Enough. Enough already!” said a capital-campaign donor when the performing-arts center came back seeking a gift for its third campaign in less than five years.
More and more nonprofit organizations are joining the capital-campaign bandwagon. Once the purview primarily of educational institutions and hospitals, capital campaigns are now frequently run by organizations of all sizes and types and in all nonprofit fields. Some organizations seem to be continuously in capital-campaign mode — either preparing for one, in the midst of one, or coming off the last and readying for the next.