360 Degrees
360 Degree Not for Profit Training Day - Wellington 25th March
360 Degree is the best way to learn more about effective fundraising or to upskill. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to have a full days training for only $50, register now!
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360 degree Training Day 25 March 2010 Timetable and Speakers
Time 9am to 5pm
Registrations from 8.30am
Workshops are 80 minutes long
Plenary9am to 9.20am
Workshops 9.20 to 10.40am
Morning tea 10.40am to 11am
Workshops 11am to 12.20pm
Lunch 12.20pm to 1.20am
Workshops 1.20pm to 2.40pm
Afternoon tea 2.40pm to 3pm
Workshops 3pm to 4.20pm
Plenary – evaluation 4.20pm to 5pm
Networking social hour 5pm to 6pm
Programme of events
1. Targeted Communications
New Zealand Post
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
Whilst donors are vital to any fundraising organisation, successfully attracting and maintaining them can be a complex task. Using direct marketing (including direct mail) to do so has been consistently proven as a cost-effective channel, and the Targeted Communications team at New Zealand Post have experts to guide you through the process. Come and learn how direct marketing can help increase your return on investment and build strong relationships with existing donors as well as reach new ones.
2. Recruiting and empowering volunteers
A rep from Volunteer Wellington
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
Discover the joys of voluntary work for your cause and within the community. This workshop will show you how to recruit, involve and supervise volunteers as well as ways of providing recognition. It will help you differentiate voluntary work from other forms of work.
3. Selling your cause to the public
Fraser Carson – FRESCO
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
Telling your story is a key part of your fundraising plan. In this workshop Fraser will explain how to prepare a fundraising campaign and use modern technology to promote your profile and issues.
Fraser is an owner and director of FRESCO - the first Wellington based specialist public affairs advertising agency. He provides clients with marketing and communications strategy planning and advice, and takes overall management responsibility for FRESCO particularly for client service and the creative teams. FRESCO also runs Wotzon.com Wellington, and Issues.co.nz, New Zealand’s first issues based website with platforms for campaigning purposes, including fundraising.
4. Fundraising for capital campaigns and major gift programmes
Clive Pedley - Xponential philanthropy
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
Are you ready for a capital or major gift campaign? Come and hear from one of the industry leaders in both the science of fundraising and the art of preparation. Clive Pedley, Managing Director of Xponential Philanthropy provides professional fundraising services to the not-for-profit sector across New Zealand. Xponential are regarded as industry leaders in capital campaigns and major gift programmes. This workshop will be interactive and include a simple questionnaire on how you can check on your capital campaign readiness.
5. Funders & sector leaders workshop
Sandy Brinsdon – Talent Finders
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
This workshop is aimed at sector leaders that oversee not-for-profit (NfPs) boards and agencies that fund NfPs, especially those NfP boards where sound governance is or should be crucial. The funders interaction between, management and boards is often a complex one. This workshop will empower you to clarify and “sponsor” sound governance arrangements.
• Clarity of the boards role versus CEO’s
• How to assess if an organisation has effective governance
• Appropriate funder relationships across the organisation
• How funders can assist (or create problems for) organisations
Sandy Brinsdon is a Director of Talent Finders Ltd, a leading specialist in policy governance in New Zealand. Sandy is an active member of the Institute of Directors, sits on a number of Not-For-Profit Boards and has held senior roles in the health sector.
6. Preparing the perfect annual fundraising communications plan
Fiona Paterson - Pareto Fundraising
9.20am and repeated at 1.20pm
How can you reach your fundraising targets, find new supporters and transform your donors to regular monthly givers by mail and telephone? Fiona Paterson, Fundraising Strategy Director from Pareto Fundraising will run a scintillating workshop on how you can dramatically increase your income by analysing your current activity and supporter data, then using what we learn to create and target highly personalised fundraising communications.
7. Fundraising prospect research
Louise Parkin - Saints Information
11am and repeated at 3pm
You are a charity in need of funds. Where do you start to find prospective donors and once found how can you prepare your winning case for support. Louise Parkin, founder of Saints Information, will show you how to prospect for new donors – both individual and organisational - and what research tools are available for you to achieve that.
8. Using online social media
Nigel Sanderson- FundraiseOnline
11am and repeated at 3pm
How are you and you organisation connecting to your customers, supporters and the wider community? What to use – Facebook? Twitter? BeBo? YouTube? And when? If you want to understand what this means and how you should be working with the rise and rise of Social Media, you need to move now. Nigel Sanderson, Managing Director of FundraiseOnline will share with you the things you need to know, what you need to do, and the traps to avoid, as you head into the Social Media driven future.
FundraiseOnline has been providing internet based fundraising solutions to charities and corporate customers around the world since 2004.
9. Planning special events
Sue Lewis-O’Halloran, Dress For Success
11am and repeated at 3pm
How to make special events work and provide an economic return for the effort put in. Sue Lewis-O'Halloran is the Regional Director of New Zealand & Australia, Dress for Success Worldwide. Sue came to New Zealand from Canada in 2007 after 20 years working in the not-for-profit sector including running many successful major events. Sue is an experienced and motivational speaker and workshop presenter in New Zealand, Canada and the US.
10. Effective database management
Matthew Lumsdaine - Blackbaud Pacific
11am and repeated at 3pm
How to manage your donor base? Matthew Lumsdaine from Blackbaud Pacific Pty Ltd will lead a discussion on how best to manage your donors. This promises to be thought provoking and interesting workshop allowing you to compare your current donor management system with one of the best.
Blackbaud have been working exclusively for Not for profits since 1981. Matt has considerable experience in donor management at both web and software levels.
11. Governance vs. management
Cam Brinsdon - Talent Finders
11am and repeated at 3pm
This workshop is aimed at managers, board and committee members to help effectively establish clear governance and management roles. Using policy governance training developed by Dr John Carver, Cam Brinsdon will lead a discussion on how board members need to focus on strategic leadership and accountability rather than operational detail.
Cam Brinsdon is a Director of Talent Finders Ltd, who are a leading specialist in policy governance having mentored over 100 agencies in New Zealand. Cam sits on a not-for-profit board, as well as having some commercial interests and is an Associate Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand.
12. A Funder’s perspective - A panel
11am and repeated at 3pm
How do you keep your major funders happy and involved? Three experienced funders from philanthropic trusts and the corporate world will discuss what they are looking for in funding and in accountability. This discussion will outline what is available in funding opportunities in Wellington and what they look for in opportunities.
Grant Chellow - Kalamzoo Wyatt & Wilson Print
Adrienne Bushnell - Nikau Foundation
Tony Gill - New Zealand Community Trust