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Campaign Consultation to join delegation in China
Linda Brown Rivelis, President of Campaign Consultation, Inc., has been invited to join the People to People Fundraising Delegation to China. The delegation’s purpose is to provide information and facilitate discussion in support of volunteerism and philanthropy.
Over the course of 10 days, the delegation will participate in presentations and discussions in Hong Kong and Beijing. Ms. Brown Rivelis states – “The timing of this visit is especially significant given the unprecedented outpouring of volunteer and financial support from individual Chinese citizens to survivors of the earthquake.”
Community Parade … Builds Community
The most successful and sustainable community development campaigns are linked to five strategic factors, know as the Five Cs: Community, Connections, Control, Cash, and Collective Action. These factors are based on an examination of 150 years of research and field experience.
Putting research to action, Campaign Consultation CEO Steven Rivelis organized the first Charles Village Parade, in the Baltimore City neighborhood where he works and lives. The goal of the parade was to help generate a sense of community and forge deeper connections within the community, two of the key five strategic factors.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this award winning parade includes youth marching bands, art cars from as far away as Texas, FiFi the 50 foot tall pink poodle, a wide array of diverse community groups, and village noise makers.
Delighting the morning crowd that will gather along St. Paul and Charles Streets on May 31, the Charles Village Parade is sure to once again be the highlight of the Charles Village Festival, held annually on the first weekend in June.
Come see the parade for yourself! Click below to watch a short video celebrating the diversity of this unique and thriving community.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:
SUSTAINING COMMUNITY-BASED CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGIES
Steven Rivelis, Campaign Consultation's
CEO, presents keynote at DOJ's national conference, in Portland Oregon.
He outlined the key Strategic Factors for Building
Community and Sustaining the Initiative ... a social change model known
as the "Five Cs." The most successful and sustainable community
change campaigns are linked to these five factors: [sense of Community,
Connections, Control, Cash [and other resources], and Collective action.]
Attendance reached close to 700 representatives from community-based organizations,
city/county governments, law enforcement agencies, U.S. Attorney Offices,
Weed and Seed programs, and Tribal communities, from across the country.
The goal of the national conference was to build effective public/private
partnerships, strengthen neighborhoods, build community capacity, and
increase community safety.
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NEW SERVICE FROM CAMPAIGN CONSULTATION, INC…LLIFE
LIVING LEGACY INITIATIVE FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Different from non-profits, foundations, and other 501(c)(3) organizations, LLIFE translates engaged business interest into personal philanthropic purpose.
Based upon your responses in the LLIFE GPS (Global Philanthropic Setting) Guidebook – LLIFE is ready to help you apply your entrepreneurial skills, used in your business, to invest in social, educational and cultural change initiatives at home or abroad.
LLIFE is a division of Campaign Consultation which meshes nicely with the company’s function of “Entrepreneurs for Social Change.” Recognized as one of the top 100 Inner City Companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, Campaign Consultation – through the LLIFE – puts your legacy plans first, before any charitable organization or cause.
With you as the primary customer, LLIFE provides you with the knowledge and support for your strategic humanitarian decision-making. Legacy consultation includes rigorous research, creative response ideas and out-of-the-box action to achieve your living legacy outcomes for communities and people in need locally, nationally and worldwide.
Your LLIFE consultant helps you reach your legacy goals through the systematic analysis of a cause’s mission, its capacity in human capital, past track record, ROI, etc. You can use any one or all of LLIFE services, such as …
- Identify legacy interests by completing the © LLIFE guidebook
- Select legacy options based upon LLIFE in-depth research of prospective grantees / initiatives
- Establish your own Family Foundation or issue-specific non-profit organization
- Close the deal by asking LLIFE to assist with gift negotiation, interface with tax/legal professionals, etc.
- Other tailored services
For more information on how LLIFE can help you establish your living legacy through creative philanthropy, contact:
Linda Brown Rivelis, CRFE, Presiednt
c/o LLIFE
Campaign Consultation, Inc.
2819 Saint Paul Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4312
LBRivelis@CampaignConsultation.com
410.243.7979 x 10
P.S. Also, in addition to helping individual entrepreneurs determine their legacy heading, some companies consider LLIFE another service for their Human Resources divisions.
OHIO COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL –
GIZMOs and YOUR ORGANZIATION
The Ohio Community Service Council asked Campaign Consultation, Inc. to create and conduct a session on “GIZMOs and Your Organization” for Ohio AmeriCorps Staff Members in November 2007. GIZMOs (Giving Information for Zooming Money Objectives) have been developed by Campaign Consultation, Inc. – for the CNCS SustainAbility Initiative and the CNCS Resource and Fund Development Initiative – as a comprehensive set of individual learning tools created for CNCS grantees, sponsor organization and others to raise critical resources. During this session, participants were introduced to the catalogue of GIZMOs and have “hands on” opportunities to work with them and learn how to use them as resources for your staff and volunteers.
The session presents baseline information on:
- Articulating the fundraising priorities for participants’ organizations
- Identifying the value of volunteer champions in fundraising
- Employing a series of learning tools to engage fundraising champions for participants’ organizations
ARABBER + CITY YOUTH + BALTIMORE = WIN. WIN. WIN. CAMPAIGN
Every 10 years or so, Baltimore runs the risk of loosing a chunk of its heritage – the Arabber.
Baltimore Arabbers represent generations of vendors, whose fruit and vegetables are made available to people in neighborhoods throughout the city. Arabbers use horses and brightly painted wagons to distribute their produce and – much like the ice cream truck – attract people out of their houses to the street by calling their unique greeting. Residents respond by purchasing nourishment curbside that they may otherwise not be able to access.
Recently, the Arabbers’ stable was condemned causing their business to be interrupted and the Arabbers’ livelihoods to be stymied. In order to stop this erosion of one of Baltimore’s great heritages, Campaign Consultation launched a campaign to link the Arabbers and their professional skills with Baltimore City Youth.
The benefit to City Youth is the ability to receive technical assistance and a working knowledge of how to be an entrepreneur, apply business discipline, count change, greet the public and care for the horses. Studies that show at-risk youth begin to make vital human connections when given the opportunity to care for animals. And, many youth seem to be especially enamored with horses.
In response, a number of people have banded together with Campaign Consultation and other organizations to launch a Win. Win. Win. Campaign to....
- Build more neighborhood-based satellite stables
- Construct adjacent rooms for after-school training and technical assistance (T/TA)
- Collaborate with the Arabber community to develop T/TA manuals
- Work with the Arabber community to provide T/TA in awareness, skills and knowledge in the husbandry of horses, applying skills in working with wood and metal in the constructing and repairing carts, customer service, business acummen, entrepreneurial discipline, etc.
- Other
The Win. Win. Win. is an expanded and more ingrained Arabber business that reduces crisis management and spawns profitability. In addition, city youth will be provided a vital opportunity to learn new work skills and on-the-job training. And finally, a more profitable, efficient and safer City of Baltimore.
In addition, there is great interest among social innovators to build upon The Arabber + City Youth Campaign and its increased “green” distribution network to also grow locally sourced food, create “green collar” jobs, improve nutrition of City residents, etc. A meeting of 20 people is scheduled at Johns Hopkins to determine next steps. Stay tuned!
AMERICORPS*VISTA Campus Initiative
In an ongoing effort to provide national service members, supervisors and sponsor organizations with the tools and resources they need to better serve communities, Campaign Consultation working with the VISTA to establish an online presence where these products can be accessed and utilized.
The VISTA Campus will allow users to:
- Research current news articles, journal entries, best practices, suggested readings and more to address the VISTA mission.
- Engage in interactive exercises that provide insights around specific skill sets such as fund raising and community-building.
- Download “Ready to Use” activities, tools and other materials for capacity building tasks in individual, organizational and community capacity building efforts.
- Learn from a variety of “User-Friendly” e-Documents that are formatted to enhance self-directed learning and are designed for use in service.
- Create a “Tool Box” that contains materials that members find most useful in their service-plan tasks.
CSAT (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment) –
FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has contracted with Campaign Consultation, Inc. since 1998 to achieve future sustainability of its grantee programs through volunteer development, marketing initiatives and fundraising efforts.
CSAT’s Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) is a grant program that offers peer based support to people with substance abuse addiction. During the past nine years, RCSP programs have won new grants, forged partnerships with state and community agencies and built firm bases of community support.
Currently, Campaign Consultation is helping RSCP grantees develop standardized measures of effectiveness which will them help compete for additional funds and increase influence in the recovery system within individual states.
Campaign Consultation also works on a consultative basis to CSAT to help plan and implement new strategic and collaborative initiatives, such as CSAT’s Recovery Summit, a series of national meetings of state system officials and treatment and recovery practitioners whose objective was to envision and begin to form a system of care that better integrated recovery and treatment principles and practices.
At CSAT’s request, Campaign Consultation is currently facilitating meetings to develop collaborative infrastructure and agreements which will assist CSAT’s Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC’s) in working together to produce a new generation of national products that will make effective substance abuse research and optimum practice standards and techniques more accessible to treatment professionals.
THE CADCA RESOURCES NOW! NATIONAL INSTITUTE
Campaign Consultation, Inc. led the CADCA Resources NOW! National Institute in Tucson, Arizona, where participants mastered resource development principles related to private funding and funding strategies. The week-long workshop focused on three themes, Individual Giving, Business Donor Giving/Partnership and Uncovering Resources in Your Community—Each theme built upon each other for a greater learning experience. The Campaign Consultation facilitation team is committed to helping community organizations “leap frog” their programs to new heights of knowledge, application and implementation in the art and science of gathering and generating resources.
- Individual Giving
- Business Donor Giving/Partnership
- Uncovering Resources in Your Community
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ELDERLY
The National Society for American Indian Elderly approached Campaign Consultation with a request for T.O.M. [Targeting, Organizing, Mobilizing] -- a hands-on model and workbook for creating community change. Developed by Campaign Consultation, T.O.M. has been used by hundreds of communities across the nation as well as internationally to advance lastingcommunity development initiatives.
DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE –
PRISONER REENTRY INITIATIVE
The US Department of Justice, Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO), asked Campaign Consultation, Inc. to design, develop and facilitate a session on "Locating Funding for Prisoner Reentry" at the CCDO National Conference, held this summer in Detroit.
The session presents baseline information on:
- helping programs expand their perceptions of service scope
- making a case for different audiences to support prisoner reentry in their community
- finding the critical resources through research tools
The chief evaluation remark from the packed room of participants was that the session provided fresh ways to research, identify and approach prospective donors.
BUILDING
COMMUNITY INSTITUTE:
THE KEY TO LASTING CHANGE
AMERICORPS VISTA 5 STATE TRAINING INSTITUTE - NEW ORLEANS, LA
Campaign Consultation, Inc. designed and delivered an intensive four day learning program for VISTA members, VISTA supervisors, and others within the national and community service field who are working to build and re-build better communities. These participants – from across 5 states - work under some of the most challenging of conditions and in some of the most difficult and emotional settings imaginable.
The content and design of the training was developed with direct input from state and local offices as well as on-the-ground field representatives and is based on a significant body of research know as the Five Cs. Participants explored how to incorporate critical principles and practices pertaining to creating sense of Community, Connections, Control, Cash and other resources, and Collective action.
“[The Gulf Coast] will be rebuilt, and it will be rebuilt with intensity, with intelligence, with impatience, and with a freshness that only serious young people can bring. When young folks are motivated to action, when they act with insight, soul and fire, they can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.” - Wynton Marsalis
NATIONAL SERVICE COMMUNICATORS INSTITUTE
The Corporation for National and Community Service sponsored its first-ever Communicators Institute, on July 15, in conjunction with the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, held in Philadelphia from July 18 –20. Campaign Consultation created the Institute for CNCS with sessions that would help those who are working to build public awareness and visibility for national and community service programs. Working with issue experts and peers, the participants discovered how best to:
- Hone Their Media Skills
- Liven Up Their Publications via a Creative Critique Clinic
- Tell Their Story
- Build Media Relations
- Demonstrate Impact
- Boost Their Brand
- Use Blogs, Pods & Vods, and
- Craft Their Communications Plan
Campaign Consultation works with a wonderfully diverse group of staff, associates, clients and collaborators. Each has a powerful and compelling story to tell. Click here to see who the focus is on this month … and check out the entire group in either the Team Profile section or the Clients & Collaborators section of our website.
Karen Michelle Otero, Associate
