Sunday, April 4, 2010

Mattering is The Only Thing That Matters


And Denise matters. For about four years she has been the mortar that holds together all of the bricks that make up the effort to save the wild horses of Corolla. Her precise job title is not as important as what it is that she actually does. She is the delegatee. She is the person who both implements the ideas of others and heads off problems before they come up.

It would be difficult to come up with a better team to staff the Corolla Wild Horse Fund than the team that we have. As good as the rest of our staff is, they could never achieve the successes that have been racked up in recent years without having her there. A lot of cliches about a first rate staff member come to mind. It may not seem flowery enough of a thing to say but the bottom line is that Denise is solid and she is a grown up. Non profit organizations of all kinds tend to attract well intentioned, good hearted people who are flighty, at times unreliable, and who always wear their hearts on their sleeves. The most frustrating part is that it is often the heart of a 13 year old.

To save these horses we need solid, grown ups like Denise.

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