The first step entails doing archival research by accessing academic journals, newspapers and media archives, and relevant governmental database. Look for empirical information regarding the problems you are addressing. For instance, if your NGO aims to implement projects targeting the spread of … [Read more...] about Carry out Research on Your Project for Raising Funds
How to Start Looking for Potential Donors
Once you clarified your main goals and areas of intervention, you will start looking for potential donors to develop projects and activities. There are two main general strategies to fundraise. The first is to design projects in relation to specific calls. The second is to design projects that … [Read more...] about How to Start Looking for Potential Donors
How to Respond to Funding Calls for Proposals
Proposals should be written and submitted following advertised calls. If you intend to approach an agency or foundation to test their potential interest in your projects you should opt for a concept note or a letter of inquiry. First of all, take your time to read carefully existing packages for … [Read more...] about How to Respond to Funding Calls for Proposals
How to Submit Unsolicited Proposals: Concept Notes and Letters of Inquiry
Concept notes and letters of enquiry could represent a means to contact potential donors when there is no call for proposals to be answered to. Yet, the request for concepts notes is becoming more and more popular even when calls for proposals are advertised as a way to make a very first selection … [Read more...] about How to Submit Unsolicited Proposals: Concept Notes and Letters of Inquiry
Individual Giving: Highly Potential Source of Funding for NGOs
To collect money through personal donations represents a good way to increase your budget (for instance if you need money to develop extra activities). You could fundraise by visiting members of your community (door to door) or using tools such as online platform, which help you fundraise among a … [Read more...] about Individual Giving: Highly Potential Source of Funding for NGOs
Fundraising Events
To organise a fundraising event could be fun and rewarding. Start by considering what sort of activities could attract the attention of people living in your region. Here are some ideas: 1) Dinner. Get local restaurant and cafes (or bakeries, food stalls in markets etc) involved in the … [Read more...] about Fundraising Events
Raising Funds through Social Enterprises
A social enterprise is an organisation that adopts commercial strategies to make profits with a social objective. In a sentence, social enterprise is doing charity by doing trade. The main goal of a social enterprise is to achieve financial sustainability and have a social impact. Development … [Read more...] about Raising Funds through Social Enterprises
Fundraising is a Learning Process: Do not give up if you do not succeed the first time!
It is important to understand that fundraising for NGOs, especially when you are in the very first stages of setting up a new organisation, is difficult. If you apply for grants given by multilateral agencies such as the UN or major Private Foundations, the chance to succeed is slim. In fact, large … [Read more...] about Fundraising is a Learning Process: Do not give up if you do not succeed the first time!
@Diversity Idea Competition – Innovative Ideas for the cultural and creative sectors in Europe
Deadline- 19 August 2013 All eligible participants are invited to participate in @Diversity Idea Competition for cultural projects. This program aims to make use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to finance, produce, make available, disseminate and extract value from cultural … [Read more...] about @Diversity Idea Competition – Innovative Ideas for the cultural and creative sectors in Europe
News: Open Society Foundations Worldwide Fund for Leadership Transitions in Nonprofits
The Open Society Foundations' new fund seeks to support a new generation of leaders around the world can implement their initiatives. Nonprofit organizations face challenges when new leaders take over them. As transition takes places, new leaders have to cope with internal limitations and a lack of … [Read more...] about News: Open Society Foundations Worldwide Fund for Leadership Transitions in Nonprofits
