Some people find it hard to ask other people for money, even when it’s not for personal gain, but when it comes to not for profit organisations, the responsibility to stay financially viable partially rests on the shoulders of the board. There are however creative ways to create income without ‘fundraising’. Neil Edgington from Social [...]
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Merry Christmas
Posted in PR, tagged best wishes, merry christmas on 21/12/2011 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to take the opportunity to wish all of my friends, colleagues and associates a very happy festive season and all the best for the New Year and beyond. Thank you for following me throughout the year and I look forward to us learning and growing together. Merry Christmas!
How to use the media to promote your not-for-profit
Posted in business skills, marketing, PR, public relations, tagged marketing, media, PR, press release on 05/01/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Article by Belinda Collins. First pubished in Third Sector Magazine. Belinda Collins headed World Vision’s Media and Public Relations team through the Boxing Day tsunami period, raising $80 million in fourteen days and managing the World Cup Asia Tsunami Cricket match. Her step-by-step guide will give you the basic tools you need to be successful [...]
PR Ideas for Not-For-Profit Organisations
Posted in business skills, Business tools, PR, public relations, tagged media, PR, public relations on 09/12/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not-For-Profit (NFP) organisations need to promote their business in order to continuously attract new members, volunteers, funding and recognition to the cause. But what low cost options are there available to NFP organisations? Firstly look at the talent already operating within your organisation from your board members through to your staff and volunteers. Is there [...]
What makes a good press release?
Posted in business skills, Business tools, marketing, PR, public relations on 17/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last thing you want if you’ve gone to the effort of writing a press release for your organisation is to have it end up in a bin in someone’s office, so make sure that it is formatted correctly. There is a generally accepted layout for press releases. If you follow that you have a reasonable [...]
Butchers knife, tennis racquet and a rat
Posted in PR, treasurer, volunteer, tagged marketing, tools, volunteer treasurer on 27/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week we had the official launch of Admin Bandit Online. In my launch speech, I had great fun telling a story of when I was a child growing up in the country during a mouse plague and my beloved mother chased a rat in the kitchen with the first thing she could grab (butcher’s knife). [...]
