Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2002. Mattie was four months old and beginning to eat solid foods, such as rice cereal! Mattie LOVED it! This photo was taken prior to Mattie getting a high chair. So literally we would feed him on a lap or in his car seat! Turns out Mattie wasn't a high chair fan, so literally we fed him for as long as possible in his car seat. Until he outgrew it!
Quote of the day: Fundraising success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
Tonight's quote is simply brilliant! Churchill was correct, when trying to fundraise, you deal with a lot of rejection and failure. The key is how do you remain enthusiastic about what you do? I think the answer is you have to really be committed to what you are doing, believe in it, and be passionate about it. If you have this recipe in the mix, then there is a rational way through the failure.
For example, I am working hard at finding additional corporate sponsors this year for our annual event. I have been working on connecting with people since the Fall. People who appeared to be interested in supporting us with a sponsorship. But when confronting the issue, they appear to be unwilling to commit. I could get down about that, or even wonder how someone could have doubts about supporting our mission and goals. But instead, I truly don't dwell on it and instead focus on finding the businesses who are better matches for us. I am happy to report that almost all of our corporate sponsors from last year's Walk have recommitted for this year. That to me is something to celebrate.
As we are now into February, I turned my attention today to our Walk raffle. I wrote 17 requests to local businesses for gifts in kind, and have more to do on Sunday. Half the battle is getting started and organized.
Meanwhile, tomorrow, Mattie Miracle is hosting a three hour strategic planning session with four psychosocial professionals to discuss ideas for developing a checklist and guidelines to help implement the psychosocial standards at treatment centers around the country. Implementation is a large undertaking, but we are committed to this because we do not want the Standards to just sit on a shelf, we want them to be usable to assist families as well as the providers.
As for Sunny, his paw has been bandaged now for two weeks. Getting dressing changes every other day at his vet's office. Today was the last visit! Sunny has his bandage off, but we now have to apply a medical powder twice a day to his nail and he must continue to wear his protective boot outside. It is my hope that the nail begins to grow back, but for now without the bandage, I can see that Sunny is uncomfortable.
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