Online training course “Fundraising & Resource Mobilisation”

Dates: 11 – 19 May 2021
The place: online
Website: Training and Facilitation Skills | MDF

Course Overview:
There are many strategies NGOs can employ in order to mobilise resources for improved service delivery. Too often NGOs complain about not having enough funding or enough resources to accomplish their goals, and too often NGOs rely on singular funding streams from donors, which are provided over limited time periods. Successful NGOs are finding ways to work with markets and help business “do well while doing good.” In this training, it will be discussed, how NGOs can influence business practices, build corporate partnerships, and develop earned income ventures all ways of leveraging market forces to achieve social change on a broader scale

Course Objectives:

• By the end of this course, you will:
• Understand the essential components of an integrated fundraising plan
• Knows the steps in resource mobilization for fundraising
• Understand different types of donors and their motivations
• Have increased their ideas on how to identify funds, including corporate funds/CSR
• Understand the link between external communication and fundraising

Your profile: Programme/project managers and professionals, directors and line managers with fund raising responsibilities, and consultants and/or advisers.

Key topics:

• Identify resource needs – how much money do you need and when?
• Organizational strategy: Vision, mission, values
• Organization’s USPs
• Sources of funding
• Elements of a funding plan
• Overview of fundraising: what we know already
• Steps in Resource Mobilisation
• Step 1 – 3: Recognition, Relations, Resources
• Step 4: Action – Making a fundraising plan
• Match-making strategies
• Landscape & scanning for funding opportunities and Go/No go
• External relations, external communication, branding
• Personal reflection and action plan

Essential information:

• Course fee: 975 EUR (tax exempted)
• Registration: HERE
• Date: 11 – 19 May 2021
• Registration deadline: 4 May 2021
• Language: English

Meet your trainers:

• Thilakan Sathasivam – Senior Trainer/Consultant, Director of MDF Bangladesh
  Email: ST@mdf.nl
• Susanne van Lieshout – Senior Trainer/ Consultant, Director of MDF Kenya
  Email: sli@mdf.nl

Special offers:

• 5% early bird discount for payments completed by 4 March 2021
• 10% discount for MDF alumni within the last 2 years
• 1 free place for a group of six registrations from the same organization

Contact us

MDF Asia, Vietnam Office
Add: Room 501, A1 Building, Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound
298 Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Tel: +84 (0) 24 6258 4438
Email: mdfasia@mdf.nl