>> I think, you know in the past few years fundraising
or a position in fundraising has evolved.
It used to be a career that you just happen to come across,
now there's a lot more science behind it or a lot more folks are interested
in pursuing a career in fundraising.
My area of fundraising is very technical, estates and trusts focused because we deal
with donors who are interested in leaving Rollins in their estate plans or doing some type
of charitable trust or complex giving arrangement and so it just works well
to have a background in law to be able to have conversations with their attorneys and be able
to structure the gift and draft the documents accordingly.
That being said there's various areas of fundraising, and you can start off
with annual giving, then major gifts and then gift planning where I am and to,
in each of those areas you can start from college and end up perhaps in annual giving,
you can come from a sales job or some other type of metrics driven job for lack of a better word
and major gifts would just be a position that you can apply that skill set to,
and in gift planning you find a lot of attorneys who left private practice or left practice
and they have transitioned well into that area.