Helping Nonprofits Address Organizational Issues Through Effective Communications and Volunteer Development
This project represents a marriage between two ideas which we’ve developed as core business directions over the years. Recently, we were led to apply these directions together in service to a local nonprofit. This experience demonstrates the validity of the marriage and its replicability. We’re reaching out to offer this service to local nonprofits.
BizWorks Studio – We help nonprofit organizations increase capacity and sustainability through volunteer projects.
The Computer Spirit – We help nonprofit organizations reach out to volunteers, donors, and clients through coordinated communications.
Together – We help nonprofit organizations develop sustainable volunteer-staff teams that reach out to their community in support of their mission.
Our idea:
We work toward the complete in-house control of websites, e-newsletters, and other forms of communication by volunteers and staff – putting the organization in control of communication with their communities in real time.
We espouse the use of a website as the hub and portal for all organizational activities, and the use of e-newsletters as a primary way to stay in touch with expanding and deepening relationships with volunteers, donors, clients, and the community at large.
We believe every volunteer opportunity must make a difference, must be fun, and must serve to further relationships that benefit individuals and the organization. We believe managing communication is no exception.
Our process is to help organizations identify needs and opportunities, processes and resources, and to shepherd the volunteers and staff who will manage communications as they create customized communication tools.
Our next step is to provide a workshop to local nonprofits which brings forth the needs and opportunities related to communicating with their communities. In this two-hour workshop, which we propose to offer at no charge, we will leave plenty of time for exploring together the nature of the challenges attendees face as well as possible solutions. We plan to present our service as one possible solution and to respond as best we can to whatever opportunities arise for all of us participating in each workshop.
