I have found that using Google to look up examples of various advocacy plans and techniques that other people use to be very helpful when coming up with my own ideas of presenting my plan. If anyone has any ideas for how to fundraise for education please let me know. This seems to be my difficulty right now. I have been talking to a few people who are willing to help by monetary donations but overall it would not be enough to fulfill by advocacy plan dealing with early literacy.
I hope to find new ways to fundraise buy doing some more research online and going out into my community to find out how other non-profit groups raise the money that they need for their causes. I am excited to present my plan even though I am still a little nervous. I just keep telling myself this is for the children and generations to come in order to better our society as a whole. I think that I have been practicing enough and hopefully all my hard work is received well by the group of people I have coming to my presentation.
Hi Brittany,
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly will the money raised from fund raising be used for? You might search for a grant that would provide the funds you are seeking. Sometimes states have some available, specific groups, literacy for example. Sometimes they are available federally. Google grants that may pertain to what you advocating for. We have found technology grants that helped put cameras for monitoring in the past. You have to be fairly specific.
I think many of us are a little nervous. :) I know I am as well even though I work with most of the group. I like your theory that this is for the children and generations to come. I like that way of thinking. Good luck to you!
Brittany:
ReplyDeleteCould you post some of the advocacy plans that you found to be most helpful to you in developing yours? Have you presented your plan yet? How in depth did you go? What methods of presentation did you use? I am on for Thursday but am second guessing myself in what I have planned.
Diane
Hi Brittany,
ReplyDeleteFundraising can be very tricky especially in today's economy. Everybody is on a tight budget. I would suggest contacting your state's child development division and asking what funds are available. I would also suggest contacting your local family resource center. You could write a grant to get funds. If you collaborate with other organizations, you may have a very strong chance of getting the grant. Also, the school may get Title 1 Funds you could access. This is where having a group of people who have been involved with advocacy will be helpful. You can ask them what they usually do and who usually volunteers for committees in your community.
Best of luck. You can do it! Let me know how it goes.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI am not quite sure what your advocacy plan is but if you are looking for ways to gain more books for young children I can tell you that Scholastic is a great avenue. Our program only completed two orders this year with each order only totaling about $40.00 and we had earned enough bonus points to get 20 free books for each child to have to take home at the end of the school year. Last year we did better and had order about six months out of the nine we are in session. We had 3 books for each child as well as gained about 15 new books for our classroom. There is a great incentive with their program and it is not hard to sign up either. Hope that helps some!
Thank you everyone for your help. I have looked into some of the ideas you have offered to me and they may be put into my plan!
ReplyDeleteBrittany, thank you for the thoughts and ideas you shared and provided me with during our course. You give me a lot of hope that more programs including the one I work for will one day have male teachers on staff as you do. I know they continue to be a blessing to the children and their families. Thanks again and good luck to you!
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