Description
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 January 2022 and 22 January 2022.
Deadline
20 January 2022
Day I
| Time slot | Topic |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Module I: Fundraising Environment and Trends |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Module II: Organisational Prerequisites For Fundraising
Module III: Fundraising Strategy Part 1 |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Module III: Fundraising Strategy Part 2 |
| 13:30 – 14.30 | Module IV: Fundraising For Difficult Causes |
| 14:30 | End of Day 1 |
Day II
| Time slot | Topic |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Module V: (Online) Fundraising Communication |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Module VI: Best fundraising practice sharing for advocacy groups, think tanks and other NGOs based in Brussels (and beyond) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14.30 |
Module VII: Fundraising Tools
Module VIII: Building Relationships With Corporate Donors |
| 14:30 | End of Day 2 |
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)
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.
