Outstanding Professional Database Manager? Outstanding Data/Gift Entry Professional? There are plenty that I would nominate, starting with Tonia D., Cristin Snelling, Stacie Gress, Tyler Q. Becky Duran, Cheryl Mazur, Katie Knecht and Mike K. Jenny, maybe we should create and bestow our own awards to those in philanthropy ops? #database #fundraising Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP Global) #DundieAwards PhilanthropyOps Bill Connors #philanthropy #data
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Thursday already? Today's #gratitude Thursday goes out to Chelsea Stickney, a former coworker here at National Jewish Health. Chelsea started at NJH a week after I did and we had one of the best working collaborations I've ever had. We were able to create awesome processes and reports that enabled our coworkers to work smarter. She was always supportive and it was great working with her. Hopefully our paths will cross again.
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My calendar says it's time for another Gratitude Thursday, so here it goes. This week's #gratitude goes to the amazing folks from my time at American Museum of Natural History. Lawrence Ludwig T'Shawn Rivers, She/Her Chiara Alcivar (She/Her) John Davey Heather Mason Susan Uzzan Kristi (Eppinger) Schrade Elena Sergio (Coleman) Hughbert, Liz, and many, many more. In addition to being grateful for having worked with them I'm even more grateful that they were and continue to be friends. Also still floating since hanging out with some of them a few months ago in NYC. #grateful
