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Fundraising and Accessing EU Funds Guide for Trainers Fundraising and Accessing EU Funds

Fundraising and Accessing EU Funds Guide for Trainers Fundraising and Accessing EU Funds

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Fundraising and Accessing EU Funds

Guide for Trainers

Fundraising and

Accessing EU Funds

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Get AcquaintedGive the following information:• Name, organisation, country;

• One main achievement of your organisation you are proud of;

• One proverb from your country about money and its meaning for our training program;

• One main expectation from this training;

• Present in plenary.

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Training Objectives

At the end of this training you will have:

• Improved knowledge and skills in fundraising;

• Action plans for the elaboration of a strategic plan and a fundraising strategy for your organisation.

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Program Structure

• What is fundraising;

• Funding sources;

• Funding forms;

• Fundraising activities;

• Developing a fundraising strategy.

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Training program approach

If not new knowledge, a new light on the already known things.

Learning by doing.

Learning from each other.

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Activities we Planned

Team work

Observing

Applying learning

Individual work

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Our Rules

Feel free to interfere in the sessions and ask questions!

We will be happy to answer you...

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Your Rules?

It is your training!

Decide on the rules that will help you work effectively together during this training!

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What is fundraising?

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Fundraising

is a set of activities through which you access the necessary funds to ensure the flow of revenues to sustain your organisation’s activities.

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Sustainable funding

Sustainable funding can be achieved only by gaining the trust of your potential or actual founders.

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Exercise

To what kind of person will you be open to provide your support?

(qualities, behaviour, attitudes)

Imagine that your organisation is a person who asks for your support to implement some activities that you think are worth doing.

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CSO’s needed capacities:

INTEGRITY

ACCOUNTABILITY

TRANSPARENCY

PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL CAPACITY

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Accountability

Being responsible to someone for actions taken by explaining, clarifying and justifying the actions.

It implies that someone has a right to know and hold your organisation to account and that your organisation has a duty to explain and account for its actions.

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Integrity

• Walk your talk;

• Keep your promise and honour your word;

• If that is not possible, say when it will be and how the impact will be solved.

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Transparency

• Being easily understood;

• Being open, frank and honest in all communications, transactions and operations;

• Accountability and transparency go hand-in-hand.

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Professional and Managerial Capacity

Being effective: Doing the right things

Being efficient: Doing the things right

Peter Drucker

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How Far is Your Organisation from the Ideal Situation?

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Types of Funding Sources

INDIVIDUALS

ORGANISATIONS• non-profit• private• public

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Funding Sources

Supporter NGO Target Beneficiary

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Who are your CLIENTS?

Individuals or organisations who can influence your activities/services and to whom you report, being accountable for what you deliver and how you deliver it.

Both groups’ members are your clients.

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Follow your mission and do not make compromises on the quality of your work.

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ExerciseComplete the table:

• Who are the individuals or organisations that are your funding sources?

• What motivates them to offer you support/funds?

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Motivations to Give

• People give to people;

• Foundations give to fulfill their mission;

• Corporations give to have a return on

their investment;

• Public institutions give to implement their

public policies.

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ExerciseComplete the table:

Under which form you can receive funds from the respective funding source:

• supporters;• target beneficiaries.

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Funding Forms

Donations/gifts

Grants

Fees for services/products

Membership fees

Cause-related marketing

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Exercise

Teaching each other

1.Become expert in one type of funding form by preparing a short presentation for your peers;

2. Teach each other.

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Why is it important to have economic activities?

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Economic Activities

Traditional non-profit

Non-profit with income generating policies and practices

Social enterprise

Socially responsible business

Corporations practicing social responsibility

Traditional for profit

Non-profit sector Business sector

Mission motivesIncome reinvested in social programs or operational costs

Profit-making motivesProfit redistributed to

shareholders

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Social enterprises are social mission-driven organisations which apply market-based strategies to achieve their mission.

Economic Activities

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Social Enterprises

Non-profits that use business models to pursue their mission.

For-profits whose primary purposes are social.

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Basic research findings about NGO’s economic activities

• Activities are closely aligned with NGO’s missions;

• Net income is not the only measure of success;

• In the early stage, economic activities are capitalised with internal funding and grants.

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Fundraising ActivitiesBuilding therelationship

Communicating your request

Knowing your prospect

Knowing what you want

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Knowing Your Prospect

Who they are?

What they need and want?

How they may give?

Why they may give?

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Knowing Your Prospect

ANALYSIS TOOLS

Donors’ Pyramid

Donors’ Kite

Donors’ Matrix

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Knowing Your Prospect

Donors’ Pyramid

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Exercise

Identify for your organisation:

• most important donors: what type of funding source they belong to?

• where do you place them on the donors’ pyramid?

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Two Strategies for Financial Sustainability

• Diversity of donors

• Loyalty of few main donors

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You have the opportunity to meet with a donor who wants to support CSOs improve their skills in building their financial sustainability.

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Donor will support the best plan for raising funds of one CSO’s partnership working

in the same field.

You have 10 minutes to present your plan in front of the donor’s evaluations team.

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Four groups

Gaining support of: Selling services or products to:

Individuals Individuals

Corporations Organisations

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Task

• Elaborate the plan and prepare the presentation;

• Present the plan in front of the donor’s representatives.

45’

10’

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Remember When Making Your Request:

• Appeal to the heart;

• Raise interest and get attention;

• Provide facts to deal with skepticism;

• Tell what to do and how to do it.

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And the winner is...

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Building Relationships

Building relationships is building connections.

What do you do in order to build connections with your suporters or beneficiaries?

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Building Relationships with Supporters/Beneficiaries

• Bring them to your organisation;

• Go out to meet them;

• Keep in touch with them;

• Look for ways to help them;

• Thank them quickly and accurately for their generosity;

• Recognise them appropriately.

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Strategic Planning Action PlanningSimilarities: the same logic

Where we are

Where we want to be

How to go there?

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Differences

The TWO planning processes are defined by the different:

time frames they cover;degree of specificity, detail and clarity with which present, future and solutions are described.

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Main Concepts

Where we want to be: Desired future

mission, vision, goals, objectives.

Where we are: Present

problems/obstacles, weaknesses, threats, opportunities.

How to go there: Solutions

strategies, programs, projects, services, products, activities, actions.

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Organisation Strategic Plan

• It looks at your organisation’s existing situation using different frames of analysis;

• It describes the desired future synthesised in your organisation’s mission and vision;

• It identifies what activities, programs, services, products you will provide in order to achieve them.

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Your Organisation’s Fundraising Strategy

Can be elaborated when your organisation has a strategic plan: knows how to go from where it is to where it wants to be.

Includes solutions to achieve financial sustainability of your organisation’s activities, programs, services, products.

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Your Organisation’s Fundraising Strategy

What are the main reasons for starting a strategic planning process in your organisation?

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Imagine Desired Future

Organisation’s missionWhy your organisation exists;For whom your organisation works;How your organisation works;Where your organisation works.

Organisation’s visionYour organisation three years from now: size,

location, people, beneficiaries, activities, outsiders’ perception about, etc.

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Analyse Present Situation

• SWOT analysis

• Types of funding sources

• Programs/services sustainability

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Strategies for Organisation Development

In order to achieve your mission and vision, based on the information generated by the different frames of analysis of the existing situation decide:•What activities you want to perform and what programs, services, products you want to deliver?•When you want to deliver them?

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Evaluate Costs and Possible Funding Sources

Know what you wantEvaluate the planed activities, programs,

services, products costs.

Know your prospectResearch and identify your possible sources of

funding.

Determine your fundraising objectives based on these two steps.

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Elaborate Action Plans to Achieve Fundraising Objectives

Decide the actions

•Timing;

•Who is responsible;

•What resources are needed (money, time, information, other) in order to make the request and build the relationships.

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Proposed Steps for Elaborating Your Organisation’s Fundraising Strategy

In your team elaborate the process steps that you will implement after going home in order to elaborate your organisation’s strategic and fundraising plans and support their implementation