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What should we do?

• Powerpoint finalized today

• Sam
  • Finalize powerpoint (KNOW what I'm going to say)
  • Print banner (put website on it)
  • For details about event:
    • Time, date of event
    • Specifics
    • Link to participating restaurants
    • Menus?
    • Map of mall
    • Schedule of events?
• Diane
• Scott
• Irene

Class Notes

3/15/2005

• Improving sector effectiveness:
  • More clear definitive mission / strategy
  • Measurement problems
• Public visibility
  • How do you raise awareness in the community?
• Cost of funding
  • Reducing the cost of funds, annual fundraiser?

3/20/2005

Economist articles?

Paper - think of this as something you will hand to the donor.

• Part should be background
• Part should persuasively
  • What is it you do?
  • Why?
  • What is your success?
  • What is the evidence of your success?

"Deliverable" - will be our NP fundraising campaign along with a one page memo explaining what we did to create them

• What you thought about while we did it
• What the process was

Project will be based on three distinct "deliverables:"

• Thing you're giving to the organization
• The report < focus on the successes
• The pitch

3/27/2005

Details about presentation

• 10-12 min limit
• 5-7 minutes of Q&A
• 1 minute to break down for next group
• Powerpoint sent to Pentz-Harris by 9:00 AM and download it on the desktop on room 124.
• Have backups ready
• Deliverables, memo, papers due friday
  • Memo is what you would write to your boss explaining what you have been working on with your client

Advice about presentation

• Don't stand up and say, "if you give us $1,250 we're going to do this with it"
• If necessary, you could give this to your NPO and they could use it for other donors
• Success
  • Convey how the NPO has succeeded
  • FOCUS ON LOCAL SUCCESS, history of organization is not that important
• Struggles
  • Convey it has an opportunity or area for potential growth
  • Talk about how they have been attacking the challenge
  • DON'T say if we win, this struggle will be solved.
• Appeal to the classmates
  • Rational appeal - articulates value (economic, social, moral) about the cause
  • Emotional appeal - generate empathy for those effected
  • Moral appeal - appeal to what is "right an proper"
• Focus on what organization gives back, and "why class should give to us"
• Differentiate us from everyone else, get "that hook." Find the part of the organization that makes it different.
• Watch your tone
  • Don't come across as too aggressive or "winey"

Notes on report

5-7 pages.

• Background on organization
• Outline of your recommendations
• Whatever you give them
• What is this organization, what are they trying to do, what do you see them doing well, etc.

3/28/2006

Prevention through Education

• Adult programs:
  • Information about SARA Services
  • How to cope with Sexual Violence and harassment
  • Risk Reduction and Self-Defense for Women
    • RAD: a 15 hour class that teaches risk reduction through increased awareness and physical self-defense
• VIVA:
  • Prevention through Peer Education
    • Play about relationship and sexual violence among teens
    • Workshop-style presentations by VIVA peer educators
• CAP:
  • Education of parents, teachers, and children about the prevalence of child sexual assault

VIVA AND CAP ARE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE THEY HAVE A RELIABLE ANNUAL FUNDING SOURCE

Implementation

• While working with SARA, we realized the importance of a reliable discretionary funding source
• This is why we've decided to continue to work with SARA, and plan to help them hold the event in 2007
• We feel this event has a great potential to become that reliable funding source
• However SARA does not currently have the upfront capital available to implement this project

Measures of success

• Goals
  • Our achievement of these goals will be measured based on the following metrics
• Measurement
  • due to the nature of the metrics, we can preform statistical tests and determine if our fundraiser has created a significant impact

Research Notes

• History
  • Diane
• Funding
  • Irene
• Volunteers & Clients
  • Sam
• Activities and Projects
  • Scott

Volunteers & Clients

Clients

SARA provides support to sexual assult victims.

What impact has SARA made on those it serves?

• SARA volunteers and staff provided over 1900 crisis-intervention and support services to over 800 women, children, and men in 2003.
• SARA volunteers and staff provided over 1200 services to 452 new clients. 41% of the clients served had been assault within the past month.

Available services:

• 24-hr hotline
• Counselors
• Advocacy
  • Legal advocacy
    • Explains reporting options.
    • Works with police, lawyers, victim-witness, and the courts.
  • Medical advocacy & support
• assult reporting
  • anonymous assult reporting
• Self defense classes
  • RAD

Volunteers & getting involved

Volunteer service opportunities:

• Staffing 24-hour hotline
• Emergency room support
• More about volunteer opportunities here
  • Volunteer job position

Other opportunities

• White ribbon campaign
  • To raise awareness of violence by men against women.
  • Starting on November 30, for one week we urge men and boys to wear a white ribbon, including one on their coat so the ribbon will be visible while they're outdoors.
• Donations
• Promote social change

From the cav daily

SARA, comprised of around 30 volunteers, serves both the University and a broad range of counties in and around Albemarle County. SARA Outreach Advocate Jessica McGrane said the role of the SARA staff and volunteers is to provide information to the community and support individuals working through assault experiences. [1]

Effectiveness vs. Efficiency

Hard to determine efficiency because SARA is a service based business