It’s a busy time at Concordia Place! The 3rd Annual Golf Outing is under a month away, and I’ve enjoyed creating content all about it. The Annual Golf Outing happens each summer and is a fantastic fundraising event for Concordia Place.
Participants can decide if they’d like to play as an individual or foursome, and their registration fees become funds for the organization.
My latest project has consisted of making a series of raffle prize reveal posts. There are all sorts of exciting experiences, items and excursions raffle participants have the potential to win. My latest reveal post was for two Xtreme Xperience Full Throttle Passes. Xtreme Xperience is a company that offers all sorts of race track experiences and thrills. This Full Throttle package consists of unlimited in-car videos, digital photos, spectator pit passes and a t-shirt.
To post the graphics I create, I use a website called Constant Contact. It makes my life a bit easier because rather than having to post on each social media platform (we use LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter), I can post them all at once from the site. If there need to be differences in the captions, I have the option to separate them and tweak each individual platform’s post. This comes in handy when I want to add hashtags to the posts but need to remove them for Twitter so I don’t go over the character/word count.
I have also been working on creating the trifold pamphlet that will be used at the golf outing. The trifold design can easily be slipped into the golfers’ caddies. It has information about Concordia Place, the schedule for the event, who the committee members are, photos, and logos of the sponsors. Shutterfly has been really useful for me because it gives me access to Concordia Place photos I can incorporate into materials and posts. As a remote intern, getting to look at the pictures has been helpful for me to gain a better grasp of what life at Concordia Place looks like since I haven’t been able to visit the site in-person.
Other websites that I’m acclimating to are Grant Station and Every Action. Grant Station is a site that helps nonprofits look for grant opportunities and applications. Currently I’m taking a stab at building some grant writing skills. I’ve learned a lot about how each company/corporation has a different format and different requests about what to include in the letter you send them. Every Action is a site that is used to store information about donorship and has the ability to send and sort emails. This helps make sure that messages go to the right people and keeps track of information that better helps Concordia Place reach potential donors.
In addition to creating posts and graphics, I’ve gotten the opportunity to sit in on meetings discussing DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion). I’ve really appreciated getting to see the process of developing DEI plans and what it looks like to see them in action within an organization. I look forward t o continuing to be part of the advancement team and seeing what we will accomplish in July!
– Maiah Deogracias, Concordia Place