Annette Strauss and Carla Francis are unemployed – neither has held a regular paying job in years. During the next several months, however, Annette Strauss will take in about $925,000, and Carla Francis hopes to pull down a quarter of a million. No, Mrs. Strauss and Mrs. Francis are not drug dealers.
But they are wheeler dealers. Mrs. Strauss and Mrs. Francis are the First Ladies of Dallas charity fund-raising. When there’s a cause that needs big money, the beneficiaries can do no better than to have one of these women at the helm. The goals they set are inevitably reached, in fact exceeded- no mean feat when you note that in 1976, of the some 130 organizations and benefit events created in Dallas for fund-raising, less than 1/3 of them reached their stated monetary goals. The funds that Mrs. Strauss and Mrs. Francis have raised as campaign chairmen for various organizations are a match for the profits of many good-sized corporations.
Consider the Strauss and Francis scorecards over the past few years:
What this means is that over a five-year period, Mrs. Strauss and Mrs. Francis will have accounted for almost two and a half million dollars. If fund-raising is an art, they’re the Grand Masters.
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