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It’s a giver’s market
Just as a handful of South Sound organizations successfully conclude capital campaigns, another group turns up fund-raising efforts. Can they all succeed?

C.R. ROBERTS; The News Tribune
Last updated: March 6th, 2005 02:40 AM


The Girl Scouts raised more than just the $5.4 million.
Sometimes, that’s what capital campaigns do. They also raise consciousness. And confidence. They raise questions. They also offer the occasional surprise.

Before their recent campaign, the most money the Scouts’ Pacific Peaks Council had raised in a year was $108,000, said Executive Director Kathleen Houston.

The board of directors was considering a major campaign and commissioned a 1998 feasibility study. The results were positive, Houston said, but “we needed to do a little more to get ready.”