Personal project social enterprise powerpoint t shirt sale

Personal project social enterprise powerpoint t shirt sale

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  The following presentationwill provide: • Background information of the organisation I did my placement with Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association Inc (LECNA). •A brief discussion of the importance of fundraising for social enterprise organisations. •And finally, I will discuss LECNA’S latest fundraising event - The T-Shirt Book & Charity sale along with my role in the fundraiser. (Lake, H 2009 via Flickr)
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  For my personalproject I decided I would like to help LECNA with anything they needed assistance with as they are an organisation I really believe in. After a brief chat with the manager it was decided I would be responsible for helping with the advertising of the upcoming T-shirt sale. LECNA is a community organisation that is situated in Springwood. They offer a huge range of services including emergency relief, no interest loans, counselling and much more. They also offer life skills and education programs such as budgeting courses and the Life Skills programme. Likewise they offer a range of social groups such as play groups, craft and cards. Support groups are also available for a range of issues such as cancer support. During my placement with LECNA I was able to see first-hand the wonderful work they are doing for the community.
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  Social enterprises relyheavily on donors, philanthropic organisations and grants in order to maintain and run services that their organisations provide. That said, fundraising is crucial for not-for-profit organisations as it provides them with more opportunities to raise money for their organisation(National Council of Nonprofits).
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  There are somany ways not- for-profit organisations can raise money through fundraising. On the right is a list which is by no means extensive but gives you an idea of just how creative and fun these fundraising ventures can be. Fundraising can be done in a number of ways. The most popular being through the running of special events (National Council of Nonprofits). Some popular ideas I have come across during my discussions with staff from LECNA and from doing various Google searches include: Bling Nights, T-Shirt Sales, Bake-Sales, Garage Sales, Father-son evenings, Mother- daughter evenings, trivia nights, chocolate drives and much more.
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  Each year theLogan East Community Neighbourhood Association hold a number of charity, book, plant and t-shirt sales. Their most recent T-shirt sale was scheduled for Saturday October 21st and they needed someone to get to work on advertising. I have never done advertising before but I was eager to give it a try. Let me just say, before helping with the advertising for this event, and helping to set up and help run the event on the day I never realised how much effort people that work in the not-for-profit sector put in to the fundraisers that they hold.
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  There were anumber of things I needed to do in order to successfully advertise the T-shirt sale. I began by creating an event on Facebook. This is a very simple and free way to advertise. Most importantly, however, Social Media can attract a lot of attention which is exactly what organisations need for fundraising events. The next step I took in advertising was to create a flyer. This was fun but also a bit of a challenge as my computer skills are a bit rusty! Afterwards it was time for me to consult with one of the administration ladies who takes care of advertising for LECNA. Luckily for me she had an extensive list of the contacts they had already established with which included local newspapers and schools. This made it just a matter of emailing them asking them to put the event in their community notices in their school newsletters and newspapers. This also made it easy to make contact with one of the editor’s at one of the local newspapers to get a feature article put in the newspaper just days before the event. We then needed to print plenty of flyers which would be distributed to local shopping centres and placed in newsletters for LECNA. I also decided in order to get the word out there and get as much attention for the event as possible I would go ‘letter-box dropping’ I delivered 100 flyers in total to letter boxes around the local area. Finally, whilst out shopping I noticed that local shopping centres often have Community Notice Boards. I decided to contact those shopping centres and ask for permission to put up posters to advertise the T-shirt sale, again, this is a cost-free and effective way of advertising. On slides 9 to 12 are samples of the Facebook Event, Flyer, and feature article that appeared in the Albert & Logan newspaper. .
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  http://quest.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
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  As I mentionedat the beginning of this presentation before being part of an event like the T-shirt sale I had no idea how much time, work and effort goes in to such an event. I really respect and admire the many dedicated volunteers and staff that turned up on the day to help unpack countless books and t-shirts to prepare for the T-shirt sale. It was a huge job and without the help of our many volunteers it would have taken a very long time and the event may not have happened!
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  Another challenge Ifaced whilst working on this event was recruiting volunteers. However, on day of set- up I was pleasantly surprised as many of the regular volunteers from LECNA showed up to lend a hand. Once again before being part of such an event I had no idea that so much work goes into the set up. We had loads of books, t-shirts and bric-a-brac which all needed to be put out. Lucky its true what they say..many hands do make light work!
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  Before setting up onthe Friday I decided to do some preparation and gather all the signs for the stock to sell on the day.
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  Setting up the children’st-shirts. There were so many cute ones! There were heaps and heaps of books to unpack. But I think its a very positive thing to encourage reading and books can be very expensive these were only $1!
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  Some of thelovely Volunteers helping set up for the event
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  T-shirts from theevent!
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  On the leftcustomers checking out the t-shirts and on the right some of LECNA’s lovely volunteers helping run the event!
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  The day wasa huge success we had a huge turn out. We sold plenty of t-shirts, books, plants and bric-a-brac. I’m glad to be able to say I was part of it as LECNA is a wonderful organisation that has a lot to offer the community. For those of you who have never volunteered or been part of one of these events I would definitely recommend that you participate in one in the future. The staff and volunteers that work in organisations like LECNA put a huge amount of time and effort into these fundraising events and they could always use more help. I hope you have enjoyed my presentation and learnt a little something about fundraising for social enterprise.
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  1. National Councilof Nonprofits 2013, Fundraising, Viewed September 25, 2013, http://www.councilofnonprofits.org/resources/resourcestopi c/fundraising 2. Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association 2013, viewed September 25, 2013, www.lecna.org 3. Albert & Logan News 2013 ‘Spring Sale To help Families’ , image, viewed September 25, 2013, via Quest Community Newspapers, http://quest.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx 4. Lake, Howard 2009 The word Fundraising, image, viewed September 25, 2013 via Creative Commons Org, via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=comm&q=fundraising