fundsforngos.org is providing a funding opportunity to small NGOs and NGO networks in developing countries to through the Small Grant Prize. Organizations can get nominated or submit their own nominations in order to participate in this small grant support.
The objective of this Small Grant Prize is to raise awareness about various activities of fundsforngos.org that ultimately lead to improve the capacity of NGOs and help them become financially sustainable.
Only registered NGOs and active Networks in good standing are eligible to receive the prize (an exception can be made for NGOs active in countries where it is not possible to legally register).
The Small Grant Prize does not seek any lengthy proposals or concept notes, but simply requests applicants to fill out a short registration form. The winners will be selected on a lucky draw basis.
Two winning NGOs or Networks will receive a cash award of $500 each and technical support in fundraising and management in terms of free participation in our webinars. In addition to the two winning NGOs or Networks, we will also select 10 runners up who will also get free participation to the webinars. The webinars are offered by skilled trainers offering advice on raising funds for NGOs and other areas of capacity development.
The deadline to participate in the Small Grant Prize is 1 April 2012. For more information, visit this link.
hi i am ahmed hussain from Pakistan i am a founder president of voice of nation human rights of Pakistan now i request you about funds we have a lots of programes but we don’t have a funds so please kindly contact me asap
I would like to your kind attention that we are a community based NGO)called(Pan African Relief&Development Organisation)we are based in UK, but most of our good causes were mainly aimed for East Africa.
Our organisation provides a wide range of charitale activities such as;
Education, Health, Water/Saniations, Youth development,Women Issues and support,HIV/AIDS, Agricultural and food production,Environment protection, Peace development/Democracy, nd awareness on Climate changes etc.
Therefore, we kindly nominate the founder(Mr.Mahdi Aadam)and Pan African Relief& Development organisation for the your noble Award.
Thanks for your consideration and understanding.
Mrs. D.J. Guleeed (Trustee)
Pan African Relief&Development Organisation
74 Goldhawk Road London, W12 8HA
I want to nomination for small grant prize for NGOs so how and where applied
Thank you for the informations. Looking forward our involvement in the fund raising. :Expecting good guidance in raising funds for the environment conservation activities. Reducing carbon dioxide.
Since last we had filled our registration form of OIFC. The 1000 characters when we send it is not through why?
I Need help for funds equipments to build health unit
I have to commend fundsforngos.org for this initiative since it will go a long way to help small ngos and networks in developing countries which have a lot to do but have little or no access to funding.
Good one there
hey we are glowing CSO working for community Development kindly hellp us how to take funds form donor
Community Based Care Foundation (CBCF) founded by George Simuyemba Munyama an HIV/AIDS activist operate as a Charity non-Profit making organization that strive to improve the quality of life of families affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty. The Foundation was established as a result of community initiative to response to the impact of HIV/AIDS among households in the area. Community Based Care Foundation is a registered NGO in accordance with the Societies Rules (Section (2) of Societies Act Cap 119) with Certificate of Registration No. ORS/102/93/79.
In 2006, George identified a drama group of women working with the local rural health center in disseminating malaria, HIV/AIDS/STI’s/TB preventive information in the Malole area. This drama group called Malole Home Based Care showed interest and shared the same vision of improving the quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children by strengthening capacity of families to improve their livelihoods. We started by assisting chronically ill patients in their homes through counseling to reduce strong fear of death as a result of the disease (AIDS), stigma and discrimination. In our own small way, we also provided food and sanitary facilities to assist these households. It was not an easy task, as most of the affected households could not accept the volunteers to visit their homes for fear of being labeled as “AIDS households”. In 2007, we started full time support to orphans and vulnerable children and their families by providing education assistance to OVC, food and material support as well as agro-inputs with funding from Firelight Foundation.
In 2010, Stephen Lewis Foundation came on board and funded CBCF’s organizational capacity strengthening and activities that saw CBCF start supporting more women groups with more activities that includedBasic Facts of HIV/AIDS, Nutrition Demonstrations, Savings and Internal Lending in Communities. Community Based Care Foundation draws its strength from the Christian teachings (Isaiah 49 v 14 – 15) “But the people of Jerusalem said, the Lord has abandoned us! He has forgotten us. So the Lord answers, Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child. I will not forget you”.
The main objective of Community Based Care Foundation is to provide HIV/AIDS preventive information, education and communication services to individuals, families and communities, and to improve the quality of life of people by providing care and support services to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS pandemic and Poverty in order for them to realize their potential in development process. The major activities under this programme include; (1) HIV and AIDS Awareness creation (2) Food and Materials support as a short-term emergency relief, (3) Sustainable economic/material empowerment, (4) Informal life skills training, (5) Education support, (6) Youth sports and recreation, (7) Adolescent reproductive health and (8) Advocacy.
1.0 Vision
“A healthy, productive and empowered HIV and AIDS free generation with effective action to address the severe impact of HIV and AIDS and poverty on the local population”
2.0 Mission Statement
“To improve the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children and people living with HIV and AIDS to realize their full potential as well as strengthen capacity of families affected by HIV and AIDS to achieve sustainable economic levels to meet their needs.”
3.0 Other Objectives include:
1. To intensify HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns and information dissemination to the local communities.
2. To raise awareness of child abuse among families and communities.
3. To assist orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) and people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) to take pride in themselves, restore their dignity and strengthen their self-esteem.
4. To provide sustainable economic/material support to families affected by HIV and AIDS
5. To provide direct support to vulnerable children and families affected by HIV and AIDS.
6. To build and strengthen organization capacity to sustain the response
7. To build and strengthen community structures, including volunteers and caregiver networks to sustain the response.
8. To provide emotional support and coping mechanisms to those people who are undergoing difficult times in their lives, and are willing to be part of a support group.
9. To provide information to its members so that they can understand the disease and be able to educate their family members, friends, colleagues, neighbours about the disease.
10. To share information around treatment, care and healing as well as drawing strength from other members experiences.
11. To encourage people living with HIV and AIDS and their families to establish viable income generating activities.
12. To educate people about antiretroviral medication and to encourage people to keep taking their medication.
13. To build a social network of people with similar problems.
14. To ensure that a person living with HIV and AIDS can live a positive and productive life.
15. To empower members with knowledge about HIV and AIDS and help them develop skills.
16. To create networking opportunities for those involved in the support group.
NICHE – Strategic Comparative based on mission
Community Based Care Foundation areas of operation;
1) Facilitate formation of functional women’s clubs and support groups to work with
2) HIV and AIDS community based prevention, care and support;
3) Sustainable economic/material support to both PLWHA and OVC households;
4) Adult Civic education;
5) OVC access to education and/or skills training;
6) PLWHA and OVC food supplements and nutrition, shelter, toiletries, clothing;
7) PLWHA and OVC psychosocial and spiritual support;
8) OVC reproductive health education
Principles and Values
1. include Christian teachings in its emotional and spiritual counseling programmes.
2. uphold human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS.
3. ensure that all people living with HIV and AIDS regardless of household status, have equal access to economic and social services that they need.
4. provide support that will have a very long term positive effect on the improvement of people living with HIV and AIDS and their families.
5. ensure the organization’s success by providing clear strategic direction and sound management.
6. provide active leadership of the organization within a framework of effective checks and balances.
7. uphold gender concerns in all its project programming.
8. ensure that the interests of beneficiaries are always at the centre of the organization’s thinking and work.
9. safeguard the organization’s (financial and human) resources.
10. uphold and respect confidentiality.
11. every child regardless of race, creed, country or other factor has all rights as outlined in the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” and should be adhered to in order to have a healthy and productive generation.
4.0 The Board
Community Based Care Foundation has a functional board of five members in place that Develops, establishes, and periodically reviews the organization Mission, long term goals and operational approaches in order to accomplish the set objectives.
5.0 Project Implementation:
The project starts with Sensitization of local communities on HIV/AIDS after which a Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) campaign are conducted at local Rural Health centers and further mobile VCT are conducted. Individuals who are tested and found positive are then linked to health centers for ARV treatment services. Further counseling is conducted to these individuals and encouraged to form support groups that will play a key role in the dissemination of HIV/AIDS prevention care and support information and strengthen these support groups for them to provide the necessary production materials in order to improve the quality of life and exercise self-determination depending on their area of locality. These groups are then given training in various aspects of community development and supported with high nutritional value seeds for the purpose of multiplication, such as soya beans, groundnuts and common beans as well as other income generating activities.
These groups undergo a series of capacity building trainings to empower the communities with the necessary skills for creating entrepreneurship culture that could promote self-reliance and employment. HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns will be conducted simultaneously to disseminate up-to-date HIV and AIDS information to the local communities that promotes behavioural change on individuals as the core of decision-making, attitude and behavioural formation, and ones ability to adapt to new norms that would stop the spread of the pandemic.
Individual community members are encouraged to make a bold step to be tested as it really is about ones life as a person. With diminishing donor funding due to change in policy, creation of sustainable empowerment to up-coming community based organizations like ours is paramount. Community Based Care Foundation intends to venture into sustainable business to generate funds for self-sustenance of its programmes.
Community Based Care Foundation has well experienced staff who have worked with the rural remote communities in community development including traditional and culture ceremonies making it easier for them to deliver services in an acceptable manner. Where Community Based Care Foundation does not meet the necessary expertise required to empower the communities, other stakeholders like health personnel, agri-business officers, entrepreneur experts are called to facilitate. Therefore, synergizing to compliment a diverse of multiple activities is cardinal in project implementation.
7.0 Approaches:
Community Based Care Foundation’s response has recognized the importance of reconciliation within families and communities as a first step in addressing HIV/AIDS, and the need to include families rather than to isolate individuals. The inclusion of families has meant developing an approach to confidentiality that respects an individual’s right to privacy but includes the family and community in the overall response. The person living with HIV always determines whether to share confidentiality, which may be non-verbal, by acknowledging HIV in the family.
Responding to HIV first means acknowledging it. Community members may recognize the presence of HIV and know of people and families within their community who are affected, but they may not be able to speak openly about it. In communities where there is no open response, there is often suspicion that families are affected, but community members do not know how to react, and without facilitation of acknowledgment and acceptance, witchcraft, stigma and discrimination is the order of the day.
The same can happen within families, especially if HIV is not discussed which leads to fear of people who are affected. Facilitating an open acceptance of this hidden knowledge is a central part of a constructive response. Openness does not mean informing other people of individuals who are affected; rather it means enabling a community or family to come to terms with HIV in its midst rather than denying it. In Malole, for example, active caregivers have noted a significant change: “The community and clergy leadership who are the entry point into the communities gave facilitated to go around the communities. Before, people said there was this disease and they could not talk about it. Now, many people have accepted and are talking about it.” The community also requested that testing be made available through the Community Based Care Foundation facilitation and not at the local rural health centre for the purpose of confidentiality.
Home care is integral to community facilitation approach and is based on the philosophy of reaching out to people in their own environment. For Community Based Care Foundation Programme, home visits are integral to community acknowledgment and are therefore an essential part of community development. The aim of home visits is to help people change their behavior to prevent the further spread of HIV and to cope with the consequences. Home visits help link people affected by HIV to the wider community through their inclusion in community conversations or in community counseling meetings. Accompaniment and spiritual support from any religious domination of the clients’ choice are valued even if nothing else is available.
The idea that children who are orphaned should be put in institutions like orphanages does not exist here in the rural areas. When facing issues such as the illness and possible death of their parents, children already deal with an enormous amount of stress. Moving them to an unfamiliar environment, away from their relatives, school and their friends and the neighbourhood they know, may only compound this problem for them. Community Based Care Foundation approaches this problem in a way that builds on extended family systems by including the whole family on the support pack.
As a matter of advocacy and practical demonstration to uphold the rights of the children and invest in these children in order to mold them into health, productive and responsible citizens, Community Based Care Foundation came up with a program to care and support to these orphaned and vulnerable children who miss out on the social services such as health, education, cultural upbringing and the love that children in other partsof the world enjoy or even take for granted within their families/communities. The support to these children is also extended to the rest of their families. Children are supported in ways that help them to stay as part of their family and community.
The greatest impact of HIV is on young people. Many children whose parents are ill now are likely to become ill themselves in later years. In their childhood they get little emotional and material support and they often have to start playing roles that are usually expected from adults. In many families they play the adult role of maintaining the house and sometimes even trying to provide an income. Most of them play some nursing role and directly look after the parents who are ill. Older children also play the parent role to their younger siblings.
When parents die, very small children are often taken in by relatives. The survival of older children is often neglected and they are more vulnerable. In many cases, older children drop out of school to look after younger siblings when they are not provided for by relatives. Some end up barely surviving in very impoverished homes. These young people often end up being abused, or drift into gangs, early marriages, unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, prostitution, and crime. Therefore, home visits by caregivers in targeted households are essential in addressing the issues of children and the family as a whole.
8.0 Community Participation
It should be made clear that the identification of basic felt needs in a community like ours is not an easy process. The identification of needs felt by a group of people implies that individuals have compared their thoughts and feelings and arrived at a certain degree of consensus. Community participation in planning, implementation and monitoring of project activities tends to create a stronger sense of commitment to, and ownership of, the activities and programmes. Without commitment and ownership, sustainability of projects and/or activities is unlikely to occur. All the target clubs/groups are involved in the planning process and the activities identified are agreed upon as stepping stones to be used in addressing their immediately problems being experienced. MHBC also involve the children that it serves in brain storming of relevant activities that would address their needs and consequently contribute to the attainment of the clear set goals.
9.0 Some of the Achievements:
1. Community Based Care Foundation continues to disseminate HIV/AIDS information to the local communities.
2. Community Based Care Foundation has trained four (4) support groups in Basic Facts of HIV and AIDS.
3. Community Based Care Foundation has capacity built 6 support groups in Leadership and group management training
4. Community Based Care Foundation has supported 280 households keeping orphans with food, blankets and materials as well as providing agro-inputs within their families.
5. Community Based Care Foundation has supported 180 pupils with school fess, uniforms and other school requisites.
6. Community Based Care Foundation is running a carpentry workshop to train OVC in life skills
7. Community Based Care Foundation has encouraged people living with HIV and AIDS to form a support group for them to share information around prevention and treatment.
8. Community Based Care Foundation has introduced a Savings and Internal Lending in Communities (SILC) to 4 Support groups.
9. Community Based Care Foundation is currently facilitating MTN Mobile Money service to the local communities where people could save, sent and receive money through their cell phones.
10. Community Based Care Foundation is currently running broiler production as income generating activity for the organization.
11. Community Based Care Foundation has facilitated the establishment of community school in Kangwa-Kaseka community to respond to Early Child Development.
We are managing a small NGO (SIM Foundation) who is working for community development in Pakistan. we will be thankful to your cooperation in this regards
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syed saghir