Bid Writing, Fundraising and Volunteering Workshops

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Bid Writing: The Basics


 Do you know the most common reasons for rejection? Are you gathering the right 
evidence? Are you making the right arguments? Are you using the right 
terminology? Are your numbers right? Are you learning from rejections? 

Are you assembling the right documents? Do you know how to create a clear and 
concise standard funding bid? Are you communicating with people or just 
excluding them? Do you know your own organisation well enough? 

Are you thinking through your projects carefully enough? Do you know enough 
about your competitors? Are you answering the questions funders will ask 
themselves about your application? Are you submitting applications correctly?
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
10.00 TO 12.30
COST £95.00
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MON 12 APR 2021
MON 26 APR 2021
MON 10 MAY 2021
MON 24 MAY 2021
MON 07 JUN 2021
MON 21 JUN 2021
MON 05 JUL 2021
MON 19 JUL 2021




Bid Writing: Advanced

 Are you applying to the right trusts? Are you applying to enough trusts? Are 
you asking for the right amount of money? Are you applying in the right ways? 
Are your projects the most fundable projects? 

Are you carrying out trust fundraising in a professional way? Are you 
delegating enough work? Are you highly productive or just very busy? Are you 
looking for trusts in all the right places? 

How do you compare with your competitors for funding? Is the rest of your 
fundraising hampering your bids to trusts? Do you understand what trusts are 
ideally looking for?
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10.00 TO 12.30
COST £95.00
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TUE 13 APR 2021
TUE 27 APR 2021
TUE 11 MAY 2021
TUE 25 MAY 2021
TUE 08 JUN 2021
TUE 22 JUN 2021
TUE 06 JUL 2021
TUE 20 JUL 2021



Major Donor Fundraising

 Major Donor Characteristics, Motivations and Requirements. Researching and 
Screening Major Donors. Encouraging, Involving and Retaining Major Donors.

Building Relationships with Major Donors. Major Donor Events and Activities. 
Setting Up Major Donor Clubs. Asking For Major Gifts. Looking After and 
Reporting Back to Major Donors.  
 
Delivering on Major Donor Expectations. Showing Your Appreciation to Major 
Donors. Fundraising Budgets and Committees.   
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10.00 TO 12.30
COST £95
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WED 14 APR 2021
WED 09 JUN 2021



Corporate Fundraising 

Who are these companies? Why do they get involved? What do they like? What can 
you get from them? What can you offer them? What are the differences between 
donations, sponsorship, advertising and cause related marketing? 

Are companies just like trusts? How do you find these companies? How do you 
research them? How do you contact them? How do you pitch to them? How do you 
negotiate with them? 

When should you say no? How do you draft contracts? How do you manage the 
relationships? What could go wrong? What are the tax issues? What are the legal 
considerations?
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
10.00 TO 12.30
COST £95
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THU 29 APR 2021
WED 23 JUN 2021



Recruiting and Managing Volunteers
 Where do you find volunteers? How do you find the right volunteers? How do you 
attract volunteers? How do you run volunteer recruitment events? How do you 
interview volunteers? 

How do you train volunteers? How do you motivate volunteers? How do you involve 
volunteers? How do you recognise volunteers? How do you recognise problems with 
volunteers? How do you learn from volunteer problems? 

How do you retain volunteers? How do you manage volunteers? What about 
volunteers and your own staff? What about younger, older and employee 
volunteers?

ONLINE VIA ZOOM
10.00 TO 12.30
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THU 13 MAY 2021
WED 07 JUL 2021



Legacy Fundraising 

Why do people make legacy gifts? What are the ethical issues? What are the 
regulations? What are the tax issues? What are the statistics? What are the 
trends? How can we integrate legacy fundraising into our other fundraising? 

What are the sources for research? How should we set a budget? How should we 
evaluate our results? How should we forecast likely income? Should we use 
consultants? How should we build a case for support? 

What media and marketing channels should we use? What about in memory giving? 
How should we setup our admin systems? What are the common problems & pitfalls?
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10.00 TO 12.30
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THU 27 MAY 2021
WED 21 JUL 2021



Feedback From Past Attendees
I must say I was really impressed with the course and the content. My knowledge 
and confidence has increased hugely. I got a lot from your course and a lot of 
pointers! 
I can say after years of fundraising I learnt so much from your bid writing 
course. It was a very informative day and for someone who has not written bids 
before I am definitely more confident to get involved with them. 
I found the workshops very helpful. It is a whole new area for me but the 
information 

[PATCH] MINOR: opentracing: register config file and line number on log servers

[Miroslav Zagorac]

Hello,

due to the modified function declaration, the opentracing filter can no 
longer be compiled.


In commit 9533a7038 new parameters have been added to the declaration
of function parse_logsrv().

This patch should be backported to all branches where the OpenTracing
filter is located.

--
Zaga

What can change the nature of a man?
>From baae10ef8a2eb487328664a3ff04475cd5d76179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Zagorac 
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:14:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MINOR: opentracing: register config file and line number on
 log servers

In commit 9533a7038 new parameters have been added to the declaration
of function parse_logsrv().

This patch should be backported to all branches where the OpenTracing
filter is located.
---
 addons/ot/src/parser.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/addons/ot/src/parser.c b/addons/ot/src/parser.c
index b53d58d44..c7522e942 100644
--- a/addons/ot/src/parser.c
+++ b/addons/ot/src/parser.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int flt_ot_parse_cfg_tracer(const char *file, int linenum, char **args, i
 		}
 	}
 	else if (pdata->keyword == FLT_OT_PARSE_TRACER_LOG) {
-		if (parse_logsrv(args, &(flt_ot_current_tracer->proxy_log.logsrvs), kw_mod == KWM_NO, &err_log) == 0) {
+		if (parse_logsrv(args, &(flt_ot_current_tracer->proxy_log.logsrvs), kw_mod == KWM_NO, file, linenum, &err_log) == 0) {
 			FLT_OT_PARSE_ERR(&err, "'%s %s ...' : %s", args[0], args[1], err_log);
 			FLT_OT_FREE_CLEAR(err_log);
 
-- 
2.30.1

Re: [PATCH] MINOR: opentracing: register config file and line number on log servers

[Илья Шипицин]

do you consider adding opentracing to "github actions" CI ?

ср, 7 апр. 2021 г. в 14:35, Miroslav Zagorac :

> Hello,
>
> due to the modified function declaration, the opentracing filter can no
> longer be compiled.
>
> In commit 9533a7038 new parameters have been added to the declaration
> of function parse_logsrv().
>
> This patch should be backported to all branches where the OpenTracing
> filter is located.
>
> --
> Zaga
>
> What can change the nature of a man?
>

Re: [PATCH] MINOR: opentracing: register config file and line number on log servers

[Miroslav Zagorac]

On 04/07/2021 12:13 PM, Илья Шипицин wrote:

do you consider adding opentracing to "github actions" CI ?



Hello Илья,

I don't know how to add it because I never used it.  The filter uses 
specific libraries that are not part of the system but need to be 
installed and/or compiled independently.


Best regards,

--
Zaga

What can change the nature of a man?

Re: [PATCH] MINOR: opentracing: register config file and line number on log servers

[Илья Шипицин]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 2:16 PM Miroslav Zagorac  wrote:

> On 04/07/2021 12:13 PM, Илья Шипицин wrote:
> > do you consider adding opentracing to "github actions" CI ?
> >
>
> Hello Илья,
>
> I don't know how to add it because I never used it.  The filter uses
> specific libraries that are not part of the system but need to be
> installed and/or compiled independently.
>

we run "all features anebled" gcc and clang builds, for example
BUG/MINOR: tools: fix parsing "us" unit for timers ·
haproxy/haproxy@a683805 (github.com)


if
additional libraries are easy to install (building will increase total time
a lot), I'd add opentracing to those "all features" builds

>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Zaga
>
> What can change the nature of a man?
>

Re: zlib vs slz (perfoarmance)

[Dinko Korunic]

> […]
> 
> 
> Hi Lukas,
> 
> I am maintaining haproxytech Docker images and I can easily make that (slz 
> being used) happen, if that’s what community would like to see.
> 

Hi,

Given quite a few positive responses from community about including SLZ by 
default, all new haproxytech/haproxy* Docker images have SLZ enabled and 
statically linked in the haproxy binary.


Kind regards,
D.

-- 
Dinko Korunic   ** Standard disclaimer applies **
Sent from OSF1 osf1v4b V4.0 564 alpha

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Additional ist functions

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Tim,

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 05:53:53PM +0200, Tim Duesterhus wrote:
> Willy,
> 
> some more `ist` helper functions that allows consumers to avoid directly
> operating on the raw pointer, instead using safe high level functions.
> 
> These will be used in a future series of mine. I'm sending them for early
> review and integration, because I believe their existence is useful on its
> own.

Overall it all looks good so I've merged it. I'd just have one small
request regarding istappend(), it's the first really unsafe function
we have in this collection that could be used inside a loop and cause
buffer overflows, especially since ist strings are designed to be
easier to use than plain strings (i.e. users care less). I'm prefectly
fine with having unsafe functions but not with a default name, so I'd
rather have __istappend() that the caller knows he wants to use and
takes the responsibility for, and istappend() that adds the length
check against an extra argument "size" as a few other functions do
in this case (e.g. istcat() uses a count argument for this).

No emergency but since I guess you're using them in your code, it would
be nice that your first caller uses either a secured or explicit version.

Thanks!
Willy

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Additional ist functions

[Willy Tarreau]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:56:58PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> No emergency but since I guess you're using them in your code, it would
> be nice that your first caller uses either a secured or explicit version.

And by the way I forgot to say, I like the idea of the istsplit(), it
could make string tokenizing easier in many cases :-)

Willy

[HAP 2.4-dev] Quotes in str fetch sample

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi.

I try to implement "sample_fetch_json_string" based on 
https://github.com/cesanta/mjson.
My current test looks good but I'm struggling with the test setup.

```
git-repos/haproxy$ ./haproxy -c -f ../test-haproxy.conf
[NOTICE] 097/012132 (1043229) : haproxy version is 2.4-dev15-8daf8d-30
[NOTICE] 097/012132 (1043229) : path to executable is ./haproxy
[ALERT] 097/012132 (1043229) : parsing [../test-haproxy.conf:9] : error 
detected in frontend 'fe1' while parsing
'http-request set-var(req.json)' rule : fetch method 'str' : expected ')' before 
',\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/namespace\":\"openshift-logging\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/secret.name\":\"deployer-token-m98xh\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-account.name\":\"deployer\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-account.uid\":\"35dddefd-3b5a-11e9-947c-fa163e480910\",\"sub\":\"system:serviceaccount:openshift-logging:deployer\"})'.

[ALERT] 097/012132 (1043229) : Error(s) found in configuration file : 
../test-haproxy.conf

```

That's the config.
```
defaults
mode http
timeout connect 1s
timeout client  1s
timeout server  1s

frontend fe1
bind "127.0.0.1:8080"
http-request set-var(req.json)  
'str({\"iss\":\"kubernetes/serviceaccount\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/namespace\":\"openshift-logging\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/secret.name\":\"deployer-token-m98xh\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-account.name\":\"deployer\",\"kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-account.uid\":\"35dddefd-3b5a-11e9-947c-fa163e480910\",\"sub\":\"system:serviceaccount:openshift-logging:deployer\"})'

```

I have tried several combos like.
str("...")
str('...')
str(...)
I have also added more '\' in the string.

But I get always the error above.

Any Idea how to fix the error?

Regards
Alex