Jim Norvell

Reflections for the Effective Capital Campaigner: Quotes, Axioms and Observations to Help You Expand Our Important Institutions Jim Norvell

The capital campaign is a statement of will, but it had better be a statement of potantial. A successful campaign has far greater ramifications than the organization's leadership ever foresees. The successful campaign creates a new organization, not just a bigger one - an organization that recognizes its past only as a developmental phase of what is to become. The bar is raised, but the confidence level jumps even while being pressed to keep pace with ever-escalating expectations. Capital campaigns are for achievers, not the mere hopeful. With those words as a sendoff, Norvell proceeds to lay otu some basic insights about how organizations behave in a capital campaign and how to ghet them to operate better. His sage observations are linked with insightful and sometimes witty quotations from the famous and nearly so.