Percentage Philanthropy Workshop, 25-28 September 2005
   
   Organizer: Nonprofit Information and Training Centre Foundation
   Supporters: Sasakawa Peace Foundation, OSI-LGI

   Purpose of the meeting:

  • build the strategic capacity of participants to enable them to design a targeted and
    policy-relevant advocacy campaign to support the dissemination of research findings
    • 

  • share experiences of communication and campaigning techniques related to 
    percentage philanthropy - general awareness raising and for collecting 1-2%


   Venue: Hotel Benczúr, 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 35.
   Participants: 16 representatives of CEE, SEE and NIS countries interested in introducing
   percentage systems in addition to some local Hungarian invitees
   Language: English
   
   


      AGENDA





   25 - 26. September
 



  



   9.00 -  10.00:
Welcome of the participants

(Junko Chano, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Balázs Gerencsér, NIOK)

What happened in the last one year? - question round. Development of

percentage philanthropy is introduced by each country.		





  


   10.00 - 18.00:
Two days training on developing effective advocacy strategies for policy
action by LGI trainer Lisa Quinn

The module consists of 3 main elements:

1. Developing a framework for advocacy planning

2. Developing your advocacy plan

3. Writing and using the policy brief in support of an advocacy strategy


  



   27. September
 




   9.30 - 13.30:
Advocacy cases around percentage philanthropy and philanthropy
development (facilitation by Lisa Quinn, LGI)





   14.30 - 16.30:
Communication and campaigning practices related to percentage philanthropy 
(facilitation by Marianna Torok, Aniko Porkolab, NIOK)		



  



   Session I.
General awareness raising campaigns aiming to facilitate the success 
of the percentage system 

  • Hungary: Balazs Gerencser (NIOK, Budapest)
    • 

  • Romania: Roxana Muresan (ARC, Cluj Napoca)
    • 

  • Slovakia: Jana Kadlecova (Bratislava)
    • 

The session will show us the necessity and aims of general campaigns, 
    and guide us through the different methods, services and creative ways of 
    exploiting opportunities to communicate with the potential 
    beneficiaries and designators.
    
The session is informal, so it includes questions and answers upon need.    		

    

      
    

    
   16.45 - 18.30:
Tools, institutions helping NGO communications and campaigns
    


  • Advertising agency - how an advertising agency can provide assistance to 
    NGOs in their campaigns?     (Dalbir Singh, Ogilvy&Mather, Hungary)
    • 

  • Communication toolkit - how the collection of experiences can help NGOs in 
    designing communication campaigns?     (Roxana Muresan, ARC, Cluj Napoca)
    • 

Expected topics include: what are the common features of the campaigns if 
    NGOs are in different countries with different field of activities? What are 
    the aspects, which will decide, what kind of a campaign an NGO can run?
    
How an advertising agency can assist in an NGO campaign? What are the 
    mechanisms and reasons for cooperation?    		

    

    
   28. September
 

    

      
    

    
   9.30 - 13.30:
Communication and campaigning practices related to percentage philanthropy
    (facilitation by Marianna Torok, NIOK)    		

    

      
    

    
   Session II:
Communication campaigns of NGOs for convincing citizens 
    to donate 1-2% to a specific NGO
    


    

The session will provide an insight into the different methods of communication 
    of the NGOs in the countries - whether the differences are up to the specific 
    countries or because of the different size, clientele, region or activity? 
    The participants can ask the NGOs about their experiences in detail.    
    		

    

    
  

    

    
   14.30 - 17.30:
Individual consultations with Lisa Quinn on advocacy strategies
    
The schedule for the consultations will be prepared during the 
    training session upon need.    		

    

    

   Please, see and download background materials and visuals about the communication campaigns 
   of the organisations presenting their campaign at the workshop:

    
   Please, visit our gallery of photos from the workshop!
   
   Percentage Philanthropy Workshop, 16-20 October 2004
   The workshop was jointly supported by Sasakawa Peace Foundation and OSI - LGI
   
   Conference Presentors

   Hereinafter, the title "conference" will refer to the entire four-day workshop whereas the 
   title "workshop" will refer to the two-day policy paper writing workshop that took place the
   last two days.


   Percentage Philanthropy Conference, 19-20 January 2004
   On 19-20 January 2004 the draft papers of a comprehensive study on Percentage Philanthropy
   were presented and discussed at the Percentage Philanthropy Conference in Budapest
   organised by the Nonprofit Information and Training Centre (NIOK).

   A total of 160 participants from over 20 countries took part including many of the experts
   who contributed to the study as well as NGO representatives, researchers, policy makers and
   government officials with an interest in percentage laws.

   A report on the conference proceedings is available in the concluding chapter of the Percentage
   Philanthropy study (Chapter VII), along with the final versions of all the other papers presented
   at the conference. 

   For more details about the conference see:


   
    Visuals, background materials presented by lecturers at the conference
    

    

    


   
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