As you were saying, I'm from a very small community. There are 20,000 people living in Rivière-du-Loup, 35,000 in the MRC de Rivière-du-Loup, so it is very small.
We have to work very hard to raise money just to maintain our mission as such. I would say that we can gather maybe 10% of our annual budget through these means, maybe more, because we have an annual event. Maybe it is a bit more. Maybe it is 15% or such. But the sum of work needed to do such a job
creates a situation that means that our staff is often obligated to neglect the institution's mission and focus on fundraising, which takes up an enormous amount of time. Where I am—and I am really only talking about my museum—we have an auction every year. Last week, we raised $32,000 in the community, but someone had to work on organizing the event for the equivalent of four or five months of full-time hours, and that does not include the other people from my team who work on the ground to find funding, a partner for an exhibition or other project, and so on. We are meeting this need, but it is often at the expense of our mission. Our needs are huge.