The development of a successful strategy to make contact with potential donors is vital in the process of securing funding for your NGO. First of all, you will have to compile lists of funding bodies that are most likely to become interested in your NGO’s activities; its aims, goals, and strategies. In order to do so, you will have to browse the Internet. Start from researching websites of the main agencies such as the UN and look up the various networks they sponsor or maintain to find potential interested parties. Another strategy to find potential donors is to constantly monitor calls for proposals or concept papers. In fact, even if you are not intending to apply for a specific call, it is important that you file relevant information from the donors in case you want to contact them in the future and when needed.
It is helpful to prepare a filing system in which you will index and archive all this information about relevant funding bodies. This filing system will be shared among those working in the NGO and it will represent the first document to be consulted throughout the year or whenever needed. This archive of donors should be consistently updated, so it will be useful to assign the task to one person. This person will constantly monitor call for proposals and the activities of agencies working in your field and in your region to enlarge the archive as well as to inform the group at large of any relevant change in the donors’ strategies.
Contact Information of Donor Agencies
The filing system will be arranged in two main sections: institutional donors and private donors. In the first section you will list governmental agencies supporting civil society and also the main development agencies such as those part of the UN family or directly funded by the EU or the United States. The second section will collect information in regards to private foundations, research institutes, and other private ventures interested in financially supporting grassroots initiatives.
For each potential donor you will list the following information: name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, main fields of action (for instance, whether they fund projects to train young people, agrarian development, post-conflict reconstruction or projects targeting gender equality). It is also important to add information in regards of the most recent projects funded by this organisation and summarise the goals, methodology, and outputs of said projects. Add a list of the NGOs they have already worked with. This last part will come in handy if you decide to approach them. In fact, by assessing the capacity and performance of the organisations they have funded, you will be able to understand whether your organisation is likely to interest them or not.
In order to find all the relevant details you will need to browse donors’ websites or to research the material made available on the Internet by organisations such as the UN or the governmental agencies of your country, which might have already gathered such information to support civil society actors working regionally.
The archdiocese of Tororo is the catholic church doing God’s work in the eastern region of uganda.It has an education department(commission) that takes care of school from primary to tertiary.
Funds are required to equip these schools with educational materials as well as building maintenance and repair. The education department of the archdiocese of tororo in looking for partners to do God’s work in education.
Your are welcome to partner with us.
My name is Daniel Klopp and I have served as Founder & Executive Director of two NGO’s here in Peru, South America, to advocate for the marginalized communities of Peru, South America. We are branching out in our outreach to meet the needs of those adolescents that have been abandoned due to their sexuality orientation. What can we do as an NGO to provide outreach resources, shelter, food, water, etc… We are struggling right now with the violent interaction between drug cartels, gang violence, and sex trade.
We are looking for cooperate & institutional donors & looking for resources and answers of how to go about making these transitions in our humanitarian outreach targets. I am desiring to branch out into the “humanitarian perspective” to reach these individuals who have been judged based on their sexual orientation, sexual abuse, and human trafficking.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated,
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The Rural Peoples Foundation is non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organized based in Jaman North District of Brong Ahafo of Ghana. The organization is registered the following institutions, Registrar General’s Department and Social Welfare Department. Our mission is to undertake developmental and innovative programs and interventions towards reaching the un-reached, relieve the poor and distressed and support the vulnerable through education, care and support services, rehabilitation and empowerment. The organization is contributing to the achievements of the national targets of reducing malaria morbidity and mortality in the communities within the Jaman North District in the year, ensuring that 85% of those at risk of malaria, particularly, the pregnant women and children under five, have access to the suitable and affordable combination of personal and community protective measure such as Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) use, IPT uptake, prompt and effective treatment for malaria.
The organization is looking for partner to support its activities.
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The Rural Education and Development Program (REDEP) is an all-volunteer non- governmental, non-profit organization based in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District in the Central Region of Ghana where it works. The organization was granted NGO status by the Department of Social Welfare in April, 2001. REDEP is engaged in activities that bring hope to the people it serves through community development program that help fill the needs of the people for Health, Education, Environment and Livelihood (hence the acronym ‘HEEL’). Our HEEL programs have the goals of (1) improving the level of health care available in the district (including education in HIV/AIDS), (2) providing instruction and assistance in developing good environmental practices, (3) assisting in the public education process by helping students to stay in school as long as possible, and encouraging those that can to become teachers in the district, and (4) helping people to develop marketable skills and become productive members of their communities
REDEP is looking for partners who will support its activities. Funders and partners are willingly welcome. Please feel free to contact us.
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