PROVIDING VALUE TO YOUR ORGANIZATION: How to balance being a one person shop for communications and development.

Raising awareness and raising funding are often tasks that go hand-in-hand for non-profits.

This informative session will be full of strategies for managing grants, events, donor databases, thank you letters, mailing campaigns, marketing, public relations, web sites and social networking without losing efficiency. You’ll also get tips and resources on getting more media exposure and taking advantage of free and discounted services.




In these days of doing more with less, this discussion is a must for all of us in these tough economic times.



Panelists:

Marisol Barrios
Director of Communications and Advocacy
Hillsides
Hillsides has always created safe places for children; strengthened families, provided special education; and advocated for children’s rights. From its inception in 1913 as an Episcopal Orphanage, The Church Home for Children, until its present-day status as a private, nonprofit foster care and treatment center, Hillsides has never wavered from its commitment to creating a safe place for children. Although it began as an orphanage, Hillsides now works to end the cycle of child abuse that destroys children and tears families apart. Loving care, therapeutic healing, special education, family crisis intervention and children's rights advocacy are at the heart of the agency's mission. These priorities were created by the vision of Deaconess Evelyn Wile. At Hillsides, children suffering from abuse and mental illness can still find a "safe place" to call home. Today, the children’s charity located in Pasadena is considered an official institution of the Los Angeles Diocese of the Episcopal Church.


Genevieve Riutort
Director of Development
Westside Food Bank
Westside Food Bank is an independent, non-governmental, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation founded twenty seven years ago, which provides food to social service agencies on the Westside of Los Angeles County. Our food often enables low-income people to stay in their homes, deterring the problem of homelessness, because it saves them from having to make the agonizing choice between paying for rent or food when they can’t afford both. Receiving our food also enables our 65 member-agencies to devote more of their own resources to other ways of helping clients achieve self respect and economic independence.

Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Time: 8:30 a.m. Check-in, networking and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Program

Location: Taix Restaurant
1911 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
[One Block East of Alvarado]

Cost:
*MEMBERS - Breakfast Meeting
$17.00 - Click here to pay now

*NON-MEMBERS - Breakfast Meeting
$22.00 - Click here to pay now

Reserve by Friday, March 5th - 12 noon to 1-800-PLANK(15) or via e-mail to Yvonne Voisin at voisincom@aol.com

If you reserve and fail to attend, you will be billed. You can pay ahead of the meeting on-line via PayPal at piratesla.org or pay with cash or check at the door. We can not take credit cards at the door. If you are bringing cash, exact change is helpful! Thanks!