NAM JAM Las Vegas©
To all VVA 17 /
AVVA Members / Friends
2012
As NAM JAM Las Vegas Chairman 2012, I want to say thank you for the
opportunity and the trust your have placed in me.
NAM
JAM Las
Vegas for our chapter is an important source of funding that we generate each
year. Due to less or almost no funding from contributors, the burden has been
placed on us to fend for ourselves.
The
purpose of a fund raiser, is for VVA 17, a IRC Section 501c (19) organization,
to generate as much money as possible. We are a Fraternal Organization where
the proceeds benefit the chapter, which in turn may distribute them as the
chapter sees fit. For example, profits may be disbursed to the chapter’s
general fund in order to promote social welfare of the community (that is, to
promote in some way, the common good and general welfare of the people of the
community) and to follow the guidelines listed below:
1. To assist disabled and needy war
veterans and members of the United States Armed Forces, their dependents and
the widows and orphans of deceased Veterans.
2. To provide entertainment, care, and
assistance to hospitalized veterans or members of the United States Armed
Forces.
3. To carry on programs to perpetuate the
memory of deceased veterans, our unaccountable POW’s and members of the United
States Armed Forces.
4. To conduct programs for religious,
charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes.
5. To sponsor or participate in activities
of a Patriotic nature.
6. To provide social and recreational
activities for our members and their families.
This
is what our VVA Chapter is all about: Veterans taking care of Veterans.
Non-Profit
fundraising is all about multiple sources of income, so how do we make money
for our chapter?? Simple put, when we review our annual NAM JAM Las Vegas Battle Plan together, we need to include as many
ways to raise money as possible. Well, you are probably thinking: “That is easy
for me to say, but how exactly do we go about it?” EASY! We have to be “smart”
about it, with a well thought out plan that doesn’t make too many demands on
any one facet of our NAM
JAM Las
Vegas committee.
All
fund-raisers place demands on volunteers, our supporters, and leadership. These
demands can be time consuming, expensive, and stressful. The more large scale
fund-raisers we conduct in one year’s time, the greater the load we place on
people you depend on. We need to be “smart” in how we go about our fundraising.
I have four steps that will make our job easier. First, we must think smart,
plan smart, work smart and lastly, be smart.
THINK SMART!
Thinking
smart means taking the time to review past results and analyze on how to
improve on NAMJAM Las Vegas 2012. If we don’t spend some time brainstorming
some new and creative ideas to increase our bottom line, how are we going to
rise above last year’s results?
PLAN SMART!
Planning
smart means taking concrete action to put our ideas into a NAMJAM Las Vegas battle plan (plan of action, OPS ORDER). YEP,
I did say “plan.”
No
self-respecting, non-profit fund raiser organization should be without a
written plan to guide our fundraising efforts.
Our
plan should spell out roles and goals with detailed instruction on how we will
get there. It should be grounded in the past and targeted at the future. Each
non-profit fundraising activity should be broken down into the necessary action
steps that will produce the highest level of results with the most
cost-effective effort. All committee members must know exactly what will be
expected of them. A well organized team must understand their function(s) in
order to be able to execute their mission flawlessly.
WORK SMART!
Working
smart means taking our plan and putting it into action with an eye towards
getting the most bottom line results from all of our efforts. We can get best
long term results if we stay focused on not overburdening our volunteers, our
supporters and the leadership. Overworking volunteers will ensure that many
will not be around next year. It is important that we keep everyone fresh and motivated;
let’s do that by having a well thought out plan that maximizes the value of
everyone’s time, energy, and contributions.
BE SMART!
Being
smart means taking the time NOW to begin a “Get Smart” effort about our
non-profit fundraising course of action. We begin by setting a date, set-up a
budget, location, get all necessary paperwork, involve other organizations,
plan for publicity (contact local press and radio) obtain funding (if possible)
etc.…then follow-up, follow-up and follow-up some more! Fundraising events have
one drawback - they take time. We need to build activities around people who
want to do them and have the necessary skills and support to help organize a
successful event.
A good idea + good organization +
hard work = SUCCESS
This
may be a lot of useful or useless information, but I believe in keeping all the
troops informed. Remember: there is no such thing as a dumb question or idea,
only the dumb or no response you get.
“SIN GANAS, NO GANAS”
Our arrows will
darken the skies – the Spartan response was “than we should do battle in the
shade”
Robert Serge
Robert
Serge
NAM
JAM Las
Vegas 2012 Chairman
E-mail:
rserge@live.com
Cell:
702-715-0558
Any SUGGESTIONS i could use some help
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