(The fee covers the following cost items: Ten O’clock tea/snacks, buffet lunches, water, writing materials, four O’clock coffees and certificate).
Participants: Executive Directors of INGOs/NGOs, Program Coordinators, managers and Officers, Directors of Partnerships and Networking, Revenue Officers, Grant Coordinators, Head of Fund Raising and Partnerships in Universities, UN Agencies To maximize training outcomes, we recommend organizations to send staff from
Program, Finance.
Course Introduction
The donor landscape is changing, priorities are shifting, and funding opportunities are shrinking. As we witness the mushrooming of local and international NGOs, the competition for limited resources continues to intensify. Organizations that are not able to position themselves well are likely to lose relevance in the short run.
Organizations must adopt approaches with radical transformation in the way we think and act as far as fundraising is concerned. The workshop will illuminate the landscape of development partners, shifting financing priorities, trending headlines, and strategic positioning. Explore organization opportunities to attract domestic, regional, international and private projects and programs.
As they say, “Theory guides practice but practice corrects theory”-participants to this training, through the opportunities created by having a very diverse participation, learn how to apply fund raising principles which suit their own unique situation to create resilient organizations. When you participate in this forum and apply even a few of the skills gained, there would be demonstrable change in the resource in the funding situation in your organization.
Specific Objectives
- Explore strategies for program funding amidst a context of decreasing commitments from traditional large donors
- To equip staff responsible for fundraising with requisite tools, skills and approaches to create conditions for successful fundraising, to expand access to diverse sources of donor funds and overall improvement of long-term organization financial sustainability.
- To demonstrate a good understanding of financing flows in the organization structure and logically incorporating country, including public, private, national and international sources, to strategically leverage them for sustainable development projects.
- To sufficiently demonstrate familiarity with frameworks and tools to develop strategic partnerships including with the private sector.
- To adequately learn innovations and best practices, behavioral, insights for financing Fundraising to provide impactful programming.
- Identify practical strategies for planning and running impactful fundraising campaigns.
- Demonstrate competencies to evaluate and audit Fund Raising outcomes
- Personalization in Fundraising with Artificial Intelligence-AI
Course Outline
- Mastering the Fundraising Environment
- Setting It Straight! -Basic Principles of Fundraising
- The Donor Journey: Donor Mapping-Understanding and Engaging Your Supporters”
- Developing and Refining Fundraising Ideas-Cost, Effort, Impact
- Fundraising 101: Modern Strategies for Maximum Impact
- Embedding The Power of “Tiny Habits” in Organizational Fundraising –Clear, Compelling Vision, Consistent Communication, Professional Follow UP.
- How to Apply the “3cs Principle in Fundraising-Commitment, Connection, Capacity
- Securing Local Funding for Your Cause – How to Build a Powerful Campaign
- Data-Driven Fundraising: How to Use Analytics for fundraising Results “
- The Power of Storytelling: Crafting “Compelling Fundraising Narratives”
- Fundraising with AI – Maximizing Your Organization’s Digital Presence”
- The case for Mastering Grant Writing in Fundraising: How to Write & Present a Grant Winning Project Proposal
- Fundraising for Events—Planning and Executing Successful Events-local/international
- Developing Collaborative Fundraising Networks and Partnerships
- Leadership and Collaboration-Building a Strong Fundraising Team
- Planning for the Future-Sealing the Gap
Training Methodology
Dynamic, creative, participant-centered, practical, interactive, interesting adult learning methodologies and diverse media are applied to lift the participants to high levels of proficiency. After-training, follow-up and remedial coaching will be offered to interested participants on request for free.