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by Simone Joye Eford (Author)
Fulfill Your Mission Are you are contemplating starting or building a nonprofit organization? If you answered yes, that's awesome The world needs more people like you. This inspirational and easy-to-follow read provides you with insider information from an award-winning twenty-five-year nonprofit veteran. This is book for the weary, the curious, and the conquers, who are starting and building a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization to serve the public. Read and Conquer: -The Top 15 Things to Do before you spend a dime. -How to obtain your own salary as a new founder. -How to use your own ideas to impress funders. -Marketing strategies that convinced entertainment mogul Tyler Perry to visit and donate. -Proven techniques to build and sustain an awesome nonprofit for a new generation, and much more
Author Biography
About the Author Simone Joye Eford is a visionary, charismatic social entrepreneur and public speaker with a career which includes nonprofit leadership in New York, New Jersey and Georgia. Simone is a national award-winning humanitarian, million-dollar fundraiser, and three-time executive director and the founder of two nonprofits-The National Association of Nonprofit Professionals (nanpp.org) and Young People Matter (YPM), an organization which provided emergency shelter and services to homeless, runaway and sexually-exploited young people. As a nonprofit and media communications consultant, Simone has worked on behalf of a myriad of nonprofits, elected officials, entertainers and individuals including: PSE&G, Radio One Atlanta, Boys & Girls Clubs, the YWCA of Greater New York, along with the governments of Bermuda and Ghana. Simone has also served as a board member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and on the advisory board member of the Roddy White Foundation. For her commitment to helping others she has received numerous awards and accolades including the: -Humanitarian of the Year-Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -Norman Borlaug Humanitarian/MedAssets Award -Special Congressional Recognition from Congressman Hank Johnson and US House of Representatives -Georgia Outstanding Citizen Award - Secretary of State -Be Greater Award from the Atlanta Hawks and SunTrust -Thomas C. Wilson Youth Services Award-DeKalb County NAACP -Woman of the Year-Zeta Phi Beta Sorority -Outstanding Print Journalist-Hunter College/CUNY -Scholarship awards: NABJ and the New York Association of Black Journalists.
