Welcome New Community Services Fund Member Agency
People's Health Center
for the 2010 Campaign.
People's Health Center (PHC) is Lincoln's
only Community Health Center.
The mission is to provide affordable, comprehensive, accessible, culturally
appropriate, cost-effective primary health care. PHC serves those individuals
and families with limited resources or with other barriers to healthcare to
improve their overall health status. PHC was established in 2002 through
the dedicated efforts of community members who formed a steering committee to
seek funding to provide medical and dental services to the medically uninsured
and underinsured in the Lincoln
area. The doors opened to patients on September 30, 2003.
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Community Services Fund Proud to Announce New Leadership for 2010
Abbigail
Swatsworth has been elected President of the Board of Directors for
Community Services Fund and began her two year term on February 18. Swatsworth
is Director of
Development at CenterPointe. She has also served as Vice President and
Campaign Chair for CSF. Other volunteer
activities include Rotary Club #14, American Marketing Association, and
Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Other officers elected for 2010-2011 include Vice President,
Casey Karges; Secretary, Kiley Thiele; and
Treasurer, Joline Adams.
Karges
serves as Executive Director of The Mediation Center, and was most recently the
Secretary for the CSF board. His other volunteer
experiences include Office of Dispute Resolution (Nebraska Supreme
Court) Advisory Committee, Nebraska Mediation Center Association Officer, and Approved
Parent Education Class Teacher.
Thiele is currently Vice President
of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Nebraska. Thiele has been the past Marketing
Committee chair for CSF, and also volunteers for the American Marketing
Association as the VP of Programming.
Adams is an independent consultant in
Accounting & Banking, and Vice President and Director for Farmers State Bank,
Ewing, Nebraska. Her additional volunteer experience includes: Treasurer of
Friends of Beta Alpha of Alpha Gamma Delta Educational Foundation, Lincoln
Friends of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Leadership Team, and Nebraska
Wesleyan University Alumni Executive Council, Secretary.
Community Services Fund is a federation of 30 non-profit
organizations that come together to offer increased donor choice in workplace
giving campaigns. Community Services Fund utilizes a completely donor-directed
system that encourages donors to designate to the agency(ies) they choose.
Additional information and a complete listing of the member agencies is
available online at: www.communityservicesfund.org.
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National Research Corporation Shares Secrets to their 2009 Campaign Success
In the 2009 Campaign, NRC needed to shake things up! One of the members of their Campaign Committee recently helped Community Services Fund to recap the secrets to their success. The one-page case study starts below and the conclusion to this article can be found at our website!
Review, Revamp and Revitalize: How National
Research Corporation Doubled Associate Giving and Participation in
One Year A Case Study:
In spring 2009, the annual
associate giving campaign at National Research Corporation (NRC) was in a lack
luster place. Associate giving was flat,
participation was declining and the associate giving committee was facing
turnover and burnout. Saying the outlook
was bleak would be an understatement. We
knew that we needed to change the way we conducted our campaign to both
increase associate awareness and participation and also decrease the amount of
time required to run the campaign.
The Power of an Idea
An
associate with no official ties to the campaign committee had a great
idea. He had seen a political video /
advertisement on YouTube the year prior focusing on the importance of
voting. It used sarcasm and reverse
psychology to convince everyday Americans that they must vote. His idea was to create a video featuring NRC
associates......
Click here to read the rest of this case study on our Community Services Fund Website.
Thank you NRC for allowing us to be a part of this special campaign!
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