JGR200: Understanding Roles and Skills for a Fundraising Event

This report focuses on understanding the essential roles and skills required for planning a successful fundraising event for Transparent Hands, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free surgical and medical care to underprivileged individuals. The chosen fundraising method is a marathon, aimed at raising funds for patients with heart diseases needing surgeries. The report outlines five key roles: Team Leader, Event Planner, Event Manager, Safety Coordinator, and Publicist, detailing the specific tasks and skills needed for each role. The importance of teamwork, communication, and passion is emphasized, along with the ability to stay organized and calm under pressure. The report concludes by highlighting the interconnectedness of the roles and the collective effort required to achieve the goal of raising funds and saving lives, with the team leader's role being crucial in motivating and supporting team members.

Running head: UNDERSTANDING ROLES AND SKILLS
UNDERSTANDING ROLES AND SKILLS
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Author Note

1UNDERSTANDING ROLES AND SKILLS
Fundraising events does not mean only raising money but it also fulfills the purpose
of promoting a notable cause and charity. Fundraising is important for charity groups to make
people aware and make them understand about the goals of the organization. This paper talks
about the organization Transparent Hands and the fundraising method that will help the
organization to achieve their goals.
Transparent Hands is a Non-profit organization that funds free surgical and medical
care for the underprivileged class. The main aim of the organization is to raise fund to help
and support the people who deserve proper medical facilities but cannot afford them.
The fund raising event that will be conducted by the organization Transparent Hands
will be a marathon. Recently the NGO Transparent Hands has been dealing with many
patients who have heart diseases and need heart surgeries thus marathon has been chosen as
the ideal event to raise fund as running improves heart health. In order to successfully
conduct the event the team leader needs to choose people who will be best suitable for the
event and people who will have proper skills to run the event successfully.
The people assigned, the work completed by the team leaders and the skills that the
people will need are the following:
Team
Member
Tasks to be completed Skills Needed
1. Team Leader  Organizing team
members
 Assigning jobs to
team members
 Identifying contacting
partners or sponsors
 Organizing committee
 Teamwork
 Communication
 Inter-personal effectiveness
 Flexibility
 Integrity and work ethics

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meetings and planning
sessions
 Tracking fundraising
in real-time for the
event
2. Event
Planner
 Identifying and
confirming speakers,
presenter or
entertainers
 Identifying and
contacting sponsors.
 Creating an event
timeline
 Creating email event
notifications
 Creating a map for the
event location
 Communication
 Teamwork
 Analytical ability
 Personal management
 Creative thinking
3. Event
manager
 Making
accommodation
arrangements for
presenters.
 Reviewing security
needs
 Sending reminders
and schedule details to
speakers, presenters
and facilitators.
 Communication
 Inter-personal effectiveness
4. Safety
Coordination
 Negotiating vendor
contracts
 Flexibility
 Integrity and work
ethics
5. Publicist  Advertising event on
social media
 Creating email event
notification
 Posting event details
on the organization’s
Facebook page.
 Communication
 Technical Literacy
 Creative Thinking

3UNDERSTANDING ROLES AND SKILLS
The Marathon event that is going to be organized for the NGO, Transparent Hands
needs the five people who will be able to carry out the five roles that will comprise of the
team leader, an event planner, an event manager, a safety coordinator and a publicist. A team
leader needs to make sure that all the work is being distributed and performed properly by the
people. The event planner needs to make a proper plan that will help to raise the funds. The
event manager needs to coordinate with the people to make sure that the event is going to go
smoothly and achieve the goal that the event intends on doing. As this is a marathon event
preventive and safety measures must be taken to ensure that there are no casualties and the
people participating in the event are safe and enjoy the event as well.
The committee here is a team as people here are working to achieve the mutual goal
that is raising fund for the people who need a heart surgery. The people here are not working
for their individual benefits or for any personal motive. All the roles are interrelated and the
people are participating and contributing their best to make the event a huge success to raise
funds for the NGO that will help save lives.
As a team leader the main aim is to motivate the people who are working under him
or her and put full faith on the people. The key factor that I would like to foster on my
junior’s to be organized, be passionate and to be calm under pressure. These are three
attributes a person should have when they are working for events as events need to be
organized in a systematic manner so that the event goes smoothly. One must be passionate
towards the work that is being conducted as the main aim of the event is to raise fund for
people who cannot afford expensive medical costs. A person’s passion will make the person
work hard and give their best to make sure the primary goal is being achieved. Organizing
events can build pressure as there are many things that may go wrong and many untoward
situations may arise. Being calm in such situation helps people to think rationally and take
effective alternative steps that will eventually pave for a successful event.

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