PDC-5: The PDC Series: The Bird's Eye View - 1

PDC-5: The PDC Series: The Bird's Eye View - 1

 

Before we start with the discussion of the topics, it might be useful to introduce you to the topics that we plan to discuss. We believe this would help you to pitch in the right topic that you have firsthand experience. This series is still a work in progress, and hence changes might be made.

 

Although the charitable organizations of our church if the focus, we need to have a clear understanding of the metrics and best practices of an ideal charity before we look at our charitable initiatives.

 

In the beginning of the series, we will spend the time in analyzing the best practices followed by the ideal charitable institutions. We will look at factors that the common man expects from the charities that will ultimately gain his confidence and encourage him to be actively involved in reaching out to others. We will also focus on the ways the common man can use his talents to influence the charity space.

 

Towards the end of the series, we will try to feel the common man's pulse about our church's charitable initiatives. We will try to analyze our church's current charitable initiatives from its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats perspective. We will look at the current involvement of the people in its decisions, and the factors driving it to understand if it is a truly a people driven initiative?

 

Once we have discussed the two, we will look at the delta (if any) between the two (the ideal and ours). We will elicit your suggestions on the scope of improvements and the facelifts that our charitable initiatives might need to eliminate the delta. Here are the topics we plan to discuss.

 

PDC-01: Charity: A Tribute to Parumala thirumeni
PDC-02: The People Driven Charity: A series
PDC-03: The Evolution of the Fish Curry for the Common Man
PDC-04: The empowered compassionate common man
PDC-05: The PDC Series: The Bird’s Eye View – Part 1
PDC-06: The PDC Series: The Bird’s Eye View – Part 2
PDC-07: The PDC Series: The Boundaries and the disclaimers
PDC-08: En route Jerusalem to Jericho
PDC-09: The Samaritan to the Good Samaritan
PDC-10: The Good Samaritan: The inheritor of the Eternal Life
PDC-11: Why not a Good Levite?
PDC-12: The Traditional Charity Life Cycle
PDC-13: The People Driven Charity Life Cycle
PDC-14: Awareness: The Differentiator and the Value Builder
PDC-15: Awareness: The art of reading the mind of the audience
PDC-16: Awareness: Instant Lottery model Vs Insurance model
PDC-17: Awareness: The fine line between Awareness and Marketing
PDC-18: The transformational effect of Awareness: Information and Timing
PDC-19: The transformational effect of Awareness: Rearranging the puzzle
PDC-20: Awareness: Bridging the long distance ends
PDC-21: Awareness: Information at our finger tips
PDC-22: Awareness: The Challenges recap
PDC-23: Achieving the Awareness dream: The Missionaries’ hat 
PDC-24: Awareness: His right, His responsibility, Our right, ___
PDC-25: Awareness: Why we don't write
PDC-26: Awareness: Charity begins at home
PDC-27: Giving: Why Do We Give?
PDC-28: Giving: Donor Profiles: The Compassionate Careful Giver
PDC-29: Giving: Donor Profiles: The Investor
PDC-30: Giving: Donor Profiles: The Converter
PDC-31: Giving: The Face Value Vs the Cause value
PDC-32: Giving: Why We Don't Give?
PDC-33: Giving: The Donor Fatigue
PDC-34: Giving: Is there an Upper Limit of Charity?
PDC-35: Giving: Dealing with Donor Fatigue: The Third Habit

 

To be continued...

 

The next two topics:
PDC-6: The PDC Series: The Bird's Eye View - 2
PDC-7: The Boundaries and the Disclaimers

 

Thanks,
Rajesh Vargheese
St. Gregorios Orthodox Church, Austin, TX