I got a charity solicitation in the mail today from an organization that I used to volunteer with/for. I’ll probably give them a bit of money. I went to look at the giving envelope and, as with so many charities, it has suggested ranges and labels.
Partners: $1-$99
[snip]
Benefactors: $500-$999
Visionaries: $1,000-$2,499
and so on…
On the one hand, I chuckled a bit to myself. Who falls for this label stuff? On the other hand, I had a flash of thinking - gee, can I get a cool title for giving $X?
Years of D&D and other games have trained me to strive for cool sounding titles and rewards.
My wife was greatly amused by a theatre company she collaborated with - one of their donation titles was “Enabler” - and coming from a family background of alcohol and drug abuse, it struck her as funny that they thought that was a good title to give out!
I can’t find a quick google reference for it now, but some time ago I found some information that explained that in some religious military orders, they had the Donate X, receive Title Y arrangements. In fact, the term “Donat”, was one of them in one order. As I recall, there was a rank of titles for non-clergy members who were essentially the donors.
