Most donors are 55 and older, studies show. For good reason. This is not a hill to die on. The science is a wall of granite. People age into their prime giving years. They've bought everything they feel they really need. If they never had kids, they're swimming in cash they have no real use for.
I am 70 as I write this. That scares me less than it scares you, if you think of me as a brain worth salvaging from the obvious.
I heard hell freezing over on her end. As expected; the usual obstacle.
I had on the phone a fundraiser in her 40s or 50s. She didn't know or ask my age; as expected; like me at her age. Presumptuous. Anyone older was suspect. I'd written a bunch of books. I was a checklist. There were worst things.
Revealing your age in certain contexts is a death sentence.
My top mentor through my early 50s was in his 70s.
Bob
Typical, I've witnessed later.
Hidden from me, he took minute-by-minute care of a cancer-riddled spouse 15 years his younger. Bob comforted and nursed her 24 hours a day; responding to Janet's every scream of pain. She died by his side. He declined in silence, suffering from devastating prostate cancer that was never his focus.