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Development Blogging: Some tips for NGOs

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We cannot deny the importance of internet, social media and blogging for organizations. These are integral parts of online marketing strategies of organizations in today’s digital age. For non-profits too, it is important to develop content for online platforms, and to utilize these media. A blog is a discussion or information portal, and is increasingly becoming the new face of expression, communication and also a form of journalism. Some advantages of blogging by development organizations are: increased traffic on your website, organizational positioning in the sector that is instrumental for image/ brand building, even promotion of your cause or campaign by interlinking web-pages. So, it is up to you how you make the most of your website and such platforms.

Some tips for non-profits who want to explore development blogging:

  1. Decide who will blog?

Some NGOs might have a communications team or dedicated person or team for managing social media presence of the organization, while some might not. In either case, it is worthwhile to discuss and decide who will blog for an NGO. It is not imperative that the communication team takes care of it. One needs to understand that a blog is a conversational piece with a pinch of personal opinion about a theme or topic. Thus, people in your organization, staff can blog on the website, but not on the behalf on the entire organization. This creative freedom must be given to the blogger, with of course, some moderation by the communication team, or the team that handles social media and website.

  1. Identify talent in your team:

NGOs would need to identify such talent within their teams, which may not be difficult. Discuss with your staff; check out their social media accounts and LinkedIn posts to identify such talent. Use a disclaimer on the blog page, if apprehensive about the organizational image, stating that ‘the views expressed are solely of the blogger/ author and do not represent the organization XXX’s opinion’.

  1. How often and about what?

Now the question arises, how often should someone blog, and about what. Discuss openly with the bloggers you have selected from your team or from outside, about what they want to write about. The overall theme may be associated with the organization’s cause, with myriad views. The author/ blogger must be conversant with the topic and must have good theoretical and practical knowledge about it. The frequency must be good enough to garner high number of hits.

  1. Write like you are talking- conversational style:

It is important to note that while good language skills are necessary for writing a blog, one must avoid using heavy words and jargon. A blog should have conversational style, and express one’s views and experiences about something in an interesting manner to engage the reader.

  1. Content with spin:

The content is of utmost importance in a blog, like in any other piece of writing. But the blogger needs to add a spin to the content, to make it much more interesting. A blog must be written in a reader-friendly style. An interesting title is also very important for a blog, one that evokes interest and curiosity. For example, ‘5 effective ways to lead your fundraising efforts’ as a title is way catchier than a plain ‘Methods of fundraising’.

  1. Remember- a picture speaks a thousand words:

To add both zing and quality to your blog, make sure to include lot of examples, pictures, videos, graphics, wherever possible. Give relevant links for further reading or examples to engage the reader better.

  1. Reply to comments:

Make sure you reply to the comments and feedback, and you do so fast! This will keep the blog alive, and readers will be engaged.

  1. Guest posts:

Encourage guest posts or guest blogs initially. A person, who is engaged like he is a part of family, is more likely to be loyal! Similar is the case with your online engagement strategies like blogs. Such people may later support your cause in more than one way in future, you never know!

  1. Interlinking with important campaigns/ projects of your organization:

You may wish to utilize the ‘hits’ on your blog page as a resource too, apart from engaging the readers. So, you may link your blog page with important campaigns/ projects of your organization. You can give web-links or tags on the blog page to guide the reader towards your campaigns or navigate to other pages.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for non-profits

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In this digital age, technology has the power of great positive transformation for organizations. Information and Communication technology (ICT) has been booming and non-profits have great opportunity to utilize ICT for internal systems strengthening and external stakeholder involvement and communication.

In the context of non-profits, the main areas where ICT can be applied are implementing digital infrastructure of the organization, application or implementation of programs, monitoring and evaluation, interpersonal communication, information dissemination, advocacy and many others. So, ICT can be disruptive for both internal information and communication system and external communication systems and impact, and engaging with multiple stakeholders.

A few steps for NGOs to utilize ICT for professional development and streamlining their work in the external stakeholder context:

  1. Preparing a comprehensive communications plan and calendar, with focus on social media and website for external communication
  2. Using the website and other social media applications for communicating impact
  3. Increasing e-presence for reaching out to potential donors and engaging them
  4. NGOs may consider outsourcing the IT since it will allow it to focus on the operations and programs, while letting the specialist people handle ICT related activities
  5. Maintaining consistency and sync between posts on Social Media and websites, and current activities and programs of the NGO. Posting and updating these can be daily or weekly or fortnightly as per the convenience and availability of resources.
  6. Blog can be a very effective tool to express to the World the activities of a non-profit. Some very popular platforms to blog may be WordPress, e-blogger, etc.
  7. It is very important to remember that ‘What cannot be measured, it cannot be managed’. Most of the platforms have built-in tools to measure interactions, page-visits or hits, etc. Monitoring these, identify trends and then acting upon them is very important.

Free PDF: How to frame Goals & Objectives in a Project Proposal

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Goals and objectives are an important component of a project proposal. It gives a clear idea about the proposed achievements of a project. However, developing and presenting them can be challenging if you are new writing a proposal. In this PDF, we are offering basic guidelines for NGOs on how to prepare effective goals and objectives in a standard proposal. This PDF is available for free and you can download it.

How to Frame Goals and Objectives

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Free Online Course: International Women’s Health and Human Rights

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The Stanford University’s free online course on International Women’s Health and Human Rights provides an overview of women’s health and human rights, beginning in infancy and childhood, then moving through adolescence, reproductive years and aging.

It has a focus on critical issues, namely those that may mean life or death to a woman, depending on whether she can exercise her human rights. These critical issues include: being born female and discrimination; poverty; unequal access to education, food, paid work and health care; and various forms of violence. Topics discussed include son preference, education, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, violence in the home and in war and refugee circumstances, women’s work, sex trafficking, and aging.

The course will have a special focus on creating an international network of engaged learners, practitioners, and activists. We will ask students to take part in interactive discussions and cooperative exercises and to share their own experiences. We also ask students to engage with the communities they live in, in order to deepen their understanding of the issues and tie academic ideas to real-life circumstances.

Lectures, interviews with expert scholars and NGO leaders, and interactive activities will be released each week for this 8-week experience.

For more information, visit International Women’s Health and Human Rights.

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National Endowment for Democracy NED Grants Program

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Deadline: 2 October 2015

The National Endowment for Democracy is calling applications for its NED grants program. Each year the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes direct grants to hundreds of non-governmental organizations worldwide working to advance democratic goals and strengthen democratic institutions.

Grant amounts vary depending on the size and scope of the projects, but the average grant lasts 12 months and is around $50,000.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

Focus areas:

  • Promote and defend human rights and the rule of law
  • Support freedom of information and independent media
  • Strengthen democratic ideas and values
  • Promote accountability and transparency
  • Strengthen civil society organizations
  • Strengthen democratic political processes and institutions
  • Promote civic education
  • Support democratic conflict resolution
  • Promote freedom of association
  • Strengthen a broad-based market economy

Applications can be send via email/post/fax by the deadline.

For more information, visit NED grants.

UN Women Trust Funds: Grants for Global Women’s Empowerment

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The fifty-ninth annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world attend the session to discuss global women’s issues. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), established in June 1946, is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. For its long-run commitment in inclusion of the equal rights of men and women, CSW has achieved the recognition that women’s status is an issue that belongs on the international stage and has propagated the notion that women’s rights are human rights.

The main focus of CSW 59 is the celebration and review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a global pledge adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women for advancing women’s rights. In addition, CSW 59 discussed current challenges that affect the Platform’s implementation, the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

UN Women, as the United Nations entity for gender equality, expands CSW’s mandate and supports all aspects of CSW’s work. With a strong foundation of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women continues to work toward a world that promotes women’s rights and documents and recognizes the reality of women’s lives internationally.nt of women.

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Resource guide on Fundraising Resources for Women’s and Girls’ Rights

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The 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be coming up in the next few weeks. In light of this session, we have prepared a resource guide on Fundraising resources for Women’s and Girls’ Rights. This resource guide profiles the networks, foundations and organizations providing funding support to organizations around the world that are working on Women’s and Girls’ Rights issues.

Networks & Institutes

Women’s Funding Network

Women’s Funding Network is more than 150 organizations that fund women’s solutions across the globe, making us one of the largest collaborative philanthropic networks in the world. Our members are women’s foundations that span public charities, private foundations and funds within community foundations…[more]

International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF)

The INWF is a unique network in which funders in both the North and the South are organized democratically, and are organically linked to the feminist movement – from which almost all of them emerged. Currently the INWF has seventeen members committed to expanding the resources available to women’s rights organizations around the world…[more]

Women Grants

A regularly updated compilation of grants available for women and girls’ organizations…[more]

Women’s Philanthropy Institute

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute, a part of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, furthers the understanding of women’s philanthropy through research, education, and knowledge dissemination…[more]

Selected Foundations

The Global Fund for Women

The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. We advocate for and defend women’s human rights by making grants to support women’s groups around the world…[more]

Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a grant-giving foundation based in London. It was founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support the international human rights movement…[more]

Hewlett Foundation- Population Program

The Population Program has two goals: to enhance and protect the reproductive health and rights of individuals and to stabilize global populations in ways that promote social and economic well-being and sustain the environment…[more]

Mama Cash

Mama Cash is the oldest international women’s fund – established in the Netherlands in 1983. She supports pioneering and innovative women’s initiatives around the world, because she believes that social change starts with women and girls…[more]

Nike Foundation

Nike Foundation works to get girls on the international agenda and drive resources to them. The Foundation believes the best way to do that is to prove that investment in her unleashes the girl effect…[more]

Packard Foundation- Population and Reproductive Health

The Population and Reproductive Health program works to slow population growth in high fertility areas of the world and to enhance and protect women’s reproductive health and reproductive rights, especially for marginalized and disadvantaged girls, women, and communities…[more]

Multilateral Organizations

UN Women

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women provides grants to fuel innovative, high-impact programs by government agencies and civil society groups through two funds—the Fund for Gender Equality and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women…[more]

The Fund for Gender Equality

The Fund for Gender Equality is a multi-donor initiative designed to advance high-impact gender equality programmes that focus on women’s economic and/or political empowerment at local and national levels. The Fund is unique in its focus on turning local and national laws and policies into tangible gains for women’s rights…[more]

UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women

The UN Trust Fund is managed by the UN Women on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to end violence against women and girls…[more]

UNDEF

UNDEF was established by the UN Secretary-General in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world. UNDEF supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. UNDEF has a specific interest in women’s groups…[more]

fundsforNGOs will held Live Webinar on Grant Fundraising for Women and Girls’ Issues on 25 February 2015 (2:30 PM – 4:00 PM GMT).

The webinar will cover fundraising topics such as where can I get information on funding instruments targeting women and girls; what are the useful tools and resources to map institutional donors focusing on women and girls; How do I develop a successful strategy for fundraising for my program on women and girls.

It will cover the Donor Landscape and major funders supporting programs for women and girls- including bilaterals, foundations in the US and Europe, and multilaterals. Research techniques will highlight ways to find new donors and introduce resources dedicated specifically on giving to women and girls.

Click here to Register

Resource Guide: International Seed Grant Opportunities for New NGOs and Early Start-Ups

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Funding sources for new NGOs and new ideas are rare. Most donor agencies prefer to provide financial support to experienced organizations. But this does not mean that early-stage grant-seekers should feel discouraged. We have gathered a list of those grant-making agencies which offer programs to provide small and large size grants to new ideas, promising efforts, potential scale-ups and even new NGOs. Such type of funding is also known as ‘seed grants’ but they are available only for the most innovative, cost-effective and promising initiatives. If you are a FundsforNGOs Premium Member, you can also view a video on this topic by logging in here.

*Please note that some of the opportunities discussed here are closed and you can apply for them only after they open up to receive new proposals. Nevertheless we present them here so that you can mark them up on your calendar and apply at the right time.

Echoing Green Seed Grants for Emerging Social Entrepreneurs

The Echoing Green invites emerging leaders working to bring about positive social change to apply for any of the following three fellowship opportunities-

  1. Global Fellowship
  2. Climate Fellowship
  3. Black Male Achievement Fellowship

Fellowship Program by Echoing Green is a two year program that requires the fellows to work full-time (minimum 35 hours per week) during the fellowship period. Each selected fellow will be assigned a portfolio manager to offer guidance, assistance and referrals; they will have access to a variety of technical support and pro-bono services, including legal help, marketing advice and executive coaching. They will also participate in conferences that provide guidance on leadership and organizational development.

Benefits

  • A stipend of $80,000 for individuals (or $90,000 for two-person partnerships) paid in four equal installments over two years.
  • A health insurance stipend.
  • A yearly professional development stipend.
  • Leadership development and networking gatherings.
  • Access to technical support and pro bono partnerships to help grow their organization and a dedicated Echoing Green portfolio manager.
  • A community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders, including the Echoing Green network of more than 600 Fellows working in over sixty countries all over the world.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The applicant must be:
    • Over 18 years old
    • Fluent in English
    • Able to commit a full 35 hour work week to their organization.
  • The organization must be:
    • The original idea of the applicant(s)
    • In its start-up phase, usually within the first two years of operation
    • Independent and autonomous
  • An organization can be either a non-profit, a for-profit, or hybrid.
  • An organization does not only have to be run by one individual. Partnerships can apply for a Fellowship.
  • Organizations still in the idea phase are eligible.
  • Students, scholarships, or research projects, faith-based organizations, existing organizations which have grown past their start-up phase are ineligible to apply and will not be funded.

Application Procedure

The application procedure consists of three phases-

  • Phase 1: Online Application
    • Candidates are required to fill their:
    • Basic demographic info
    • Short essays about yourself, your idea/organization, and your partner (if applicable)
    • CV/Resume
  • Phase 2: Semi-Final Round
    • Candidates at this stage are required to write:
    • Additional essays about them and their organization
    • Budget Questions
    • Competitive Analysis
    • Letters of Reference
    • Phone interview (if needed)
  • Phase 3: Final Round- In-Person Interview
    • Trip will be organized for candidates to New York City (funded by Echoing Green)
    • And a 60-second idea pitch Panel interviews will be taken.

More information about this Seed Funding Opportunity is available in the PDF version. If you are a FundsforNGOs Premium Member, you can instantly download this PDF version. Not a Premium Member? Click here to Sign up! Not interested? Continue reading…

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Accountability Lab Seed Grants for NAF and LAF

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Nepal’s Accountability Lab is inviting applications for the Nepal Accountapreneurship Fund and the Liberia Accountapreneurship Fund. This event supports all the projects on accountability issues in Nepal and Liberia. Proposals are welcome from applicants involved in setting up community to check public funds and using mobile phones to report any accountability issue.

Applicants are free to submit their ideas related to the project at any time. Applicants can also send more than one idea. The NAF and LAF wish to work with more innovative ideas beneficial for public welfare development.

The NAF and LAF provide small grants of $2000 USD each. The amount is granted to selected project in two tranches of $1000 USD each. Second amount ($1000 USD) is granted after successful utilization of first tranche, i.e. after first six-months.

The Accountability Lab is a non-profit unit that works for local citizens and civil societies of Nepal and Liberia to provide development through making power-holders accountable. Accountapreneurship identifies accountapreneurs (groups/individuals) and give small-catalytic grants to these. Funds are granted to those who support implementation of ideas on accountability issues.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Individuals, groups, non-profit organizations and other organizations can apply.
  • Nepali citizens based in Nepal can only apply for NAF.
  • Liberian citizens based in Liberia can only apply for LAF.
  • Applicants from any professional background can apply.

How to Apply

Interested accountapreneurs from Nepal and Liberia can apply by sending application material though e-mail, online, written, or phone call.

Application material must include details given below:

  1. For Administration: Name of the organization/group, contact details, proposal name, total cost, name of the contact person.
  2. For Accountability Project: Project justification (max 300 words), project objective (max 100 words), project description (max 300 words), project selection (max 200 words).
  3. For Monitoring and Budgeting: Monitoring plan, estimated budget.

For more information, visit NAF and LAF.

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) 2014: Learn How to Apply

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The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) 2013 Call for Project Proposals is now open for NGOs to apply. The Fund provides financial support to projects around the world for strengthening the voice of civil society, promoting human rights and encouraging the participation of all groups in the democratic processes. The main areas of funding are Community Development, Media, Rule of Law and Human Rights, Tools for Democratization, Women and Youth.

For NGOs to win funding, it is very important to submit a strong application especially because there is huge competition for seeking grants from UNDEF. As a worldwide opportunity, NGOs need to consider some important elements that matter in the application form. Keeping in view of the challenges faced by organizations in developing countries, we have developed a guide that can assist them in writing an effective proposal.

Disclaimer: This guide is intended to help NGOs apply to the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) grant program. This is an unofficial guide that does not guarantee funding or support to applicants. The guide is intended to provide NGOs with suggestions. Readers are advised to use the guide at their own discretion.

The following information is included in this guide:

  1. Before You Apply: Learning About the United Nations Democracy Fund:  About the Fund, Purpose of the Fund, Types of Projects Fundable, Funding Available, Where Does Funding Come From? Length of Projects, Application Dates, How to Apply, Where to Apply, Who Can Apply
  2. Steps to Completing the UNDEF Application Form: Applicant Information, Project Information, Project Description, Partners and Sponsors, Budget, Commitments,
  3. Submitting Your Application On-line.
  4. Best Practices for Creating a Successful Application

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