Resource Mobilization for the Resilience of Civil Society Organizations (RM)
حشد الموارد لدعم صمود مؤسسات المجتمع المدني
Creating a robust resource mobilization and fundraising strategy is essential for ensuring organizational resilience (and eventually sustainability). This training introduces a road map for organizations to develop a comprehensive resource mobilization and fundraising strategy that not only secures necessary resources but also builds resilience to thrive in uncertain times.
The training is designed to
- Raise awareness and leverage skills in the field of resource mobilization
- Reduce donor dependency and seek alternative funding sources
- Shifts organizations from being donor-oriented or donor-dependent
- Mobilize non-financial resources in addition to the financial resources
Fundraising officers, directors, program managers, proposal writers, board members, and other interested professionals in the field of resource mobilization.
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- Type: Classroom/Hybrid/Online/On-Client Premise
- Duration: 30 Hours
- Language: English and Arabic
Objectives:
Training approach and methodology will focus on exploring and learning how to make more informed strategic decisions, to pivot resource mobilization/fundraising efforts based on financing prospects in the prevailing situation, and on simple but impactful adjustments to render CSOs more financially resilient.
- Learn about institutional financial resilience
- Know how to make organization more attractive to givers of all kinds
- Strengthen traditional and non-traditional resource mobilization skills
Topics:
- Personal introductions and motivations
- What each person has to give to the group
- Organizational presentations
- What each organization has to give to the other organizations
- Participants’ expectations
- How do we explain our success in resource mobilization?
- How do we explain our failure in resource mobilization?
- Lessons learned: How did we get to where we are now?
- How do we envision resource mobilization prospects in the current and near future situation?
- Money right now: financial fire-fighting?
- Financial risk mitigation?
- Financial resilience?
- Financial sustainability?
- Is resilience always good?
- Resilience versus Transformative-Resilience
- Determinants of financial transformative-resilience
- Decolonization of Aid and transformative financial resilience
- Community-led Development and financial transformative resilience
- Financial resources
- Funding streams
- Non-financial resources
- Governance and accountability mechanisms
- Resource mobilization policy
- Clear organizational strategy and plans
- Medium Term Resource Framework
- Adaptive management capacity
- Credibility
- CSO resource mobilization challenges/issues
- CSO Revenue sources
- Financial vulnerability: revenue concentration; independency ratio; dependency quotient
- Which (available and potential) resource(s) that CSO could mobilize in the current situation? How?
- Resource mobilization objectives and targets
- Resource mobilization options:
- Financial
- Non-financial
- Resource mobilization tools
Donor cultivation and retention
- Identifying funding need
- Concept Note
- Donner mapping and identifying potential donor(s)
- Funding Proposal
- Follow-up with funding agencies
Prerequisites
Relevant work experience
Trainer
Mr. Khail Nijem is a strategic/spatial planning, project management, and community development specialist with a regional planning and civil engineering background. He has consolidated over 35 years of experience (more than half of which in senior level positions) in public, private, and NGOs sectors as an academic, researcher, and practitioner working in spatial and strategic planning, project planning and management, and institutional building. He has extensive experience in development planning at the national, regional and local levels and in relating community development issues to the public sectors’ and NGO’s planning and development functions. He led and/or participated in drawing several national, sectoral, regional, local, and institutional strategic plans as well as, in formulating a number of policy documents and tools. In Addition, Mr. Nijem has acquired considerable experience in managing large/complex development, capacity building, and institutional building projects both in Palestine and in the Middle East Region. He also provided consultancy and training services to public institutions, as well as, to local and international NGOs in the areas of strategic planning, policy development, participatory management, program/project planning, resource mobilization and fundraising, monitoring and evaluation, institutional building & organizational development, and participatory community research methods. Mr. Nijem is also NGOs activist serving as a Board member of several NGOs.
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