Training Courses in Institutional Capacity Building
Methods of mobilizing resources and securing funding for NGOs
Training Description
The availability of resources in their various classifications and the organization’s ability to attract them is considered one of the most important issues affecting the sustainability of the civil organization, its performance within society, and its ability to meet societal needs. Especially in light of the demand that civil society organizations develop their societal role by moving towards increasing their contribution to comprehensive development and sustainable development, which requires mobilizing the maximum amount of resources in a sustainable manner that achieves their institutional sustainability in the future. This training course was designed to support organizations’ ability to mobilize resources and arrange funding within the community and provide them with mechanisms for building a strategy for managing funding, dealing with donors, corporate social responsibility, and organizing donation campaigns from individuals within the community.
Training Period
3 training days
Target Group
Project managers, development program officials, and workers in civil society organizations
Training Start
May 28, 2024
Training Goals
Main Goals:
Enable participants to design a strategy for mobilizing community resources as one of the requirements for achieving institutional sustainability for their organizations.
Secondary Goals:
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
1. Familiarity with the necessary knowledge of the concept of resource mobilization and the financing procurement process.
2.. Understanding and applying the various mechanisms and strategies for mobilizing resources and arranging financing.
3. Implementing and managing resource mobilization and financing campaigns.
4. Identify the different types of funders and donors and how to deal with them.
Main Topics
- Sustainable development as an entry point for community development.
- The most important requirements for achieving the sustainable development goals.
- The relationship of resource mobilization and financing for civil society organizations to the requirements of achieving sustainable development goals.
- An overview of civil society organizations and basic concepts in resource mobilization and financing
- Community participation and volunteering
- The organization's self-financing and types of resources and their sources
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
- The importance of mobilizing resources
- Partnership and networking
- The circles of resources surrounding the organization and the skills of those responsible for the financing management process
- Grants and external funding
- Writing resource mobilization proposals
- The resource system and its importance to the organization
- Designing resource mobilization campaigns, resource mobilization strategies and mechanisms
- Human, financial and information resources
- Advertising and social marketing
- Obstacles to resource mobilization and financing and proposals to overcome them
- Databases and their importance in financing management.
- Practical applications
Trainers
Dr. Walid Sayed
