Guest Speaker

The presenter that I am writing about is Karisa from the Providence Public Library (PPL) and she talked about fundraising for different nonprofit organizations. She shared her knowledge with us by a power point and talking about the different foundation and fundraisers that the library holds. She talked about the adult programs and youth programs that they provide at the PPL. I think after learning about fundraising in class it was helpful to me to see a real life example of a nonprofit funding there programs. She also made a point with the fish activity she did with us as well and how many people in a room know a little about something and when they put their knowledge together they can be a big success. She brought experiences to our class and how she made programs work and she also talked about how the library is also connected to many different organizations. It is just not one Organization that is helping the community it is many and they are working together to provide opportunities all across providence. Having people come in from nonprofits and talk to our class was beneficial to me because seeing real life examples helps me learn. I think her examples and different adult programs was something that stuck out to me and what she taught and how she presented the material was great. The PPL has a lot of programs that help the communities around providence and they can provide these programs because of the fundraising that they do.     

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Against Philanthropy

The central argument of this article is philanthropy and the act of giving money to an organization. They talk about how these big corporations give donations to organizations and they receive tax write offs in return. The example they use is about big businesses and factories are putting pollutants into the environment and they support and donate to organizations that fight pollution. Then the organizations start to support the company that is polluting the environment. At the Boys and Girls Club they receive donations from different companies and donors. They use that money and they put it into things like programing and facility management. The BGC provides helpful and learning programs to the kids and a big part of that is because they receive these donations.The authors of this article think they should get rid of donating money and just stick to making money. I think there is a lot of nonprofit organizations out there that need the donations and run on donations. The work the organizations do are good work and should continue. 

Direct Mail

These letters have many thing in common and when it comes to these letters all of these letters contain pictures and stories to ask for donations. They usually focus on past donors who have supported the cause before and most likely would give again. when sending messages to individuals who have donated money before they would usually donate again. They used stories on how a donations or your donations have had made an impact on what they are supporting. All of these letters had different types of bolded sentences in the letter which made me look at that more and focus on that. The biggest differences are the programs that each letter supported and some gave links to donate right away or it gave set amounts to donate.

Playbox

My playbox was about activism and was fun learning about activism and the different activist groups. There are many curriculum based activties for classrooms and teen centered activities. This is very relevant topic now a days because the teens in parkland are showing youth leader qualities and showing the world what youth led activism could accomplish. My favorite part of the assignment was coming up with the activity and coming up with different ways to present the activity and topic. Working on the activity was great because it made me come up with a activity that was engaging and had a purpose. One of the comments that were made in class was to have an slide with how to form an activist March and the planing behind the movement to change a law or anything else. There was a picture of steps and the things to plan change that I wished I included on the slides and had while the groups were working. The activity was to have groups talk about the topics that meant something to the group and then what plan of action they can implement to make awareness. This activity used the groups members knowledge to come up with the plans or to just talk about what needs to be changed.

Not So Snowy Snow Day Project

HSLI is a six week summer program that is a learning experience for campers and it is serviced all over Rhode Island. During the summer students lose math and literacy skills and while they are in the HSLI program the continue to build and improve those skills. They seem to use a purposeful play activities and they are helping improve student communities in learning and improving their mathe and literacy skills. There are a lot of kids in the program from upper to lower class students and scholarships and financial aids are included for students. This program brings students and teachers together in a non classroom style of learning and teaching. This bond also helps the teachers bring in things they learned in the summer into the classroom during the school year. there are many requirements that have to be met to have the grant approved. There needs to be a show of data and curriculum in the program and professional development among many more requirements that are involved in this program. There are many pluses to this program, like helping lower class students maintain their math and literacy skills during the summer and being offered in many towns in RI. One thing I would change is make it an eight week program and give more time for learning experiences in the summer.

RI Foundation

The foundation was organized in 1916 by the Rhode Island Hospital Trust CO. The first donation was given by Jesse Metcalf who was an industrialist and a senator.Their mission is to meet the needs of the people in RI from a philanthropic level. To me it seems like they get donations from many different resources, like private donors and different funds. One of their donations was from the Frederick B. Wilcox Endowment Fund Gift and that was a gift from Wilcox's family and he gave to the Rhode Island Foundation before as well. They give to communities and nonprofits to promote educational success, healthy living, and many more. The gave over 270,000 dollars in grants to Newport County in 2017. One of the recipients is the Newport County YMCA and their program called Prescribe the Y. Prescribe the Y is a program to help reduce childhood obesity in their community. Prescribe the Y gives kids ages 6 to 16 a physical fitness and nutrition educational program. One question I have is what kind of nonprofit employees reach out to the foundation, like CEO or directors? Another question I have is what is the guideline of funding a community project? I did not find on the website what the qualifications for a community based grant are. 

      

PASA!!

One of the positions is the Executive Director position and in my own words they are responsible for overseeing the whole organizations and all of the sites. They also focus on fundraising for the organization and they also are the head face in the community. One question I would have for PASA's ED is how does she prepare for her meeting with donors and how does basically asks for donations.