#396 - How a Teacher-Turned-CEO Landed Her First Six-Figure Gift

Opublikowano: 2026-07-13

I love a good transformation story, and Lucy Madden's is one of my favorites. Lucy was a middle school science teacher who ran a snail mail pen pal program in her classroom, pairing her students with STEM professionals around the world. She watched her kids start imagining bigger futures for themselves, so she turned it into an organization: Letters to a Pre-Scientist. Now she's the CEO, and she's fundraising for it as a team of basically one. When we started working together, Lucy had 10 to 15 donors giving $1,000 or more, and those gifts felt random. In...