>> First and foremost I love the social impact, because you know our goal this year
as an organization is to deliver about $64 million worth
of much needed resources and experiences to students.
And being able to see on a really tangible level what that impact means,
because we get thank you letters every day coming in.
We see the photos of the activities that were funded.
It means a lot in terms of you know, the job can get a little bit mundane after a while
if you don't have a greater mission or purpose behind it.
But then the second piece that keeps me at DonorsChoose and at my role is
that my colleagues are just super bright, really innovative, data driven, performance driven,
but also really quirky, fun people.
And I think as I've progressed in my career, I've stopped looking for prestige
or for certain titles, and I've started looking more towards the culture
and the colleagues that I'd be working with.
I think the two hardest parts is having an enormous goal of raising $38 million
and sometimes waking up in the middle of the night and having a panic attack
like how are we going to get to this tremendous goal?
So, but big bold goals I think are what also keeps people excited.
So I appreciate having that huge goal.
The second piece is I think anybody who's in fundraising or even in sales,
if you're a for-profit, it's just the challenge of hearing no a lot.
And just making sure that you stay focused and positive,
and in our roles just optimistic that a lot of yeses will come.
But hearing no can get you down as well.
It's pretty challenging.