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M.GemmellAdministrative Vice President,Princeton University  \n(Excerpted fram a talk befare the Cauncil Far Financial AidEducation Presidents'Seminar,St.Lauis,Mo.,December 12,1960.)  \nm  \nL he term \"special gift\"needs redefinition.As it hasbeen used in the last several decades in fund raisingfor schools and colleges,hospitals and churches,it hasbeen used to designate gifts solicited personally withcareful forethought and individual preparation.Theminimum figure that was included in the connotationsof the phrase was $1,000.  \nConfining our attention now to higher educationalone,gifts of $1,000 or even $5,000 or $10,000 todaycan have only limited significance in any organizedeffort to raise capital funds.That significance is thatthey do give to any fund raising effort that indispensableaura of universal attention and interest that is so vitallyimportant in the solicitation of the real special gift,thatis to say,the gift of $100,000 and up.  \nToo many Americans of substantial means have failedto take into account in their conception of philanthropicgenerosity the inflation of which they_are so acutelyaware in their own personal affairs.The special giftwhich I propose that we discuss this morning is thegift in at least six figures and,as often as possible,agift of seven figures.Any discussion of succesful soli-citation of gifts in eight figures would have to be ledby President Griswold of Yale.He has achieved twoof these in recent years,a feat which we may all regardwith the proper mixture of awe and envy.  \nThe first question to which I address myself is ashort one:\"What's big?\"In the fund raising operationsI have had an opportunity to observe or participate inin the past twenty-five years,I have never encounteredan instance in which damage was done through thesolicitor having set his sights too high.All too often realdamage has been done to the effort by underestimatingthe potential of the prospective donor.  \n# TheBulletin\n\nof THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 0F FUND-RAISING COUNSEL  \nQuarterly  \n# CAPITAL FUNDRAISING—THE SPECIAL GIFT\n\nI do not imply that every man whose roof does notleak is a prospect for a six figure gift.There are rela-tively few families with means of this order of magnitude.The unhappy fact is that,of this very small andselect group,only a very small fraction have everthought of philanthropy in these terms.Despite all thepublicity that is given to the tax benefits offered forphilanthropy,the great majority of American million-aires are not taking advantage of the savings which thelaw offers,and institutions.both public and private,suffer as a result.  \n## The Elements in the Quest\n\nLet us approach our subject with a brief considera-tion of the respective roles of the four elements withinany college and university which have a part to play inthe cultivation and solicitation of real special gifts:thestaff,the trustees,the faculty and the president.  \nThe role of the staff is,I believe,generally well un-derstood.It is staff responsibility to search out,toidentify and to collect information on prospects forwhat we at my university call \"major gifts,\"six figuregifts.Obviously,the rosters of the institution's variousconstituencies need constant attention and sifting.  \nAlumni constitute the first and primary source.Butthere are others.There are the parents and relatives ofpresent and former students.There are the \"friends\"of each institution,either geographical neighbors orothers who have developed some interest in some phaseof the institution's activity.There are the friends andadmirers of the faculty.There are the corporationswhose representatives frequent our campuses,eitherto recruit graduates or to consult with members of thefaculty.There are foundations,large and small.All of  \nthese are natural prospects,and it is the staff's respon-sibility to list their names accurately,search for evidenceof their resources and study 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