# New service for US nonprofits to expand into Europe

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/11/02/new-service-us-nonprofits-expand-europe/
- Published: 2007-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Affinity Connected have launched a service to enable voluntary organisations in 
the United States to expand in to Europe.
The integrated design, print, marketing
and fundraising agency is able to help nonprofits with registration with the Charity
Commission and associated documentation, fundraising and business strategy in the
UK and Europe, and the recruitment of Trustee Board members and management staff.

 

 

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Other services include locating premises, corporate identity, marketing strategy,
design and print management, and procurement expertise.

 

 

Chief Executive Richard Evans explained the need for the service. “Throughout the
world organisations try to establish themselves in different parts of the world 
without truly understanding business culture, traditions, etiquette and the way 
things are generally done. This becomes extremely costly and for the sake of perhaps
considering partnering up with allies in that particular part of the world they 
could have saved themselves a lot of time and money.”

 

 

He mentioned one American nonprofit “who managed to really upset the Charity Commission
with a fundraising campaign, and for good reason”. Their supplier contacted him 
at the last minute to see if he knew anybody who could them. “So I introduced them
to the best contacts I had in the UK voluntary sector representing all areas from
accountants to lawyers, and academics”.

 

 

Until that point, the nonprofit’s legal bills had run “in to the hundreds of thousands
of dollars which could have been easily avoided had they formed close relationships
with the right people from day one of trading in the UK”.

 

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