...for organization fundraising. Using the Halloween season is the best reason to give after Christmas (Waters, 2012). In the media, zombie popularity has surged. With The Walking Dead being the most top rated show in the country, there seems to be zombies everywhere. The zombie fad is displayed in books, movies, games, music, and even in the streets-zombie walks. Lately, nonprofit organizations have started using this popular trend to host their fundraising events appealing to different crowds. Especially during autumn and Halloween season, a zombie event is appropriate. A great example of how an organization has tied the zombie theme into their organization is the slogan, “Feed the Hungry”. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia located in Savannah is a volunteer-driven nonprofit food bank. They serve twenty one counties in Georgia with the mission of feeding hungry people and supporting communities. On November 10, their organization will hold their 5th Zombie Walk on River Street. Donors will dress up themselves, their children, and pets for FREE with a donation of canned goods. There is free makeup, entertainment, games, and vendors ("Savannah zombie walk ," 2011). This is great idea to me because it is a wonderful family/friend idea to do together and gives back a fun opportunity to donors. Another appropriate time for a blood drive is Halloween. No explanation for blood or gore needed. Another idea that has been created is kids ditching the candy and collecting...
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...always in need of books for their children; nonprofit book festivals always tend to help bring communities together for the hope that it will make a brighter future for New York City and its people that it touches. The key to any successful nonprofit book drive are an abundance of sponsors to help secure funding for a venue, advertising, book donations, and even a possible celebrity appearance to help with national attention. When it comes to a local book festival in New York City it is a good idea to try to get businesses either that are located within the city, or who operate throughout the city involved to help raise the pride of the residents. This tactic will help get other local businesses and people involved which will help the festival turn into a city bonding experience. The first step would be to make appointments with large corporations down to the small privately owned businesses to have a chance to explain the benefits of a local business helping its local community. The best reason to use to help convince these companies to donate funding, either volunteers or books is to help...
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...Fundraising is a demanding and often a lonely job with all the difficulties inherent in raising money and a steady flow of rejections; it’s easy to get down heaviest. Proper management of the fundraisers job means: keeping in touch with the work of the organization, the person should be in regular touch with the field, setting targets and monitoring progress, access to information, training and meeting other fundraisers and finally free time to think. The principles of fund raising in the organization is discussed below You have to ask for fund as well as authority, one of the principle of fundraising in the organization you have to ask for fund because if you do not ask no one knows that you have problem of fund for carrying out programmes or activities and for local or community fundraising you have to get permission to carry out the fundraising from different authorities that is Government authority, donors, partners, beneficiaries and other stake holders to gain support. Personal approach, the more personal your approach is, the better, for example asking someone face to face is better than; telephoning, which is better than; writing a personal letter; which is better than; giving a presentation to a group of people, better than; putting out a request on the internet. Many fundraisers prefer to send letters because sometimes it is the only way, however, its not the most effective especially when compared to; a meeting at your project when a donor can see your work and talk...
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...an ambulance or fire truck. When a disaster, for instance, a tornado occurs, the community could be the best hope for survival until responders reach the scene. Involving citizens...
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...Their Morning Buzz show talked about the event and how cute the little girl sounded, creating more of a buzz then the ad itself (Relay For Life). Compared to radio, newspapers are also easier to get the event the corporation it doing. Especially, if it is a small town newspaper that prides itself on the achievements of their graduates. Getting a story in a newspaper is more beneficial than radio because the corporation and message if more controlled by the person in the story. A lot of times, there will be an interview and can direct the conversation in the way that best suites the message. For example, for a fundraiser idea to raise money by getting retweets on twitter. The Relay For Life team contacted the local newspaper, and they were more than happy to run the story. They actually ran the story on the front page. All the team had to do was send an email, it did not only get the message out about their fundraiser but the event as well (Schueller). In this day and age social media is leading in how information and communication is getting around. The social media platforms that are on top are: Facebook, twitter, tumblr/blogs and instagrams. There are positives and negatives for each one, knowing how to properly use them is the key to make the most earned media the corporation can get. First, Facebook is not as popular as it was before, but it is still a great tool. Hashtags have become more popular on Facebook adopted from twitter. A lot of Facebook business pages have been...
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...Bye humane society. (noticing how many students visited. Bagging groceries: both involved with Bagging groceries through church Plymouth covenant. Gave us the idea. Pastor Dan gave us the idea because we went to him. Groceries best idea Experience Getting involved in community Seeing appreciation from people for offering our help And them giving there money to the people in need People’s reactions/ thoughts: Lemonade stand: The few people that stopped by wanted to know what we were doing and for what, so we explained to them that it was for a class and we were fundraising to raise money for The United Way and how it was going to help so many people. Most people were walking and stopped by to buy some lemonade GLOBAL IMPACT: Improving education: by helping children in youth achieve their potential. In the video watched, I noticed that they not only help you get on your feet, but make sure you stay on your feet. Income: promote financial stability and independence Health: improving peoples health WHAT WE COULD’VE DONE BETTER: Get opinions around campus about what people would actually buy or attend so we could base it off of that and have a better success rate Topic: The United Way Fundraiser Specific Purpose: Working in a group, and trying to raise as much money as we can for Central Idea: connecting successfully when working in a group. Intro: Attention: “United Way is working to advance the common good, by focusing on education, income, and...
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...and complete. Even though we discussed other possible avenues, Marko posed that we create a fundraiser. There was much deliberation amongst the group, as Akila urged us to explore other options and not settle for the first good idea put on the table. However, it was decided that, due to time constraints, a fundraiser for veterans would give us the greatest opportunity to demonstrate both creativity and effectiveness seen in a successful group. The next progression was to figure out how we were going to pitch this fundraiser. After a series of practically unanimous discussions, we decided to create a “Tuff-Mudders” like event, with Mark’s enthusiasm leading the way. The fundraiser would be held exclusively on US college campuses, and included an obstacle course aimed at getting students, faculty, and surrounding areas’ participation. We would cover our operating costs, eighty percent of profits would go to the vets and, as an added incentive, the rest would be donated to the host school. Our creative side was fully exposed here, and the group members each stepped up to take on various operational roles to get this project off the ground. Simultaneously, the individual roles of a group presented themselves in us, and were identified specifically by Akila and Joe D. They concluded at this time that Mark was a leader, Scott and Christina were observers, Marko and Joe F. were the idea men, and Akila kept the conversations flowing. Some members even had multiple roles as Joe F...
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...This organization is just doing what they can to help fight these things by providing what they can. Critics believe that animal gifting is the wrong way to go about making donations, because it is misleading to the public or it hurts the participants of the gift. Some believe that since the organization is gifting live animals its only causing for mouths to be fed, the animals are using a great deal of water, the Heifer organization has questionable spending habits, and claim experts disapprove of animal gifting. All though these things could raise some questions on whether this is the best way to end poverty, but the same critics that down talk the Heifer program, are also trying to promote another one that they think would be better and more efficient. So, it doesn’t matter what direction an organization might go in to end poverty, there will always be someone that’s going to claim it’s the wrong thing to do and are going to introduce a different method of solving...
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...Functions of Management Tammy B. Scruggs August 9, 2010 University of Phoenix Dr. Carol Connell Functions of Management Managers have to face the task of making decisions rather they are big or small. They have a difficult job and have to prove themselves effective when making the best decision for an organization. Some people have the management skills needed to be in a management position; whether they are arranging their activities throughout the week or making arrangement for a group of people, the process is similar to managing an office full of employees. A manager’s job is sort of like a Pastor’s job when making a decision best for the entire group of people. An effective manager will use the necessary functions to ensure the success of an organization is complete. We will discuss the four functions, in this paper, which are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. A manager must implement these functions to reach the organizations’ goals. Four Functions Planning The foundation part of management is to plan. Planning consist of creating a strategy to take the organization to a higher level. Some strategies are uncontrollable because they come from external factors that constantly affect a company. Planning is an action in which managers constantly have to stay on top of situations, depending on the certain goals the company has to accomplish (2009). Planning involves taking the necessary steps in obtaining the company’s goals. This process...
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...REASON FOR THE PROPOSAL TOPIC Due to the economic crises the organization has witness decline in money raised during fundraisers. Normally these events are held by auctioning donated goods or by donation of money for a cause. The donors are all members of the organization, on rare occasions some could be people invited by the members. Because of the decrease in funds raised, several meetings have been held, where the main agenda is ways to improve funds. A suggestion of starting up a business owned by the organization was raised, with different members having different business ideas. As a result of the above a committee was set up to look at the pros and cons of the different business ideas suggested, set up a business proposal for each, and then a decision of the most profitable and realistic one will be made by the house. One of the businesses suggested was a vegetarian shop, to me that was the best business idea. Reason being that majority of the members of BCS Charity, which is my organization are vegetarians, this means they are the first target market. What is more reliable than the business owners (BCS Charity members) patronizing their business. That was my first reason for being attracted to the business idea. The second reason is that, there are no purely vegetarian shops available in the retail sector at the moment. So it will be a good niche, and an advantage over the giant retail companies that will be the main competitors. It also will be a good money making...
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...Veronica Islas Jeremy Fannon English 081 December 11, 2014 Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Easy as One, Two, Three “If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education”. The rate of teen pregnancy is growing dramatically because there are so many uneducated teens and they are careless of the consequences that come with unprotected sex. Teens do not think about the responsibility and problems that come with having a child. Parents can also play a role on why teen pregnancy has become more common these days. There are many ways to prevent teen pregnancy we just have to educate and make birth control options easily accessible to teens. Teen pregnancy can be prevented we just have to make an effort. Teens do not have the money to buy contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. Condoms and all types of birth control should be free and easily accessible to teens. We can raise taxes and the money raised from taxes can be used to provide free condoms at high schools, pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and liquor stores. Many hardworking tax payers may argue that they shouldn’t have to pay more taxes to help irresponsible teens but it’s better to pay less taxes on providing free contraceptives, than paying more taxes on supporting these teen parents that will most likely need government assistance which will be coming out of tax payers pockets. “Teen childbearing costs U.S. taxpayers billions...
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...Week 3 Management Structures By: Misty Ladnier The organization is run by people chosen best to handle the stressful situations that we are faced on a daily basis. I have been trained to make sure that my victims are treated correctly to their individual cases. In order to do so I need an organizational structure. I will explain the advantages and disadvantages of Departmentalization, Matrix organizations, the project team, and the collegial model. Departmentalization is very tricky; you have to pair individuals up so that the department runs smoothly. Sometimes you have people that need to be trained to do this kind of work so that the department does have great communication skills to understand what is going on at all times to keep your patients happy. Matrix organizations have resources that can be shared amongst the department or company. They run on getting ideas from whatever can be tapped at that particular time. What would lead to complications are two or more people that are management and the lack of communication. This can lead to frustrations with the staff that are one step below or one step higher. The project team is the people that come up with ideas. They are the people that have events for the employees or the patients. These events can bring fundraisers for things needed for the organization. But disagreements can put any planning at a standstill and then it can become too late to have it. The collegial model is people within the company that have...
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...business model for the organization (Charharbaghi, Fendt, & Willis, 2003). To translate the ideas into a business there must be an operational system to produce and sustain the goals of the business model. The interaction of what people are thinking into an operating system enables the business to create value (Charharbaghi, Fendt, & Willis, 2003). There are numerous plans and strategies in which organizations plan to create value. The business model canvas created by Osterwalder and Pigneur is a versatile framework which enables the user to interact with ideas and create value. The canvas is separated into nine categories they are customer segments, customer relationships, channels, value proposition, key activities, key resources, key partners, cost structure, and revenue streams (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2013). Osterwalder and Pigneur state in their book Business Model Generation “A business model describes the rationale of how any organization creates, delivers, and captures value” (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2013). The business canvas enables the organization the opportunity to brainstorm ideas relevant to the specific segments of the canvas. This enables the way of thinking as a team to be displayed and business decisions to be made (Leschke, 2013). The canvas segments are divided to allow each area of the business to be represented and decisions to be made to enable the best possible outcome. Customer segments, customer relationships and the channels sections will determine...
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...Every year the student body of RH King elects two people from their grade to represent them for the student government. I had to create a speech to best represent myself and present it to the entire student body. The speech had to include what I wanted to do for the council, and how I wanted to make the school a better place. I was elected one of the grade 12 representatives against five other runners. As grade 12 rep it was very important that I equally represented all of the grade 12 students in my school. In addition, some of my responsibilities included helping to solve school problems such as making sure we raised enough money during our annual terry fox run. To ensure we reached that goal we brought in inflatables to the fundraiser and charged $1 per entry for each inflatable. This resulted in the student council making $400 more than our initial goal of $1500. Other responsibilities were creating and running school activities like, Niner Day, The Halloween Haunted House, and the upcoming semi formal. A huge part of student council is, the communication with the rest of the student body. This was very important for when an event was taking place and for encouraging student participation in all school events. For example, for our niner day event, the...
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...I was reading my schedule, and I was totally confused about it. I had no idea where all the classes were. My plan was to follow people who I thought know what they were doing, but nobody really know what to do. The teachers were all really nice when we first started junior high, but later on they started being more strict with us. My homeroom teacher Mrs. Salomone taught social studies, Mrs. Sextro teaches English to the 6th and 7th grades, as well as religion to the 6th grade. Ms. Hutchens used to teach science but she left the school and now it's Mr. Mulligan, Mrs. Heithaus teaches literature, Mrs. Lightner teaches 7th and 8th grade religion along with 8th grade English. I really liked the traffic of the hallways when switching classes. For one of our field trips we went bowling. We had to keep score using a paper...
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