DALLAS CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER
The Dallas children advocacy center (DCAC) is a children advocacy center established in Texas to deal with the children experiencing criminal child abuse in their family or those experiencing violence. According to the program, they believe that education is the key and the best tool to protect children from those who seek to harm children. Thus, the centers’ mission becomes to help improve the children's lives of the offenders by providing a lead on the issues associated with child abuse, especially in Dallas. They do so by coordinating the investigation of the cases, the prosecution of the offenders, and ensure the healing of the abused children in the Dallas society. The cases of child abuse happening in the community amounting to 28,131 reports on child abuse. The process requires to allot of funds, and the association is a non-profit association; thus, all the funds are acquired through grants, fundraising, and donations to create revenue to run the place.
The organization meets its revenue needs through fundraising, where they have a revenue of $204,915. Fundraising at DCAC has been effective by developing fundraising techniques that ensure the fundraising operation is made possible. The organization has been getting fundraising for decades, with the amount raised totalling one million dollars with over five hundred and fifty volunteers and a thousand donors. The fundraising included the appetite, aim advocacy, having 200 attendance at the Dallas club event, and art advocacy. More than 100 local and regional all-around artists were represented in the special event (DALLAS CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER annual report, 2017: 15). The last special event had the keynote speakers as Jon Dorenbos, a two-time NFL Pro Bowler, a great performer in the NBA who shared his life story with people motivating and advising them on the importance of their choice. The special event had $1,149,216 as per the 2007 annual report; the company also receives gifts acquired through face-to-face interaction with people with high status in the community like the leaders in both political and other sectors.
Grants are obtained from the government agencies or corporations where they are granted in relation to where they are from the leader’s donation or obtained through a proposal request by the organization. For example, the Texas bar association was responsible for offering seventy-five thousand dollars to the DCAC to help and continue to fight against child abuse. The grant was to educate the first responders on handling and responding to child abuse cases and neglected children. The grants are used to educate the patrol officers to enable them to interrogate the children effectively without instilling fears in them. The united state department has also been on the front line to provide the grants; they offered more than $ 12.9 million to children advocacy centers to enable them to instil training to the respondent and reach more children. DCAC has educated respondents who include parents, some community members, and other professionals like police having the education done through seminars to have five thousand attendees from each in the US. The workshops give them knowledge and skills to identify and report children's cases with the abuse cases and provide the professionals with certified training in the field through the four hundred and seventy-five workshops and three hundred speakers. The program had a total of 100 405 educated personnel in all fields in 2019.
The amount of money offered through philanthropic support from individuals to Dallas children advocacy as per the 2015 annual report includes a total of more than five thousand dollars for gifts donors. The exceptional event cases where the company was holding had one thousand attendance with the amount donated to the company totalling $711500 ((DALLAS CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER annual report, 2015: 16). The organization's support was an event done at the individual level where people were volunteering in the organization's activities like playing with the children and folding their clothes. A total of 1806 volunteers were made from this, with 16,397 hours were given to the organization's service (Dallas children advocacy center: financial, 2019). This amount represented the amount presented by individuals and the individual people in our special event, including auction and art advocacy. An event held by Dallas Gun Club aimed to advocate one hundred and fifty dollars to support the Dallas children advocacy center. The event was a competition and challenging tournament where sponsors and their teams gathered for hunting and fishing experiences. The event also had a raffle of luxury, having lunch between the sponsors and their teams, the recreational items and activities, and a live auction where valuable products were on sale.
The program's fundraising strategies need to incorporate more events and activities to raise funds and use different fundraising techniques. The fundraising strategy activity includes special events like the auction where commodities are sold to the highest bidder, and the sales go back to the center. The special event also includes scenarios where the people make sales of things they do not use at home and donate money. The proposal to get grants from non-government organizations and the government provides the organizations with funds. Creating a capital endorsement campaign where it’s done with the short time frame where they can an object such as the renovation or construction of a new building, sometimes the charity can be involved in the marketing effort to do it on behalf of charity provide money to the organization. The money obtained from these market activities by the DCAC acts as a fund source for the organization, promoting fundraising programs.
Recommendations.
In the fundraising strategies, the organization should enhance the marketing for big corporations to enhance their funding. The agreement between the organization's management should request the big partner corporation to ensure that they offer them. The events where the special event is help should be broadcasted to the community where the organization gains its benefits and uses it for advertising a corporation under them. The strategy needs consideration of not offending the chief donor to avoid loss of more funds. The marketing department should also ensure that the organization is well marketed to ensure that they get more donations by giving the children the statistics they help save and the numbers that benefit from the program more frequently rather than ding it annually.
The special events should be done frequently to include the art advocacy, appetite, and aim advocacy to incorporate other activities. The activities such as sport will attract more people causing the event to be more profitable in fund collection. The organization should interact in the activities that will help create more funds by ensuring that they have got the attention of society's critical members. The alignment with prominent community members benefits the organization more as they tend to give more huge gifts and donations, creating more money for the company. To capture these people's attention in the community, the company should ensure they focus on engaging in golf players and incorporating them in the special event. The aspect of inviting prominent keynote speakers also creates the interest of most prominent people to attend the event as the activity is viewed as a center for meeting them. The same applies to the ordinary people more attracted to the prominent figures, thus attending to see their idles.
References
Dallas children advocacy center annual report of 2017 retrieved from https://www.savejane.com/wp-content/uploads/DCAC-18
Dallas children advocacy center annual report of 2015 retrieved from Center for Children's Advocacy Annual Report 2015 by Center for Children's Advocacy - issuu
Dallas advocate center: financial retrieved from
https://dcac.org/about-us/financials/
