{The Hero and the Committee (2) [continued]}[17th February 1988]

[Redbook5:19][19880217:1945b]{The Hero and the Committee (2) [continued]}[17^th February 1988]

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I notice that later in the same article,* [AZ]* is described as a believer in 'networking' – a term I first heard from [YX],** also (at that time anyway) a fund-raiser. I have the impression that this is a female invention, as one would expect from Circles Analysis. ([AZ]* has joined 'Women in Fund Raising Development'). As I may have remarked, Networking sounds like something we tried to get rid of in the sixties, because it was intentionally classist, sexist, and (of course) racist: the Old Boy Net. This is the New Girl Net.***

****[AZ] wants to watch it, though, with comments about donor participation. Advertising budget, OK: Charitable covenant, risky.# But it is a long time since I was involved in that field.

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(I rather think she may have got up the interviewer's nose in the end.)

*[See last previous entry, 1^st para.]

**[Redbook4:296-298][19880109:0947g]{Birth dates [continued (7)] – Great is Diana [continued (3)]}[9th January 1988]

***(A brilliant American (New Yorker?) cartoon some years ago showed a middle-aged, middle-class man looking up from his newspaper at his rather ordinary wife, asking her: 'Just what do you people want?' (or words to that effect).)

[There is no suggestion or implication intended whatsoever that the person mentioned here is classist, sexist or racist: the adjectives are applicable to the erstwhile Old Boy Net.]

****{This remark [including footnote #] is out-of-place.}

#Tax-wise: but they probably are all P[ublic] R[elations] expenses anyway, so [therefore] deductible, I guess. <880221>

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