Informative Speech : Special Events

I think company’s look at how popular the event is not only in the present day but also how popular it can become, I also think they look at what percentage of their target market attend those events, and of course they look at how much money can be made at a single event.

Currently the target base is corporate Americans who are searching for a community event or hobby happening in the local area. For the fundraising, the target base is largely captive and patrons will be supportive from family member to coworkers are representing. Many patrons’ vendors will be willing to serve in any capacity and will be able to provide, however, professional services and resources and have the edge in being relatively supportive and satisfying. No other patrons are particularly expected to be present at these events at the capacity as the favorable sponsors who have a drive to serve, however, if there was the presence of another charitable organization serving the same exact purpose it may actually be beneficial in the same way. As for the psychographic make-up of the target base market, a large number of people attending these events are expected to be medium income families

State and local government agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations and institutions are eligible according to the Act

I have extensive experience planning and coordinating events. Currently, I am a Program Committee Chair Member for the African American Alumni Society at the University of San Francisco (USF). As a Chair Member, I am responsible for coordinating special events, most recently, the society 's spring event the Black Alumni Mixer at the San Francisco Press Club. We did not have a theme, but our goal was to encourage alumni to reconnect and to donate at least $10, to the African American USF scholarship fund. The budget for this event was $5,000. This budget included food and the venue to host 50 alumni. My role included finding venues, and sending invitations to alumni. Over 100 alumni attended the Black Alumni Mixer, and we raised over $2,000. Additional duties as Chair include recruiting, engaging and encouraging Alumni to participate in university events as volunteers and attend alumni events.

Two non traditional methods of program funding that the XYZ Corporation can incorporate are fundraising dinners and an annual music festival. Both of these fundraising methods have the potential to raise thousands of dollars for the organization. Planning these events will be time consuming and somewhat costly, the XYZ Corporation will seek to get as much donated materials and volunteer time as possible to keep costs of the fundraising events at a minimum. The dinner will incorporate a cost per plate that is affordable yet will maximize fundraising potential. The music festival will bring publicity and positive attention to the organization as well as maximize fundraising capabilities.

Last year I participated in Dressember. A nationwide project to help raise awareness for human trafficking. Each day of December, participants wear a dress to help spread the word that human trafficking is a prevalent issue in today's society. I would like to host a fundraiser to help raise awareness and donate money to ending modern day slavery. Since we live in such a small town, it's hard to make an impact on the rest of the nation but by doing this project we can help make a difference, starting with our small high school. Another idea I have is to host a competition against sports in each season to raise money to donate to a cause of the teams choosing. By doing this, more people will get involved and each of the teams get to show support for a good cause. There’s so much room for myself and others to grow through being a part of such an amazing student body. Starting with making incoming freshman and students that may not have very many friends feel welcome and appreciated and going all the way to trying to make our world a better

Most of the time we have a small part of the school participating in fundraisers, but when the students create the fundraisers a larger amount of students participate. Now, you don’t want have a boring fundraiser like selling candles, so the SCA creates fundraisers like movie night and penny wars. The penny wars allows the student body and faculty to donate money to a container of their choice. Each container has a college or university on them and the people choose which one they like the most. Next, movie night is fundraiser where we don’t raise money from the movie, but from the food sales. Since we can’t charge someone to watch the movie, we can create a food stand for people to get food

The first fundraiser that I would like to have is a Summer Kickoff event. This would be at the beginning of the term after school has ended and would be either a pool party, bonfire or camp themed that would kickoff this term and the summer! The next fundraiser would be in the middle of the term and could be a Car Wash or a Chocolate Drive. These would be promoted to members in ONR, our family members, friends and more! The last fundraiser of the term would be something new and innovative. I would like to open the planning of these fundraisers to general members. This way the general members would have a first hand experience in the planning and implementation of a fundraiser. It would have to be exclusive yet fair, so with the help of N’siah, I would create an application and through the application process, we would choose a few members to help. I would oversee the entire process and help the members if they need it but the majority of the planning would be in their hands so they can experience the planning of a fundraiser. Another idea for fundraisers that I had would be a Restaurant Fundraiser where I partner with a restaurant and the funds would go to Beresheit.

We raise money that goes towards research for treatments against childhood diseases. My first year I was on the production and marketing committee. We documented important events leading up to the marathon and kept a live stream going through the whole thing as well. My second marathon I joined the hospitality committee. I aided in the search to find local restaurants that would donate food throughout that marathon. The day of the marathon I made sure all the dancers were properly accounted for and received any information they may need. We organized food deliveries and eating times for over 30 different restaurants and 2,000

I have been volunteering at various events to see how people get all excited for certain events. One event, in particular, was my school annual auction. If I remember correctly we had two-hundred and eighty guests come to our school. The end of the auction was one of the most eye-opening times within my teenage life. After eight girls performed a heartwarming poem to the guests, the auctioneer asked who wants to give money towards scholarships for these students. Arms went flying, and I can never forget that moment. I remember looking to my right and see a classmate in tears because not only did the guest donate, but our teachers did. It was then many of us noticed that they truly cared about us. If an auction regarding around the education of students can bring two-hundred and eighty people together, just imagine what can be done for the

"The most obvious form of government aid to the faith based programs is the use of direct grants of public funds"(Pfeffer 163).  The money however is not just handed over to these faith-based charitable organizations.  These faith-based organizations must apply for the

A grant is a sum of money given by an organization for a specific purpose that does not have to be repaid. The purpose of this report is to describe two of the grant data resources. The federal grant reservoir provides a listing of available federal grant money and the qualifications that must be met. Federal grants exist to provide funding for projects that provide public services and stimulate economic growth. Grants are one of the many forms of federal financial assistance and are used to support critical recovery initiatives, research and many other causes. The Foundation Center is another grant data reservoir, but provides listings of private funding. They provide a way to connect people with the resources they need through

A special event is a function that aims to generate money for the community group or not-for-profit which stages it. There are many different types of special events, each with their own different level of complexity and suitability for different groups. Some of the more common types of special events are: Functions (raffles, auctions, etc.), Dinners (formal raffles and auctions), Awards nights, Fetes/fairs, Grand openings/launches (raise awareness and attract publicity), General fundraising events or drives (walkathon, readathon, rideathon, or any other type of -thon). Shialek says “a great way to improve a special event is to give people chances to mingle. Provide them with name tags that display their names, titles, and affiliations clearly.

Corporate giving the contribution of profits to outside entities in the form of charitable gifts is an increasingly important and complex issues in the modern economy, with many organizations and comminutes dependent on such corporate giving yet with the legality and the ethicality of such gift very much in question. The publicly-owned corporation's profits ostensibly belong the that corporations shareholders, and according to some legal opinions this prevents the corporation from gifting these profits in a manner that does not lead to some benefit for the corporation/its shareholders, leaving individual shareholders to decide if and to whom they would wish to donate their profits. It can also be argued, however, that charitable giving is beneficial to the corporation in and of itself as it provides stronger community ties and a compelling brand identity for the corporation and promotes awareness of the company through favorable channels. Seen in this light, the question becomes whether or not a corporation is compelled to spend in the most efficient manner possible or if the spending of profits is fully within their purview as long as some benefit is achieved.

If I had the opportunity of having unlimited funds, I would host events that endorse school spirit, philanthropy, and diversity. Events that resemble these traits would forge a strong Mizzou community with students and alumni. These events would consist of bringing former alumni back for fundraising events such as a pub crawl. Another great idea that would promote philanthropy, competition, and spirit across campus is a 5K walk/run for charity, such as for the American Cancer Society. These events would create a solid Mizzou community and also expand our outreach to others across the world. An event that would promote diversity is a student variety show. Its concept would resemble a talent show and would be held at Jesse Hall. Having students show others their unique talents would promote diversity. The final event I would fund is a campus-wide block party. This event would be held the Friday night of the first home football game and would include a pep rally, food, games, and a concert. This block party would be much larger than the Midnight BBQ and would welcome students of all years. I believe these events would be a good use of money for they will endorse spirit, charity, and diversity.