JOHN EGGERS COLUMN: How to raise money and market your ideas Every nonprofit agency in Bemidji and the surrounding area should have sent a representative to the recent Zoom Sunrise Rotary symposium, “Your Mission Matters,” which dealt with helping agencies raise money and market their ideas. Yes, it was that good. Written By: John Eggers | × Before I share some tips about how to raise money I wish to pay a personal tribute to lifelong educator, Mark Fodness. I didn’t know Mark well but both of my children had him as a teacher. On one occasion, when Mark was teaching about the Battle of Gettysburg, he invited his students and parents to an after school showing of the movie "Gettysburg." I accompanied my daughter to the movie at the middle school. I was so caught up in it that I used it as a teaching moment in many of my Wisconsin graduate classes. Mark’s style of teaching had a unique way of not only influencing his students but, in this case, the parents of his students as well. Thanks, Mark. You can be assured that your influence on your students will go on and on and on.