Archive for the ‘Charities’ Category

Getting there

The Rotary Club Vancouver Sunrise came back and let us know they like the new contract and hopefully we get the signed agreement in a few days.  We are just now getting the logo for the card… 3 weeks lead time.
Speaking of the cards… tested it out for myself and it all went smoothly.. card [...]

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Busy day 1 – things looking up

Busy day to day.
Craig and I presented to make a short list for an Angel conference.   Lets hope we were good enough. Got another introduction to a charity from one of the judges above… maybe they like what we do? Heard from one of the judges that one of our school targets does not like [...]

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Friendly help from lawyers

It has been great that people have been so supportive and going further introducing their favourite charities (& contacts)  to us. I met Scott Dunlop a lawyer from Davis LLP who works with BootUpLabs, one of our partners.  He was very kind to make introductions to three charities that really fit.  We [...]

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Charities: Collect those Email Addresses

We have been talking to a few charities and they keep coming back to us and saying they do not have much of a email list, further few are communicating in any regular way and when they do they do it is thru the post.  This appears to be a very expensive and missed opportunity.
In [...]

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Growing the market for charitable contributions

I was having a discussion with some people from a charity organisation about the shape of the charity market and how there is a limited amount of funds for charitable contributions. This market was constrained as it was suggested that 25% of the population donates; it sounds right. As a result there was a [...]

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