Tag: Q A-Z: M
Part of MBS’s Quaker A-Z series. Published bi-weekly on an annual theme throughout the calendar year.
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Marketing
Telling Your Charity’s Story With Purpose Marketing often feels like a luxury for small charities – something squeezed in between the ‘real work’ of service delivery, funding bids, and compliance. But here’s the truth: if people don’t know what your charity does, they can’t support you. Marketing isn’t just about promotion; it’s a key part
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of a specific Area Meeting. But in this post, I’m thinking about what helps us feel that we belong to a worshiping community – whether or not we’ve been formally recorded.
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Maintenance of Files
Planned Files Maintenance Regular blocks of planned maintenance can help keep your files intelligible for yourself and others. When I did my Business Administration and Management Diploma (way back in the last century!), we were recommended to block out half a day once a month to deal with filing. All the paperwork that had arrived in
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Measuring & Management
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. M is for measuring Increasing productivity or income, decreasing waste and carbon all sound good but how can you tell if the plans you’ve so carefully made are working? Keeping a record of measurements can help you decide if that
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Mission and Money (but not Marketing)
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. M is for Mission What is your mission? Not a question that is asked often here in the UK. But one that was a common first question among people meeting in Kenya during the FWCC World Conference in 2012. Instead of the more
