The hows and whys of using the modern web – Dublin

Damien Mulley is organising a conference for charities on December 8 at the Euro Commission office in Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. Excellent opportunity to learn how the freely available tools that are out there can work to the benefit of organisations.

The course is free, with a max of two attendees per NGO. You can sign up here if you’re interested.

SOFII’s new look

Are you checking out SOFII (showcase of fundraising innovation and inspiration). I have said it before and I will say it again, you should be. Its a fantastic resource, lots of great fundraising campaigns that will help you and inspire you in your work.

They are testing a new design which should be going live soon, here it is, in the meantime check out the old version and sign up for updates.

The Future of Marketing

This is great. Sometimes presentations dont make sense when you look at them like this, but this does (I can only imagine the actual presentation is pretty great). This is by Paul Isakson

Operations Manager – Chernobyl Children’s Project International

Thought this might be of interest. Based in Cork, Ireland. Here is the blurb:

CCPI (Chernobyl Children’s project International) is a not for profit organisation (NGO) founded by Adi Roche in 1991.  CCPI raises funds to support its core projects in Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia. We co-ordinate several projects such as Medical, Building, Rest & Recuperation, Community Care, Hospice and Deinstitutionalisation. CCPI has two offices; one in Cork with ten staff and one in Minsk, Belarus with eight staff. We also have a volunteer led office in Washington, USA.

We are currently seeking to recruit an experienced Operations Manager. The post holder will work closely with and report to the Chief Executive Officer

If you are interested contact the recruitment firm and ask for Sheila Hurley, + 353 (21) 48 09 11 8  or email  sheila.hurley@collinsmcnicholas.ie

Tips for Corporate Fundraising

Fundraising Ireland hosted a great seminar “Tips for Corporate Fundraising” yesterday.

It was great to hear those representing the Corporate sector state that while their departments would of course face cut backs they didnt expect those cut backs to be any more than facing other departments. Time will tell but the point being made was that any CSR/CR programmes that are being run well are providing great benefits to the organisation and therefore it will provide a competitive advantage in these more difficult times.

Another great thing during the session was the fact that the presenter from the non profit sector, Aiden Stacey, and the presenter from the for profit sector, Gerry Loughrey, were both saying the same thing, just from different view points.

So with that in mind the tips they gave are well worth a read and probably re-enforce what you are doing already.

Take a look at the presentations here.

Well done again to the organising committee of Fundraising Ireland.

Did you miss Seth Godin Session

Did you miss the session with Seth Godin on Network for Good?

Well these guys are really good, because the audio is online already as well as a transcript. Its worth a listen. Go Here to download it