May / Mary Oishi shares her perspective on connecting with major donors.
Mary Oishi was a Development Director at three stations: a community station, a college station, and a hybrid college/community station, from 1996 to 2019. She took the latter station that was routinely in the red, with no reserve funds and no major donors, to a station which balanced the books every year after her first 8 months, and before she retired, had compiled a $100,000 reserve fund and over $1 million promised to its endowment.