Fundraising Forum 85     MILESTONE THINKING           On-target observations in brief           It’s important to listen when your principal donors offer suggestions or criticisms. After all, they represent your major ‘investors’. Be proactive at seeking out their opinions regarding your mission, case statement, strategic plans and other issues.     With acknowledgement to Successful Fund Raising August 2009, Volume XVII, No.8           True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination – the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them.     I.A.R. Wylie           I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, for it shows me the stars.     Og Mandino           Often when there’s change, people believewe are leaving what’s been working over time behind. The idea is to add capacity and to bring new ideas and new people and new models to the fore and to the task of addressing these big challenges.     With acknowledgement to Melody Barnes in The Chronicle of Philanthropy June 4 2009           We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.     Marian Wright Edelman           The challenges non-profit groups facetoday demand that we find a better way to insert business expertise into the nonprofit world. In building a bridge between business and non-profit groups, we must devise solutions that both improve our communities today and build a lasting resource for non-profit organisations.     With acknowledgement to Virginia Turner in Successful Fund Raising December 2006, Volume XIV, No. 12         To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.     Joanne Stepaniak