Fact Sheet #1
10 Steps to Success
10 Steps to Success by Daniel Ferguson - Ideas and tasks that can help your Friends' Group to be successful in supporting your library.
- Origins - Setting a firm foundation
- Doing your homework
- Talking to the Library Manager and Council
- Talking with other FOL groups
- Understanding your community
- Speaking with FOLA
- Objectives - Where am I going and why
- What do you want to achieve
- Lobbying
- Support
- Specify AIMS
- Communicate
- Constitution - Getting it right
- Model constitution
- Incorporation
- Public Liability
- Legal Officer
- Membership - It makes a difference
- Numbers counts
- Membership target
- Benefits
- Communication
- Revenue - Making it happen
- $ make a difference
- What role fundraising
- 'Relationship marketing'
- Personal contacts
- Saying - Thank you
- Library Support - A helping hand
- Administrative
- Personal contacts
- Discuss with Library Manager
- Activities - Showing the way
- Lobbying
- Programs - social/literary/book sales
- Annual Meeting
- Invitations
- Publicity
- Problems - Being honest
- Define purpose of FOL groups
- Volunteer's manual
- $ - for what?
- Lobbying
- Courtesy, planning, communication
- Seeking help
- Accomplishments - Let's make a splash!
- Publicity/Public Relations
- Communicate to other FOLs
- Celebrate occasions
- Invite Councillors and Donors
- Do you have a web site?
- Creativity - It's important
- Establish a 'niche'
- Check out other FOLs
- FOLA Best of Friends Awards