FUND RAISING STRATEGIES: Know What You’re Selling Produced by David Connell‚ David J. Connell & Associates 1998 FUND RAISING: Know What You’re Selling! FORWARD Fund Raising Strategies: Know What You’re Selling presents fund raising in a new perspective. Many excellent sources on fund raising already exist‚ many of which have been referenced in this document‚ however‚ they only mention that the fund raising environment is more competitive. Too often‚ they fall short of positioning fund raising
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Upon review of all the theories of human development‚ I believe that Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development is much easier to accept and much believable than Freud’s and Piaget’s theories. I believe that not all things in our life are dominated by sexual instincts. I believe that social conflicts and personal dilemmas shape a person on becoming who he is right now. According to Erikson’s theory‚ the personal conflicts that we encounter every day and every stage of our development is our determinant
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Notes on Case “Jim Poss” Jim Poss‚ a second year full-time MBA student at Babson College‚ has a passion for preserving and protecting the environment. He uses a summer internship and Babson courses to search for opportunities and evaluate them. By the final semester he focuses on a solar-powered trash compactor. When he graduates he puts all his efforts into his new venture and soon lands an order from Vail for one of his trash compactors‚ which will be installed in a remote area of the ski resort
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Jim Poss Case Study: Jim Poss Jim Poss is the owner of the Seahorse Power Company; a fresh startup specialized in the green energy based on environment friendly methods of power generating. Unfortunately‚ this choice of cleaner power based industry penalized Jim’s company as a major part of sales is seen lost. Jim accumulated experience and knowledge through many occupied jobs but the significant one was at Solectria‚ a manufacturer of transportation and energy systems. Opportunity follow up:
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The main growth strategy that Jim counted on really was based over the potential upcoming increase in demands for clean and cost cutting energy solutions. The newspaper reminded him that as energy prices will soar. Logistics for cost saving could be the origin of birth of a new and ever growing sector‚ and and that if he got on it early on (as he did)‚ This could prove to be a lucrative idea. BigBelly wasn’t only a device for saving Money. it
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Read the case "Tactus Tackles Fund-Raising" at the end of Chapter 8 and answer the questions that follow: 1. Craig Ciesla and Micah Yairi eventually turned to friends and family for funding. Should they have done that first? What are the risks with raising money from such individuals? Many us have heard don’t borrow money from family or go into business with friends. In the case of Tactus fund-raising‚ they faced many financial obstacles in raising their capital. Craig and Micah did the right
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Collaborative Fund-Raising Activity The Phoenix Homeless Agency (PHA) needs to increase funding to continue funding job counseling to qualifying recipients. While they regularly access traditional contracts and grants‚ the economy has increased the need for services immensely and required them to look for other sources. The Executive Director and Board of Directors have begun their search by using the internet‚ other agencies‚ and community networking. They have decided that there are three options
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Hedge Fund Strategy - Equity Long-Short An equity long-short strategy is an investing strategy‚ used primarily by hedge funds‚ that involves taking long positions in stocks that are expected to increase in value and short positions in stocks that are expected to decrease in value. You may know that taking a long position in a stock simply means buying it: If the stock increases in value‚ you will make money. On the other hand‚ taking a short position in a stock means borrowing a stock you don’t
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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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Industrial Project Management Assignment 1-Group Case Study 2011/11/01 Fund-Raising Gala Dinner I. Project planning 1. Project charter a) Project description Due to the limited funding from both government and donation‚ Gala Dinner event is intended to publicize the new service of Rehabilitation Center which is aimed to provide occupational rehabilitation and training for disabled person‚ and to raise 2.5M HK$ for this Non-government Organization to sustain its new program.
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