tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87505182024-03-13T05:00:32.285+00:00Kevs BlogKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-29378279292990983772020-03-18T16:10:00.001+00:002020-03-18T16:10:11.106+00:00Tomorrow
If you know me well you know that I'm an Aaron Sorkin fan.Whether it's The West Wing, The Newsroom, Sports Night or even the much misunderstood Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip it is rare that I go more than a couple of weeks without rewatching a favourite episode or two.Why this (almost) obsession?Well of course Sorkin is one of the best script writers of his generation and nobody has ever Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-88079601964081041292019-04-18T14:24:00.000+01:002019-04-18T14:24:22.034+01:00In defence of billionaires
Never let it be said that there was a bandwagon that I didn't jump on and undoubtedly the wagon of this week was the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral.
If you've ever been close to a fire whether its a building, a car or even just a large bonfire you'll know how visceral an experience it is - You'll remember the heat, the colour, the sound, the smell.
So watching the non stop coverage of one Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-81387518881348787502017-03-03T09:46:00.002+00:002017-03-08T18:53:27.106+00:00Crazy Little Thing Called Love (donor love)So one thing that I rarely post about - when I post at all - is my actual work.
There's no real reason why I don't other than I never quite get around to it.
However I wanted to join the #donorlove conversation and share our own dipping of our toes in the pool of donor love. We've only just begun so I figured it will be good to write a series of follow ups on results, impact and just Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-21759427165290858472016-09-15T10:49:00.001+01:002016-09-15T10:49:17.255+01:00Everyday is Game Day - Summer Hack Series Episode 2Jordan.
Pele.
Senna.
O'Driscoll.
Ballesteros.
Legends
The Elite. The Best of the Best.
Why?
Because when it was needed
When it was needed
When time was running out
When they were behind
They Delivered
When it would take something extraordinary - they were extraordinary
When others looked around - they were the ones looking forward.
We love sports and sportspeople because they deliver Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-72319305797429662382016-09-14T15:42:00.002+01:002016-09-14T15:42:55.416+01:00Summer Hack Series Episode 1 - Board Obstruction?In the last few weeks I've attended the awesome Ask Direct Fundraising Summer School and we've had our 5th Charity Hack.
Both of these events threw up a number of consistent thoughts,irritants and/or rant fuel (I think I'm going to patent the phrase rant fuel)
So I've decided to combine them into a Summer Hack (see what I did there) series and post them over the coming weeks.
Todays topic - Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-59315851976136750512016-08-31T10:03:00.001+01:002016-08-31T10:03:09.359+01:00Then We'll do What's Hard West Wing - 20 Hours in America II - Final lines
TOBY
If our job teaches us anything, it's that we don't know what the next President's gonna face. And if
we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who's connected to other
people's lives, and cares about making them better... if we choose someone to inspire us, then we'll
be able to face what comes our way and Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-5496888429581397522016-06-29T14:39:00.001+01:002016-06-29T14:41:43.238+01:00Because we believe in hope - Charity Hack 5 Registrations now open!The last few days, weeks and months have been dark.
We've had Brexit and the racist hate that has spun off it.
We've had attacks on Paris and yesterday Istanbul.
We've had Console and more bad press for charities.
This leads to too many people being down, too many people resigned to a world view that every thing is bad and it's all gone to shit! and more importantly that's it's out of our Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-75754897849997217052016-04-28T14:06:00.000+01:002016-04-28T14:06:19.469+01:00A very short survey about your organisationLoading...Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-70105094193220619072015-11-19T16:51:00.002+00:002015-11-19T16:51:51.287+00:00Team Charity Hack - We're looking for amazing peopleWell much more than friends really.
We want to take Charity Hack way beyond Dublin
In fact we want to go way beyond everywhere.
We want to bring Charity Hack to
Norwich and Norway,
Auckland and Austria,
Chicago and the Czech Republic
and everywhere in between.
But
the Charity Hack team is very small.
We need to find amazing, inspirational, enthusiastic, brilliant and committed volunteers Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-61182663542166855962015-10-30T22:05:00.004+00:002015-10-30T22:05:44.000+00:00What one fundraising tip would you share?This morning I presented a session for Fundraising Ireland "Essential Fundraising Bootcamp". It was for a group most of whom were new to fundraising and the goal was to give them a feel for fundraising, a sense at all the different forms of fundraising and a taste of the sector they have joined.
One of the remarkable things I always find about fundraising is the willingness to share.
Can you Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-85746019992246420052015-10-07T13:59:00.000+01:002015-11-02T16:01:01.390+00:00Everything I know about fundraising is encapsulated in Fairytale of New York<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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When you're fundraising, whether
you're a charity or an individual volunteer fundraiser, it's very easy to think
of the process as transactional.
I'm running a marathon. I'll send
everybody a link to my fundraising page and ask them to sponsor me. Some of
them will think I'm a great boy/girl and will make a donation and others won't.
Simple.
Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-10220484818709100142015-09-30T15:28:00.001+01:002015-09-30T15:28:08.507+01:00Charity Hack USA - Sure why not?
There have been 4 Charity Hack events since we started on this little journey.
We've had 19 charities spend a whole day with us as we pulled and prodded at their organisation with the goal of mining a precious gem of an idea to help them achieve their dreams.
We've had over 50 individual hackers give up their time and donate all their inspiration and talent to causes that they Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-35172940704584238172015-05-29T16:36:00.002+01:002015-05-29T16:36:28.252+01:00Charity Hack 4 - 12th September 2015 - Registration is Open NOW!Ok I know I said we'd open registration on the 1st of June but I'm just too excited so I've opened it right now!
Go to www.charityhack.ie and register your interest to be a hacker or a hackee right away.
So what's the Big Idea?
Charity Hack is built on a simple foundation. There
are brilliant people with huge hearts working incredibly hard to solve
some of the worlds hardest Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-80984405872818688592015-04-10T13:49:00.001+01:002015-04-10T13:49:17.264+01:00Elevator Pitch My AssIf there is one thing that we in the charity sector are worse at than actually asking for money its telling people why we exist in the first place.
We really are terrible at talking about ourselves.
and I have proof.
Over the 3 Charity Hack events we have run we've had 64 different charities apply all of whom had to fill out an application form which included the quesion. "In less than 50 Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-19407301912843154112014-12-08T16:31:00.005+00:002014-12-08T16:31:43.500+00:00Dusting off the blog - 6 months onWell it has been a long time since I've written anything. Some of you may be happy about that while others have missed these rambling posts.
I never intended to stop or to take a break and it's not that I haven't had anything to say or there has been a lack of things I'd like to comment on.
Really it's been about a shortage of time and lack of head space to get my thoughts in order. The little Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-29681954772627775412014-06-17T20:01:00.000+01:002014-06-17T20:08:24.645+01:00The Magic ArrowI was asked to do a short blog about my magic arrow.
Your what?
Yes my magic arrow.
When I worked with the Irish Cancer Society I spent a lot of time recruiting volunteers to take join committees and then teaching those volunteers to recruit their own volunteers and supporters.
Now if you've ever had to call people to ask them to do an event, join a committee or even ask them for money the Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-19045379258502665202014-06-16T09:32:00.000+01:002014-06-16T09:32:17.830+01:00The Past. The Present. The Future.So it's been a while since I blogged.
It's been a busy couple of months really.
First off we had Charity Hack 3 taking place during the +Fundraising Ireland National Conference. It was a completely different type of hack really. It took place in a hotel conference room rather than a beautiful Georgian classroom. It was on a Thursday rather than a weekend and the vibe was just different.
Not Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-15954714164196855432014-04-06T21:10:00.000+01:002014-04-06T21:10:05.479+01:00So lucky
Charity Hack isn't even a year old yet and it's already been an incredible adventure.
Since our first hack we've worked with 11 charities (with another 5 to come on Thursday).
We've had 60+ charities apply to be hacked and ask for help.
We've built an amazing team of hackers with the widest range of skills imaginable and they've all given so much to help our charities.
Over Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-11590375276970687182014-02-23T22:48:00.002+00:002014-02-23T22:48:18.056+00:00My two or three centsSilence is golden.
Say nothing.
Keep your mouth shut.
Stay safe.
Don't raise your head above the parapet for fear of getting shot.
These are the thoughts that are going through my head and have been going through my head for the last few weeks. The charity sector has been under attack from all sides and with some justification, although not all the attacks are justified.
Through all this Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-45933938296693156842014-01-20T20:40:00.003+00:002014-01-20T20:40:54.376+00:00Watch some of the CH2 highlights Charity Hack 2 is done and dusted. It was AWESOME.
I'll write a review in the next few days when the words have come back into my tired head.
But fir those of you who weren't able to make Charity Hack +Laura Ryder and James Keating interviewed Charities and Hackers to capture their experience of the day.
Soon we will have each of the charities individual story from Charity Hack Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-30199428506791842752014-01-13T21:44:00.002+00:002014-01-13T21:47:50.185+00:00Is this the best fundraising team ever assembled in Ireland?
So here's the complete list of hackers for Charity Hack 2.
Gerard Tiernan @tiernangerard
Delighted
to be part of charity hack once again and looking forward to meeting incredible
people. He brings experience of working with various charities on running a
wide range of fundraising events with limited budgets and resources which in
these challenging times is vital. He is ready to give Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-4956509996832000872014-01-09T12:18:00.002+00:002014-01-09T12:18:22.233+00:00Looking back - Glancing forwardSo this is the post I've been meaning to write for the last few weeks.
Part reflection on the year passed and part optimistic forward glance.
Today we are 9 days out from our second Charity Hack event. We have selected 5 amazing charities and almost 30 volunteer hackers are donating their time and talents in order to create new fundraising campaigns over the course of 12 hours next Saturday.
Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-21418586228739335502014-01-05T16:16:00.000+00:002014-01-16T21:20:31.181+00:00Charity Hack 2 Needs Your HelpIf you've been following Charity Hack over the last few months you'll know that we're doing our best to help charities to raise more money to continue to do their amazing work.
In order to do this we need help. Charity Hack is 100% voluntary, no charities are charged to take part and all of the awesome hackers donate their time for 12 hours just because they're good people. We have no income butKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-33448840765339526752013-12-30T10:24:00.002+00:002013-12-30T10:24:22.793+00:00Charity Hack Revisited - ACT for MeningitisWhat happened after Charity Hack?
We've been asked by lots of people what happened to the organisations after the first Charity Hack?
Did it make a difference?
Was it all just a big waste of time?
+Laura Ryder returned to the charities to see how the Charity Hack experience impacted them
Here she speaks to Siobhan Carroll from ACT for Meningitis.
“You need to go in with an open mind,Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750518.post-65336190712271308582013-12-24T20:58:00.000+00:002013-12-24T20:58:06.532+00:00Happy Christmas
We want to wish everybody who has played any part in Charity Hack a very Happy Christmas. May you and all whom you hold dear have a peaceful and joyous season.
I've been a bit slack on the blog posts over the last few weeks. Normal service will resume with a recap of 2013 over the next few days
Kevin
Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822597135455143533noreply@blogger.com0