If you are looking for more recognition for your charity or organization you may want to look into a program by Phoenix TV Station Channel 12 and their 12 Who Care program.
Nominate an agency today for the 12 Who Care award! You can click on their web site to let them know about a deserving agency!
For more than 20 years, Channel 12 has supported volunteerism through the 12 Who Care volunteer recognition program.
Each month a different non-profit group doing extraordinary work in the Phoenix Metro-area is honored, encouraging others to volunteer to further their mission.
The following Awards are given out:
• One agency a month will be selected as a 12 Who Care honoree.
• The agency will receive a $1,200 donation.
• The agency will be featured on Arizona Midday, 12 News and azcentral.com.
• A 30 second promotional spot based on the agency's story and volunteer information will air on Channel 12.
• The agency will be hosted at a luncheon at Channel 12.
If this sounds like something that would benefit your group visit their web site and get the process started for your fundraising or volunteer group.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/12whocare/
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What follows is a short list of fundraising ideas that are great place for children to start learning about fundraising. These are ideas that children from about eight and up can get involved in through a local sports team or school functions.
Ice Cream Social. We all know the very famous and old saying, "I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream!" Here in the southwest it is already time to start thinking of great ways to cool off. Kids can dish out the ice cream and the toppings and help with the cleanup from this frosty and delicious fundraising event.
Car Washes are great spring and summer time fundraisers. A bucket of soapy water, a sponge and a hose is all that kids need to host a charity car wash. Have the kids make signs detailing which charity they are doing the car wash for, in order to maximize donations. Many stores will give up part of their parking lots and even supply the water for your fundraiser. Just ask!
Hold a Bake Sale at your church or school. Gather your group together to make and sell baked goods. If possible ask your church for permission to sell after your services.
Mix a hot summer day, some lemons, sugar and ice, what do you have? A Lemonade Stand. They are a great way for kids to raise money for your group or charity. Selling can teach your group the basics of small business as well. They can learn about the laws of supply and demand, they can even determine profit margins, these are life lessons that will stay with them forever.
Believe it or not, both boys and girls love Face Painting. A face painting booth is a fun and easy fundraising idea for older youth. Set-up a booth at a local festival or carnival and be sure have good signs that can tell your charity's needs and goals.
Go ahead and think green! Think Recycling! Kids can raise money and be environmentally responsible at the same time. Children can collect cans, newspapers or cardboard at home, as well as set up recycling bins at their parents’ workplaces, and bring them to their local recycler.
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It's a pretty common mistake to think of volunteering as just something nice that people can do. Sure, it may make them feel great about helping, but what impact does it really have?
Getting things done
Volunteers have an enormous impact on the health and well-being of communities worldwide. Think of all the ways that volunteers make a difference in day-to-day life:
Volunteers deliver critical services - from serving as volunteer fire fighters or participating in search and rescue, to delivering meals to homebound seniors or homeless youth, to manning the phone lines at domestic violence and sexual assault centers.
Volunteers help to keep our neighborhoods, streets, parks, rivers, green spaces, and water clean and safe for everyone.
Volunteers tutor, teach, mentor, coach, and support young people with everything from math homework to dealing with personal crises to football and soccer tourneys.
Volunteers walk dogs, pet cats, clean cages, help with adoptions and feedings, and contribute veterinary expertise to organizations like animal shelters and wildlife rehabilitation centers.
Volunteers educate the public on health and safety; doctors and nurses donate time and medical knowledge to free clinics and natural/civil disaster areas worldwide.
Volunteers take tickets at film centers and performing arts events, lead tours at museums and historical societies, and ensure that arts and cultural festivals—from small-scale gatherings to massive multi-stage concerts - run smoothly.
Volunteers build houses and schools, dig wells, and repair infrastructure around the globe.
You get the idea…
By the numbers
Another way to measure the impact of volunteers is to take a look at statistics like hours served and the economic value of volunteer time.
According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 61.8 million individuals in the United States contributed 8 billion hours of volunteerism in 2008 alone.
The economic value of all this volunteering? $162 billion U.S. dollars.
Volunteers are critical partners of and participants in societies throughout the world. Whether actively giving their time through a formal or ad hoc organizations, or taking part in what is sometimes called "informal volunteering" where citizens voluntarily participate in community activities or provide personal care for family, friends, neighbors, or even strangers as part of accepted cultural norms of giving and reciprocity.
The impact of no volunteers
Finally, here's one more way to visualize the impact of volunteers. Try this little exercise: imagine if one day, all volunteers simply didn't show up.
What would our cities, towns, state/provincial parks, schools, places of worship, and libraries look like? What basic needs would go unmet? What opportunities to grow, learn, and thrive as a society would be lost? The truth is you likely cross paths with a volunteer at least once if not several times a day, no matter where you are in the world.
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Recognition is one of the most important parts of working with volunteers. There are many ways to recognize your volunteerss. Here are a few suggestions.
Hold potlucks at the office and invite volunteers to make them feel like part of the team. Ask the volunteers to bring a big appetite.
Send your volunteers a favor such as a paper fan with a note, "Thank your for all of the FAN-tastic help".
Display a tree with the volunteers names and photos in the lobby or another prominet place.
If your organization is large enough and can afford a little more do something like rent a theather for an afternoon at the movies. Start by giving out awards and special recognitions.
Treat your volunteers as part of the staff .Distribute copies of appropriate memos, include volunteers in meetings and trainings when you can, and make sure each is informed of new policies, procedures, or activities in the organization.
Write a brief "Thank You" card telling them how much you appreciated their help on a project they were working on.
Many of our volunteers have full time jobs and busy careers or are students. Send letters of recognition to their places of work either directly to their superior or through the Human Resources office or school administrators.
Recognition doesn't have to be expensive. It does have to be sincere.
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When we think of fundraisers we think about soliciting our friends, family and co-workers to raise funds through walk-a-thons, cake raffles and similar homespun.
There are social media sites that will help you do just that. Here are the Top Three.
ChipIn: The easy way to collect money
ChipIn is the most popular widget used by fundraisers today for distributed fundraising. It’s a simple tool you can place on your website or on a Facebook profile page. It amounts to a donate button that comes with a thermometer that measures the campaign’s progress. If you don’t have a site, you can subscribe to ChipIn and they’ll host your campaign for free. Subscribing to ChipIn is free, but you’ll need to set up a PayPal account to process donations. Every monetary contribution made through ChipIn is charged at a rate beginning at 2.5 percent of the amount donated.
GlobalGiving: Donate to grassroots projects
GlobalGiving is an online marketplace for philanthropy where anyone can post an idea and get it funded. The nonprofit connects donors with community-based projects that need support in the United States and abroad. You select the projects you want to support, make a tax-deductible contribution and get regular progress updates — so you can see your impact. The organization sustains itself with a 15 percent optional fee you can add so that 100 percent of your donation goes directly to the project.
Change.org: Empowering people to take action
ChangingThePresent: Make the world a better place ChangingThePresent is a nonprofit that connects you with more than 1,500 meaningful if nontraditional charitable gifts — for instance, “stop global warming for $20″ or “adopt a tiger for $40.” Browse by cause or nonprofit to find a gift for friends or for your own charitable giving. The service also encourages donors to make simple donations of any amount through their home pages. A premium profile costs $100 per year. Donation processing fee: 3 percent of each donation plus 30 cents.
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