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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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 [...]
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Posted in community, public relations, tagged awards, volunteer, WIC on 17/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
… who is the WICkedest of them all. This question was asked last month at the annual WIC Winter Dinner. Three women in the ICT industry were finalists for the auspicious title of WICked Woman of the Year. Much to my shock, I was announced as the most WICked of them all for 2009! This [...]
Benefits of blogging
Posted in business ideas, marketing, public relations, tagged blogging, prizes, small business on 11/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
After winning a Macbook Air in a Twitter competition I was on a high! Dr Greg Chapman of Empower Business Solutions – Australian Business Coaching was working on increasing traffic to his very educational small business blog. He offered the best three comments on his blog during the month an HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless [...]
Admin Bandit Online Software named nation’s best in community sector
Posted in public relations, tagged community best, excellence, iaward on 03/06/2009 | 2 Comments »
Admin Bandit has just been named the nation’s number one software product for the community sector after its national win at the iAwards, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) ICT industry awards. The award, seen as one the IT industry’s highest accolades, was a great scoop for the local Canberra business, when it won last [...]
