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Help For Non Profits, Clubs & Community Groups

There are many ways we can help your organization to succeed...

Events - Planning, Promotions & Facilitation

Facilitation of fundraising events such as concerts, shows and benefits can be overwhelming to volunteers. Proper planning and co-ordination can light the load on those donating their time and efforts to the project. You can avoid draining your supporters by contracting out select jobs while still using volunteers where you can. We can act as your guide in these processes or do the work for you.

Volunteers: Management and Training

Every small town faces the same problem, too many jobs and not enough volunteers. We can help widen your selection by helping you build a volunteer policy and develop training plans for new and future volunteers. How many times has someone said to you, "I'd like to help, but I don't know how"? When you use a volunteer policy, you can monitor the work of your volunteers and when your most active ones are becoming overloaded, you can recognized it and take steps to get them help.

Skills and Needs Assessments

Sometimes there are volunteers with the skills you need, right under your nose. We can evaluate what kinds of skills you need to perform the tasks of your organization and evaluate your volunteers. Often though we may not find about skills you weren't aware of we may reveal volunteers with hidden talents that just need a little training.

Seminars & Training

We offer a wide range of seminars and training, dealing with non-profit management, computers, internet and volunteer training. As well we can arrange formal training with outside professionals on a local, regional or international level. What we cannot provide ourselves we can facilitate for you, and even market the seminar, so you can draw participants outside your organization to help pay the costs.

Grants: Applications, proposal writing

Planning on applying for a grant? To have the best chance at getting grants you need to present a clear description of your project or reason to the funding body. How well you present yourself and how clearly you explain what you plan to do with the funds can be the deciding factor on whether or not your application is approved. You may have been successful with small operating grants, but if you're planning a big project, you may need help. NOTE: Youniek Edge does not solicit funds, grants or other financing on behalf of any organization. Our services are limited to assisting organizations to provide the best possible documentation, in order to apply themselves.

Risk Management

The rules and regulations that govern non profits and charities are rapidly changing. Such organizations can no longer be run like they were 10 or 20 years ago. Attention to liabilities and obligations are key to the continued existence of many groups. Risk Management is a mandatory part of running a successful non-profit and can no longer be overlooked. Let us help you learn how to manage risks for your organization.

Procedures & Policies: Manuals, Planning, Writing & Publishing

Everything an organization has their own way of doing things, however explaining that to new members, volunteers or even newly elected directors can be difficult. Having procedure and policy manuals can make those transition easier and ensure the continuity of your organization. You can build manuals for all types of topics including, duties of your officers, the rights and responsibilities of members and volunteers, procedures for running meetings, and many more topics. It's important to remember that as experienced directors and volunteers, there are many things you may do that you take for granted. By putting policies in writing, you are making it easier for new volunteers to get involved with your organization.

Marketing & Promotions

You may have an event to market or just need to promote your cause, either one requires a plan. Maybe you have a service people aren't fully aware of, or maybe you just want to get more locals and tourists coming to your events. Marketing and promotions is a form of communicating what you have to offer or how your community can help you.

Business Planning

As grants and funding become harder to get, more non profits and charities are taking funding to a commercial level. By operating "related businesses" , non profits can become self sufficient. However, extra care must be taken to plan a business and ensure that it follows the regulations that govern your organization. We can help you research the possibilities and show you how to get your plan into action.

Research: Resources, Funding, Market Opportunities

Researching opportunities is time consuming and many non profits have a tough enough time getting their day-to-day tasks done, let alone finding volunteers to devote hours into looking for learning resources, funding sources or places to market your products or services. Our research services can save you time and money, and still produce beneficial results.

Desktop Publishing

When you need to design and print flyers, posters, show programs and other marketing materials, the costs can get beyond your means. We can help with your publishing needs by evaluating the work you want done and help you find ways to reduce the costs. Our own desktop publishing services are flexible and package discounts are available.

Web Sites: Design & Maintenance

A web site is a powerful tools for non profits and businesses, are you getting the most from yours? Designing new web sites or upgrading and maintaining existing ones is a task that many groups cannot do themselves. We can design user friendly sites as well as provide you with instructions for maintaining your site, or even teach you how to build and publish it yourself.

Internet: Promotions

There's more to the internet than just building a web site. You need to promote your site or your projects through your site. Search engine optimization, back linking and directory listings are just some of the ways to do that... but how do you know which ones are right for you? So many charge fees, you could spend thousands of dollars an never receive a single referral to your site. Knowing where to find sites that do not charge, or charge a small fee but are worth only comes with experience. Promoting your site is part of building it, therefore included when we build one for you.

Free!
One hour on-site consultation

(by appointment, offer valid only in Westman and Parkland regions of Manitoba. Canada)

No obligation!

Youniek Edge will:

Review your ideas or project with you
Provide suggestions to help get you started
Present you with a summary of ways we can help you plan, market and succeed!

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