The Path to Commitment By the third time someone hung up on me, I knew that fundraising wouldn’t be as easy as I had thought. I learned quickly that even good causes have a hard time raising money, and that I’d have to get used to hearing the word “no.” Several weeks earlier, I had volunteered with The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families (CHCF), a nonprofit dedicated to the needs of disadvantaged Hispanics. My first job was...