I said that today I’d write a little bit about my new project for 2012. Well, as you’ve probably guessed from the post title, it’s (currently) called ‘The Charity Centre‘.
The idea is simple: the website will act as a ‘database’ of sorts for charities and other non-profit organisations, big and small, from the UK and abroad. It’s actually a blog, and so what I’m hoping to do is create a post for each organisation, which will act as the ‘database entries’. These posts will (hopefully) be short interviews with people working for the respective organisations. Basically, I’m going to send out a bunch of e-mails over the coming weeks to get an idea as to which organisations are interested. If enough are, then I’ll send out questionnaires for them to fill in. These completed questionnaires will be the articles that I then put up on the site. It’s really as simple as that: basic information about a whole bunch of non-profit organisations, written by people working for them.
Of course, nothing is ever completely straightforward, and I’m depending on interest and cooperation from these organisations to get the project properly off the ground. After all, if nobody’s willing to fill out the questionnaires, there’ll be nothing to post. In an ideal world, all the people I e-mail will be happy to spend a few minutes filling out the questionnaires and I’ll have plenty of content for the site, and it may turn out to be a valuable resource for some people. I guess you need to go into projects like this with a little bit of hope and optimism, as otherwise they won’t work. I really want this one to work, though, so I’m going to give it my best shot.
