Future tense? hospices and fundraising

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Future tense? hospices and fundraising

• Forum of Chairmen of Independent Hospices
• Thursday September 23rd 2004
• Jonathan Farnhill
• Director of Funding, St Lukes Hospice Plymouth,
  Stamford Road, Turnchapel, Plymouth, PL9 9XA.
  Tel [phone].
• email jonathan.farnhill_at_stlukes-hospice.org.uk

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Just a phrase Im going through

• I always start off thinking I know what is
  important, and its never whats important, its
  always something else I think you get ambushed
  by the truth

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Ive resigned myself. Im functioning within the
  parameters of my mediocrity

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Just a phrase Im going through

• If you cant comfort the afflicted, then afflict
  the comfortable

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Look how many things there are which I dont
  want!

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Happiness is less a matter of getting what we
  want, than of wanting what we have

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Marketing is the professionalisation of
  insincerity

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Just a phrase Im going through

• When we spend our own money we feel we are
  investing part of ourselves in what we buy

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Selling
• the
• halo
• effect

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Hospices are dying organisations a case of
  assisted suicide?

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Three Ancient Hospice Myths

• 1. Events lead to legacies
• 2. Giving donations corrupts patient/clinician
  relationship
• 3. Hospices are about living not dying

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Growing older you never like, because its
  sadder, because youre getting closer to dying,
  and who wants that?

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Imagination is the quality that facilitates
  compassion

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Sometimes even a blind chicken finds some grain

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Tomorrow is another country
• yesterday is another solar system

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Just a phrase Im going through

• Numbers ask questions, they dont give answers

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Started so Ill finish

1. Identify what makes your hospice work, and
   cherish it
2. See the way the world is changing, and respond to
   it
3. Be pragmatically creative, and take measured
   risks

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because shes worth it
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