Funding for Nonprofits, summer 2004

For Jay Mendell's book on overcoming stigma in fund raising, please surf to http://black-sheep-library.com That's Black Sheep Fundraising: Obtaining Dollars Despite Stigma and Prejudice toward Abortion, AIDS, Alcoholism, Birth Control, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Homelessness, Homosexuality, Mental Disorders, Partner Violence, Sex Education, Teenage Pregnancy, the Unemployed, the Ex-Offenders, the Illegal Immigrants, the Juvenile Offenders, the Elderly, and Other Outcast Causes .

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PAD 4202 Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

Summer Session "C" (full summer semester, 05-10-04 through 08-06-04)
Saturday, 9:15 a. m. through 12:50 p. m.

Much of what you will learn in here is not written down anywhere, at least not in a well organized way. You will have to show up on time every time, having studied in advance the material below, and pay attention; and you well have to ask questions, then go out and study the additional materials that I direct you to. You can't be passive. By the way, if you are late or skip class or let your attention wander, you are sure to miss something important. And that's your tough luck.

I do not try very hard to be well organized. I launch into stream of consciousness lectures, and you get the point if you pay attention and ask questions, or you don't. If you don't, that too is your tough luck.

There are deadlines for turning in projects, and if you miss a deadline, there is no way to be sure what I will do with your late submission. Possiblly I will accept it, but possibly I will also misplace it. (I'll try not to lose it; but I won't try very hard.)

There are formats and instructions to follow, and if you fail to comply with directions, there is no way to be sure your paper will be recognized and credited to you. (I'll try to credit your work to you, but I won't try very hard.)

Several times a week you will please have to check this Web page for additions and clarifications. Go the bottom and check for added notations. I add to the end of this page to avoid using e-mail.

To send me email, please use mendelljay@gmail.com. If you are a belt-and-suspenders guy or gal, send a second copy to mendelljay@yahoo.com In the subject line type "I am a student in PAD computer systems." And when you send me e-mail, be sure to include your name, not just your e-mail address. It is helpful if you include your phone numbers at home and work and your cell phone number.

Grading.

Your grade will principally be based on how well you complete the written assignments that I will give each week and the short quizzes I will give whenever I feel the urge (and I will feel the urge often).

Attendance and promptness count, too, since (1) I like to give a brief quiz about two minutes after the scheduled start of class and (2) if you are not around when I return graded HW, it goes into the trash, and you or a friend will have to do a dumpster dive to retrieve it. and (3) if you do not turn in your HW when I ask for it, I may very well misplace it.

On occasion you may be late or you may be unprepared, but you can't be both and escape my wrath.

If you cannot reach the Broward property appraiser's site, see the workaround I have posted below.

A) Your nonprofit needs a new building, which will cost $2,000,000. As chair-human of the board (and a very busy and important C. B. L. F.) you figure you are willing to raise gifts in the range $50,000 and up (phase one). You figure you will have to visit four persons for each successful donation. If you use the gifts table generated by http://www.developmentconsultant.com/standards.html ,how many visits will you have to make? (We will do this in class, and you can replicate our method in the following problems.)

If you have to buy each prospect two lunches at $35.00, how much will you spend out of pocket?

B) There are ten other members of your board of directors, and they are going to raise donations in the range $5000-$25,000. You figure they will have to make three visits for every successful donation. How many visits will each of the ten members have to make?

C) You have 50 volunteers to make phone calls to raise $1000-$2500. Because they are not very experienced volunteers and the telephone is not a great vehicle compared with personal visitations, you figure they will have to make five calls for every successful donation. So, how many call will each volunteer have to make?

If each call takes 30 min preceded by an additional hour of prospect research, how many hours will each volunteer invest?

You are preparing to accompany Professor Mendell on a visit to a prospective donor. You want to dress appropriately. Describe what you will wear. Hint: dress as if for a job interview.

If you prefer not to write, have someone shoot a head to toe digital photo of you all dressed up. Print a copy in color to bring to class to turn in, and also email me the picture as a TIFF, JPG or BMP file that I may post to our Web site.

You need to meet the following two persons (not necessarily for fundraising), and you would prefer to arrange an appointment through a friend or a friend of a friend.

How would you go about getting an introduction to each of them. Be specific i naming names.

This is hard, so don't dawdle. If you do not turn it in an time, I will assign a different pair of persons as makeup.

Which one of you did research on John Temple and forgot to put her name on the HW? Bodniza? Brown? Who?

"As FAU increasingly uses e-mail to correspond with its students, it
becomes more important to have accurate and reliable e-mail addresses
for them. In the past, FAU students had the option of using FAU e-mail
account or one from a commercial Internet service provider (ISP) and
also had the option of providing an e-mail address (or multiple
addresses) to the Registrar's Office for inclusion in their student
record. The result is that FAU administrators frequently did not have
reliable e-mail addresses for students. Faculty faced the same issue in
their attempts to contact students in their classes by e-mail because
students frequently changed ISP. To resolve this situation, FAU is
implementing the following new e-mail policy, effective August 1, 2004:

"When contacting students via e-mail, the University will use only the
student's FAU e-mail address. This will ensure that e-mail messages
from FAU administration and faculty can be sent to all students via a
valid address. E-mail accounts are provided automatically for all
students from the point of application to the University. The account
will be disabled one semester post-graduation or after three
consecutive semesters not registered for a course.

"These e-mail addresses are stored in Oasis, the student information
system, and faculty will have access to them via the coursetools in
MyFAU.

"We are beginning an information campaign to familiarize students with
the policy and to instruct them in how to access their e-mail and other
accounts via their FAUNetID, a username used for various computing
services offered by FAU: MyFAU (e-mail, calendar, announcements, etc.),
Blackboard, computer lab access, file storage (also known as Active
Directory/ANDI).

"For more information on these services, visit http://accounts.fau.edu
and click on FAQ/Help. The MyFAU site also includes an interactive demo
of MyFAU features."

Federal grants.	Go to http://www.cfda.gov/public/faprs.htm. Also try grants.gov Confidentially, these federal search engines stink. Yet they are better than a kick in the butt by a ski boot.
Best for Florida grants.	For state grants, Florida Resources Directory. The Florida Resource Directory is a searchable database which can be searched by Agency, Category of Assistance, Program or Keyword as shown below. Once you have found a program in which you are interested, you can print the page or access the associated website and/or link to the program's contact for more detailed information and/or an application. State grants and benefits State grants offices
Corporate grants to nonprofits (keyword searches)	Visit http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp1.html
Private foundations and charities (keyword searches)	Visit http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv1.html, then http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_pubch/pubch1.html
The Foundation Center's complete database may be consulted at four locations in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In WPB, go to the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. In Boca Raton, a few blocks east of FAU is the Junior League of Boca Raton. In Fort Lauderdale, Nova University is the archive, and in Miami, the United Way.

On July 10, 2004, Ms. Melissa Martin from the Volunteer Center will brief us on internship opportunities in Broward.

It is anticipated that the technicail model and solutions, once established, will be widely transferable within the sector. A particular emphasis will be placed on hardware, software, communicatiins and bibilographic standards. The knowledge and experience gained will be extensively disseminated to academic staff librarians IT staff educational developers, and staff development officers. As well as the committment on behalf of the four consortium members, there is positive support from publishers (u. u., Blackwells and Churchill Livingstone). We have also obtained active support from a major library systems co-operative. In order to draw up a technical specification we have undertaken initial discussions with hardware and software suppliers who have indicated their wish to be associated with the Project. However, at this stage, we would seek to maximise JISC's investment by recommending that we undertake a formal tender for equipment.

Second, use the tips of "Words That Work . . " to add some pep and salesmanship.

The link to the Coordinating Council's list of variables that can be used to explain failure to meet your measurable objectives is http://www.sfrpc.com/ccb/tbbhome.htm

PAD 4202 Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

Do you really want to be in this class?

How to reach me.

Gadget.

Address.

Where I’ll receive your message.

When to use it.

Details.

Lame excuses.

Arriving late and leaving early.

Unannounced quizzes.

Turning in HW on time.

Failing to pick up work.

Required materials