Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Making it Happen

1998

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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION TO MAKING IT HAPPEN
   • Implementation
   • Training goals
   • Objectives
2. TEAMWORK
   • Working groups
   • Associations with other groups
   • Committees
   • Task forces
   • Conflicts
3. BUDGETING
   • What is a budget?
   • Why prepare a budget?
   • How to prepare a budget?
     1. Gathering the necessary information
     2. Preparing a draft budget
     3. Approving the final budget
   • Example of a budget
   • Do you have a good budget?
4. ACCOUNTING
   • What is accounting?
   • Why keep books?
   • How to start?
   • Current operations and bookkeeping
     1. Petty cash
     2. The expenditures journal
     3. The revenue journal
     4. Accounting with a general journal
   • Double accounting
   • Assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses
   • Knowing your financial situation
     1. Statement of income and expenditures
     2. Bank reconciliation
     3. Balance sheet
   • Debit and credit
5. PROMOTION
   • What is a promotion program?
   • Social marketing
   • Using a variety of promotional tools
     1. Printed material
        1. Annual reports
        2. Newsletters
        3. Pamphlets and bulletins
     2. Tools for communicating with journalists
        1. Press kits
        2. Press releases
        3. Press conferences
     3. Television
     4. Radio
     5. Audio-visual tools
     6. Advertisements
     7. Sponsors
     8. Lobby and pressure groups
     9. Briefs
        1. Preparing and writing a brief
        2. Presenting a brief
     10. Public activities
         1. Information meetings and lunch-time lectures
         2. Panels
         3. Public lectures and presentations
         4. Information booths and display cases
         5. Promotional material