Fundraising is one of the most important tasks for an NGO. Donors’ funding will ensure that your planned activities take place and that your organisation can pursue its main long-term goals. As such, to select the right candidates for a fundraising team is of utter importance. The main aim of this short guide is to advice NGO members on how to advertise a fundraising job vacancy, how to shortlist and select the right candidates, and how to manage the created team to improve the overall performance of the organisation.
Before looking for a new member of staff, remember that recruiting is about understanding people’s motivations. You will find the perfect match for your organisation only if you make the effort to understand what the candidates want, what their dreams are and also how your organisation could help them fulfilling their career’s expectations.
How to recruit Your Fundraising Officer
This first section will help you understanding what are the main qualities of a fundraiser, how and where you should look for a new fundraiser, how to assess potential candidates to select the right one and how to introduce the new member of staff to the activities of the organisation and its other members to enable the selected candidate to give a sound performance.
To read more, click on the links below:
- What are the Qualities of a Good Fundraiser?
- How to Advertise for a Fundraiser for Your NGO?
- How to Shortlist, Interview and Select Fundraisers for Your NGO?
- How to Build Your Fundraising Team?
- Where to find Potential Candidates for Fundraising and How to Attract them?
- Create a System for Recruiting Volunteers for Fundraising
- How to Assign Fundraising Tasks for Volunteers in Your Organization?
- Managing the Fundraisers for Your Organization
- How Your Fundraisers can maintain High Motivation
- How to set up Targets to make Your Fundraisers work
- Measuring the Progress Your Fundraisers make
- How to decide on the Budget for Your Fundraising Team
- Skills and Values for Your Fundraising Team
We are a registered trust deed no.949 under the laws of Kenya. We are dealing with the BOY CHILD both young and old and we are seeking for donors to assist in logistical matters.
We shall be glad to offer information.
with regards
Claudia
Fundraising executive
Re: Request for joint venture for the children of TRIBAL and backward communities,
who are in vulnerable situations.
Dear Donor,
We take the opportunity to introduce ourselves as a development agency (NGO), whose aim is to fight poverty and injustice. Since 2002, we are trying to work with the poor and marginalized tribal people of West Bengal and Jharkhand of India, almost without any fund. We are working with local communities with their children, who are in vulnerable situations.
We are reaching out with the target groups, through SHGs (Self-Help Groups) of which, mostly are poor and marginalized, belong to tribal communities, supporting them in their struggle to access their rights to food, shelter, education, healthcare and human security and helping them have their voice in the development decisions affecting their lives and livelihood.
As we are working with the Tribal and other backward communities at the Purulia and East Singhbhum districts, under the State of West Bengal & Jharkhand respectively, that is why, we would like to propose the welfare/sponsorship program for the children and their families as well as their communities for the said areas.
We look forward to hear from your end.
Thank you,
Ashish K Bardhan
Member Secretary, SPREAD-INDIA
September14,2013
Thank very much for your good guidance to the local NGOs on how to get a fundraiser who can effectively perform the work in regard to the defined vision of the organization.
My NGO is operating in kilimanjaro, Tanzania in East Africa providing services to the orphaned and vulnerable children through its two major programs, Children Rehabilitation Program (CRP) and Poverty Eradication Program, at the family level (PEP). Our great bottleneck has been how to get really committed fundraisers who can connect us with the donors for the sustainability of our projects
Hello,
I’m the President of NGO: ADET. We work for social development and sustainable development. our field of activities is : disable persons, older persons, migrants, indigenous peoples, youth, vulnerable women, girls and children, poverty, agriculture, climate change, energy, education, health, biodiversity, biotechnology, majour groups.. We are international and based in Togo ( Africa).
Your financial support will be better for us to stand up for the post 2015 sustainable development program. Thank you
Yours sincerely
SOSSOUGA DOSSE
we are ruining a organization named PORTFOLIO BUSINESS FINANCE & INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CONSULTANCY FIRM in Tanzania we are helping individuals, small & medium business owners, and all business organizations to conduct analytical education on PORTFOLIO BUSINESS FINANCE & INVESTMENT STRATEGIES to need people/groups. Thank you very much for this good information, will help me identify a fundraiser for my young organization,which is trying educate community on how they can invest using the resources they have to help them raise economic status. Please help us to find the Donner so we may continue improving livelihood of communities especially the marginalized groups.
We are a National Organization for children,youth,less privilege,men and women in Cameroon,pricing in Bamenda focusing on human right, vocational training, on health,educational support etc.we are also a young organization .We are requesting if we can be linked to funding organizations so that we can network with for aposibility of developing partnerships,
We are a National Organization for Deaf women in kenya focusing on human right,civic education advocacy, on health,leadership,economic empowerment etc.we are also a young organization .We are requesting if we can be linked to funding organizations so that we can network with for aposibility of developing partnerships,
I am running a 10-year old local NGO engaged in rehabilitation – especially in education and rural infrastructure – in northern Uganda which region was badily devastated by 20 years of civil war in the region.Our main problem is how to raise funds on a massive scale to help accelerate the rehabilitiation of this region to enable it CATCH UP with the rest of the country in terms of development and progress.
I therefore find your ideas very ideal in our situation. Yournotes broaden our fundraising skills and personnel base to tackle this dounting task. I am sure it is not too late to put such ideas into maximum use.
Can any well wishers who read this comment assist link us to donor agencies who may to come to our aid.
respected sir/ Madam
we are ruining a organization named Courage development organization in Pakistan we are working for beterment of depress and opressed and flood affected communities plz help us to find the donner so we may continue humantain assestance in flood afected comunities
Asif Raza
courage Development organization
We are running a NGO and research oriented Ayurveda and Yoga health center in Karnataka,india. We have conducted Many free health checkup camps in villages and urban areas and 10 yoga therapy camps and personality development camps. And we provide counselling also.
Can we get funding?
Great information, will be of help to me for getting fundraisers for our organization, though young but has already gone far in seeing the Lively hood of Vulnerable young children realized their dreams of prospering in their education needs.
Thank you for the information again.
Hi
My organization is involved in culture and tourism related activities. We really would like to build a healthy community which is aware of its environment and its culture. We are looking for ways to sustain our environment and culture.
We are a statutory body which is funded by the government on a grant basis. We need some help on which ngo group would best suit our requirements.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for the good job you are doing there.
I would like to ask if we can be funded or get an organization that can help us to be funded ?.
Kakamega Community Development Group is a non profit community based Group that advocates for the community participation in policies making at the county level and also children with disabilities.
Thanks.
Apostle Daniel Gitau
Hello thanks a lot for the work your doing over there but i would like to ask that what if we have aCBO we can’t be funded other wise we would like also to be given a hand in our projects in advocacy to child rights and youths projects to community development in eastern Uganda we are on facebook,
thank you.
Nalya charles (executive Director) Prince Nalya International Children’s Centre Uganda Chapter (PNICCUC).
I thanked you very much for this information,It will help me identify a fundraiser for my young organization,which is trying to help empower the communities to be able to identify their local resources and use for their developments plan.