Why consult a professional fundraising host, when you can do it your self? You have connections to a Christie's or Sotheby's auctioneer, an enigmatic CEO, a persuasive Executive Director, an outspoken board member, friend of a friend, or know someone witty. Selling art to a room of captive buyers differs GREATLY from appealing to donors at a gala. As for the rest, you are placing your life in the hands of a gifted amateur. Hugh Hildesley said it best: “It would be impossible