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>Fundraising is just a tool to accomplish your real goals, not a goal in and of itself. I don't disagree with that point, but it's weird to say that obtaining

• jrapdx3 11y ago
  Kind of reminds me of visiting photo gear forums. People get into crazy discussions about megapixels, resolution, dynamic range, shot noise, and everything but actually taking pictures. "Pixel peeping" is a far cry from using the gear for its intended purpose. Fundraising is like a camera, it's a tool, a means to accomplish something. A great photographer can do amazing things with a cheap camera. Achievement is measured only by the images produced, not the gear used in making them. Analogously "progress" is measured by what an enterprise produces, not how much money was raised. In short, having tools is not the same as using them, especially using them well. IOW having tools is a necessary, but not sufficient condition of making progress.
• Falkon1313 11y ago
  Goals are different than objectives. We can expend so much time and effort working to acquire money (objective) to be able to buy the tools we need (objective) to do something (goal), that we don't have enough left to actually use the tools to actually do the thing. A lot of people have basements, garages, or closets full of tools that they've obtained for various things but never really used. It happens in businesses too. And now they have sunk costs, so they need more money.