Making Friends and Influencing People

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Making Friends andInfluencing PeoplePriceless!
Building Support and Funding for Your
Organization

• M. Dolores Cimini, Ph.D.
• University at Albany, SUNY
• The 2007 National Conference for Advisors of Peer
  Education Groups
• The BACCHUS Network
• June 17-20, 2007
• Marriott City Center Denver, Colorado

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Learning Objectives

• Familiarize participants with the effective
  program components of the Middle Earth Peer
  Assistance Program, particularly the alliances
  which have been developed with the student
  government, divisions of academic affairs and
  student affairs, university media and development
  offices, and other areas
• Teach participants how to seek out and build
  alliances and funding sources on their campuses
• Assist participants in identifying sources of
  external funding through foundations and
  corporations to support their peer education
  programs.

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Our Mission

• STUDENTS
• HELPING
• STUDENTS

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Our Key Alliances

• A Service of the
• University Counseling Center,
• Division of Student Affairs
• and funded in part by the
• Student Association

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Program Components

• Hotline
• Peer Education
• Staff Training and Staff Development

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Hotline Service

• open noon-midnight, Mon.-Thurs. 24 hours on
  weekends
• over 1,600 contacts per year
• serves campus and community
• only hotline of its type in Albany

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Peer Education Program

• provides peer education workshops for campus and
  community
• coordinates Sexuality Week and other campus-wide
  theme weeks
• sponsors the Middle Earth Players, a campus
  theater group
• authors Middle Earth Roots help column and a
  radio talk show on WCDB 90.9FM

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Staff Training Program

• trains undergraduate students in hotline
  counseling, peer education, and important campus
  issues
• offers academic course credit (4 courses)
• prepares students for careers in the helping/
  human services fields

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Program Staff

• Director (Psychologist)
• Student Officers
• Psychology Intern
• Graduate Assistants
• 85 Hotline Counselors
• 16 Peer Educators
• 40 Trainees

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Importance of Building Alliances

• What is an ally?
• The concept of networking
• Building a safety net for your organization
• The role of leadership in building alliances and
  networks
• Maintaining respect for others
• One for all, and all for one Cooperation and
  collaboration builds strength

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Types of Alliances and Networks

• Other students and student organizations
• Student government
• Student Affairs staff
• Academic departments
• Community organizations
• University development office and
  private/corporate foundations
• University and local media
• Other colleges and universities
• National and regional peer education organizations

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Having Alliances When the Going Gets Tough

• Peer program crises
• Campus crises
• Staffing issues
• Funding issues
• Other group resource issues (e.g.-office space,
  etc.)
• Controversial issues
• National issues/crises affecting the peer group

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How to Recruit Alliesfor Your Program

• Advertising avenues
• Postcards
• Fleering
• Pestering
• Radio
• Television
• News Paper
• Cool gifts to remind others
• Free tickets to come
• Talking to RAs
• Email
• Tell professors
• Announce in Class

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Alliances are PricelessWhere to Get Funding

• Ask college or university
• Get grants
• Ask student government
• Private stores for possible donations for prizes
  or food
• Bake sales
• Candy Sales
• Car wash
• Dance marathons

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What About A Grant?

• Good idea
• Significant
• Need based
• Can be institutionalized
• Focused
• Content-holistic and inclusive to achieve the
  goals
• Manageable and structured
• Feasible

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Planning

• Network, particularly w/in SUNY
• Meet with OSP
• Share successful grant applications
• Familiarize yourself with current literature
• Establish priorities-strategic planning
• Gather pilot data
• Call sponsors

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Types of Sponsors

• Federal
• State
• Foundation
• Corporate
• Non profit
• Gifts
• Local government
• Other

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On-line Databases

• SPIN www.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp
• IRIS www.library.uiuc.edu/iris
• COS www.cos.com
• Bigonline Database www.bigdatabase.com
• Foundation Center www.fdncenter.org
• Grants.gov www.grants.gov

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Automatic Email Notifications

• Campus listserv from any databases above
• Notifications by sponsor
• ED, EdInfo send email to listproc_at_inet.ed.gov
• NSF, E-Bulletin www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/ebulletin/mai
  lit.pl

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Other Sources

• Prior awards to the institution
• Internal seed funds (ASC, SCAP, OSP)
• Abstracts on sponsor web pages or professional
  journals, media
• Contact sponsors for funding referrals

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Contact Information

• Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program
• University Counseling Center
• Health Counseling Building, Second Floor
• University at Albany, SUNY
• Albany, NY 12222
• Program Director
• M. Dolores Cimini, Ph.D.
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email Address dcimini_at_uamail.albany.edu
• Web Address http//www.albany.edu/counseling_cent
  er/