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| Departing, disgruntled Board member wants all "her" donors and contacts back.
Posted by ljames1212   on 11/20/2009, 3:10 pm
A Board member who has been with our organization since its founding 12 years ago, and was president for 6 of those years, has resigned one year into the leadership of her successor as Board president. She reneged on a previously counted large pledge -- we've written that off -- but has also asked me, as Development Director, to remove all her donor and prospect contacts from our data base, events, mailings, etc. I notified current Board leadership of this request, and we are looking into what's legal. My feeling is that while we might expunge prospects, once someone has donated to the organization, they are "ours." While this former director is free to contact her friends, etc., saying she has severed her relationship with us, and not to give, I don't think it's right for us to remove past donors from our lists; we have been cultivating and growing relationships with these donors, and it would like undoing years of growth and work. Has anyone else had such a situation arise, and, if so, how did you handle it?
Many thanks,
Laura
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- Departing, disgruntled Board member wants all "her" donors and contacts back. - ljames1212 11/20/2009, 3:10 pm
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