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TRAINING | Fundraising for NGOs, CSOs, Educational Institutions & Social Entrepreneurs

Brussels Academy which equips professionals with skills that will facilitate their access to the job market via structured training sessions and mentorship programs. Within this scope, a professional training session on fundraising is being offered in cooperation with Vocal Europe.

2-day programme

Programme and timetable.

Original programme information and timetable.

Programme day 1

Day I

  1. Time slot Topic
  2. Module I: Fundraising Environment and Trends
  3. Module II: Organisational Prerequisites For Fundraising Module III: Fundraising Strategy Part 1
  4. Lunch break
  5. Module III: Fundraising Strategy Part 2
  6. – 14.30 Module IV: Fundraising For Difficult Causes
  7. End of Day 1
Programme day 2

Day II

  1. Time slot Topic
  2. Module V: (Online) Fundraising Communication
  3. Module VI: Best fundraising practice sharing for advocacy groups, think tanks and other NGOs based in Brussels (and beyond)
  4. Lunch break
  5. 14:00 – 14.30 Module VII: Fundraising Tools Module VIII: Building Relationships With Corporate Donors
  6. End of Day 2

Training Overview

Brussels Academy which equips professionals with skills that will facilitate their access to the job market via structured training sessions and mentorship programs. Within this scope, a professional training session on fundraising is being offered in cooperation with Vocal Europe.

The training aims at providing a thorough understanding of strategic approach to fundraising for difficult causes, and how to engage individual donors to generate unrestricted (flexible) income to support your organisation.

After attending this session, the newly trained participants will be able to:

Discover specificities of fundraising for difficult (non-mainstream) causes

Formulate a fundraising strategy for their organisation

Understand effective fundraising communication and tools to raise unrestricted funds

This training session aims to provide participants with the expertise required to apply for the following positions:

CEOs responsible for resource mobilisation.

Fundraisers and development staff passionate about their causes.

Project managers and/or other staff in charge of raising funding.

Board members involved in donor relations.

Target Audience

Advocacy organisations, think-tanks and other NGOs, CSOs and individuals working with difficult (non-mainstream) causes

European networks/associations of member organisations

When

The training will be taking place on 21-22 January 2022.

Deadline

20 January 2022

Certificate

Upon completion of the entire training, participants will receive an official certificate of attendance.

Trainers

*Eduard Marček President, European Fundraising Association (Netherlands) Head of Individual Fundraising, Transparency International (Slovakia) Co-founder and Chair, Slovak Fundraising Center (Slovakia)

*Katarína Bartovičová Fundraising Manager, European Digital Rights – EDRi (Belgium) Co-founder, Slovak Fundraising Center (Slovakia)

More about the trainers here.

Venue

The training will take place via Zoom. Each participant will receive a link to have access to the platform from Vocal Europe. *PLEASE NOTE | The training session’s working language is English.

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