Money For Nothing Making Money With Volunteers

By Carrie Cook

This book was put together in the sincere hope that is will be of benefit to volunteers and volunteer programs everywhere. Since this could be considered a “how to” book, the author’s personality has not been edited out of the text. This author, additionally, has tried to make sure that she reminds readers that new, politically correct terms for items and organizations do not change what they are, fundamentally. There are very few conventions in this book. Chiefly, both men and women may be included under the term “he”. Additionally, all of the suggestions in this book should work well with individual projects, full programs, etc. While a person desiring information can benefit from this text, it is written primarily with groups (society, organization, chapter, division, etc.) in mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gregath Company, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466155947

Carrie Cook

Carrie Ann Cook is a published author, illustrator and free-lance photographer. She holds an AA and BS in Elementary Education. Having certified for teaching in several states, she has taught elementary grades as well as genealogy, writing and computer classes at the Northeast Technology Center, Afton, Oklahoma. She has also served the Miami (Oklahoma) Public Library as Genealogy and Local History Specialist. Currently, she is the owner of Gregath Company, Inc. and Webmaster of assorted sites. Carrie has been active in various genealogy, speaking and history organizations (including service and lineal) throughout the years. She served the Oklahoma Division UDC for the 2008-2010 administration as state Historian as well as currently holding several assorted chapter offices in other organizations. At the age of 40, she has been public speaking on genealogical, historical and writing/publishing topics for nearly two decades. A life long learner, she enjoys new insights offered while attending educational opportunities such as Historical Preservation Conferences, NIGR, and recently, the National Land and Genealogical Record Symposium, Beatrice, Nebraska, 2011.

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Money for Nothing:

Making Money with Volunteers

Carrie Ann Cook

Copyright 2007 Carrie Ann Cook

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Preface

This book was put together in the sincere hope that is will be of benefit to volunteers and volunteer programs everywhere. Since this could be considered a how to book, the author’s personality has not been edited out of the text. This author, additionally, has tried to make sure that she reminds readers that new, politically correct terms for items and organizations do not change what they are, fundamentally. This book strives to be straightforward.

There are very few conventions in this book. Chiefly, both men and women may be included under the term he. Additionally, all of the suggestions in this book should work well with individual projects, full programs, etc. While a person desiring information can benefit from this text, it is written primarily with groups (society, organization, chapter, division, etc.) in mind.

Table of Contents

Preface

Table of Contents

Part 1 – The Basics

In The Beginning….

Identifying Roadblocks to Conquer

Evaluate to Improve

We Shall Overcome

A Healthy Volunteer Program

Part 2 – Making That Money

Publish or Perish

Internal Newsletters and Periodicals

External Periodicals

Research Aid Publications

Extraction/Transcription Books

History Books

Graphic Design

Websites

Make fund raising with volunteers an event!

Requests for underwriting or sponsoring

Whose Grant…and How Much Money Does He Have For Us?

Volunteers – Your Goodwill Ambassadors

Drive to Success

Successful Fundraising Has Successful Promotion

In the End

Part 1 - The Basics

In The Beginning…

Are you:

starting volunteer programs

taking over long established ones or

resurrecting one from the dead?

If so, this book was written to contain vital information for you. Though the three different types of volunteer chairs above are quite different at a glance, successful ones should all have the same knowledge base. This book should be read from cover to cover by all who are interested. Even if a section doesn’t seem to apply to you at first, it might be surprising what you can learn, what ideas it will spark, or what vital