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The Wamo Workshop Founder
Rick Macauley, a 1973 graduate of the Los Angeles Grantsmanship Center, was described by WAMO graduate Roberto Nerey as ‘a cross between a humorous financial encyclopedia, a Marine Corps Drill Instructor, and a personal fitness trainer.’ Initially funded by the Las Vegas Jaycees and Trans World Airlines, he travelled all across the country conducting workshops for Chambers of Commerce and for Junior Chambers of Commerce that indicated they either had dysfunctional boards, hopeless debts, inabilities to generate sufficient revenues to conduct their programs, or desires to “financially get their acts together.”
Mr. Macauley is a Journalism graduate from the University of Nevada at Reno, served as an Army helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, and has been a journalist, creative writer, and technical writer around his career as a funding development consultant.
When the U. S. Chamber of Commerce learned about his workshop in 1974, they recruited him as a U.S. Chamber Resource Person and referred him to every local Chamber that indicated they needed fiscal assistance. The word got out quickly and in that year of training, TWA awarded him three “Around The World Certificates” for flight miles logged. That year he was also awarded the International Jaycees’ highest award, a JCI Senatorship, for his program.
He describes the two-day course thus: “There’s a good reason why I call it a workshop – it’s a back breaker that requires commitment and hard work, but at the end you’ll have all the tools and knowledge to either ‘turn around’ a weathered organization, or start a new one with the fresh energy needed to succeed. In short, you’ll want to ‘sleep in’ the day after the workshop ends. Methodically implement the workshop's step-by-step follow-up action plan, and you won’t believe what happens the month after the workshop ends.” |
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