Fundraising Radicals

Aaaaand, here are 20+ past podcast episodes (also free) that can help you to explore, find, and shape your own unique journey to funded impact. https://lnkd.in/gqAwG72M These are detailed conversations and deep dives about funding and partnerships - all with civil society leaders (mainly in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, and Latin America). These include the following episodes: - Shifting Power in Fundraising & Development with Steve Murigi - Community, Trust, and Fundraising in #Ghana with Nachula Wilson - Indigenous Communities & Sustainable Forestry in #PapuaNewGuinea with Cosmas Makamet - Localisation, Creativity, and Shifting Power in #AfricanDevelopment, with Terembe Cherono Maritim - Get It Right First Time (WASH Funding Across Africa) with Lilian Mabonga (PMP®.PMD Pro. MBA.) - Impact Investment & Innovation in #Peru with Irene Arellano Pineda - Fundraising in Exile for #Myanmar, with Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun - Big Funding Partnerships for Advocacy in #Malawi with Bessie Ndovi - Authenticity, Values, and Social Impact in #AotearoaNewZealand, with Ezra Hirawani - The Future of #African Diaspora Funding with Jermaine Craig - Inspiring a New Generation in Burundi with Dieudonne NAHIMANA - Grantseeking and Proposals in Africa with Clemencia Osa - From 1 Email to $2 million in #LaoPDR with Keoamphone Souvannaphoum And many more!

Global funding feels narrow and shallow right now, so it's time to narrow our focus, deepen our existing partnerships, and use these to explore new opportunities particularly those that are geographically closer to us. We've added an online fundraising training course for free to our Google Drive Folder (4 workbooks, 60+ videos, some tools, and lots of examples) that will help you structure and explore your approach to funders: https://lnkd.in/gwWQyKTZ If you've been affected by the recent funding stoppage or are just looking to make your fundraising more efficient and effective, maybe check them out and we hope they're helpful. All best wishes as you navigate this challenging fundraising landscape. #fundraising #training #onlinecourse #fundingpartnerships #corporatepartnerships #trustfundraising #governmentfundraising #nonprofitfundraising #fundingcuts #stopwork United States Agency For International Development Government of the Netherlands Craig Pollard

Global fundraising and partnership-building practice has been dominated for too long by "expertise" that is based on narrow, shallow experiences in Europe and North America. This "global" fundraising doctrine lacks nuance, relevance, and is often harmful within the completely different cultures and contexts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. We're not just talking about "localisation" of fundraising. We've been walking this path for a while now. Fundraising Radicals offers a practical learning pathway that leads to funded local impact. We couldn't do this work without brilliant people. The altFUND programme (Global Funding for Local Impact) couldn't happen without this wonderful global faculty, who create spaces for our exploration towards funded impact, who become accomplices in the funding journeys of others, who platform the relevant experiences of the participants, and who share their own deep and broad experiences of starting and sustaining funding partnerships in these regions. These remarkable people, civil society leaders, formidable partnership-builders will be your global faculty - walking alongside you during this year's altFUND programme 😊🙏🏼🥳 : Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun (Myanmar/US) Nachula Wilson (Ghana/Malawi) Lilian Mabonga (PMP®.PMD Pro. MBA.) (Kenya) Lucila Sarquis (Argentina) Steve Murigi (UK/East Africa) Jessica Oddy-Atuona (UK) Emily Monville Oro (Philippines) We'll be closing our doors to new registrations in a few weeks and still have a few places left on this year's programme (lasts 20 weeks, from 31 March). So, if you are looking to explore the world of building funding partnerships that are human, holistic, and high-value (alongside this group of awesome people)... If you're seeking to equip yourself with the theory, tools, and tactics you need to fund your local impact from a wide range of sources... Find out more and register at https://lnkd.in/gu3uZjqK Oh, and we're offering massive parity discounts to independent NGOs in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. #fundraising #training #fundingpartnerships #shiftthepower #localisation

The primary focus of Fundraising Radicals has always been on the (often invisible) contribution we make to the global fundraising ecosystem - sharing regionally-relevant theory, tools, and tactics - for ten years now. But last year something changed. Our impact became more immediate. Our impact became more visible. 120+ of our certificated participants generously shared their testimonials of how much actual funding they raised during the programme - and many generously attributed this to the programme. Here are some of their words and achievements. Shared with gratitude. If you're interested in joining this year's altFUND "Global Funding for Local Impact" programme check out the link in the comments. #fundraising #training

Mostly, I don't really know or see what difference this work makes. I only see a few of the ripples. Most disappear into the distance. Our programmes are small contributions into big, long, and complex processes. This is all okay. Because it's taken me this long to realise that it doesn't matter if we rarely see what comes out the other end, if we're confident about the value and quality we're putting in - that's what really matters. Showing up every year, convening brilliant people to guide others to fund their impact, is the right thing for me (and us!) to be doing now, maybe more than ever. The primary focus of Fundraising Radicals has always been on the (often invisible) contribution we make to the global fundraising ecosystem - sharing regionally-relevant theory, tools, and tactics - for ten years now. The results have been hard to see. But sometimes, many years later, participants from our previous (rough and ready!) courses get in touch to tell us about how we helped to fundamentally pivot their fundraising journey, understanding and practice - and generously attribute a part of their subsequent funding successes. But last year something changed. Our impact became more immediate. Our impact became more visible. 120+ of our certificated participants generously shared their testimonials of how much actual funding they raised during the programme - and many generously attributed this to the programme. In doing so, they have shone a hundred lights onto the previously hard to see impact of Fundraising Radicals, they have given it shape, and helped me to understand and see it better. Here are some of their words and achievements. Shared with gratitude. #fundraising #training #humanity #justice #equity #funding

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind in the international development sector. I know many of you who are directly and indirectly affected by the uncertainty around USAID funding. This is an unexpected acceleration of a decades-long decline in the quality and reliability of institutional funding. If you're based in #Africa, #Asia, #LatinAmerica, or #Oceania and seeking practical guidance to explore other sources of funding we're making our past training sessions and panel events available for FREE in this Google Drive Folder: https://lnkd.in/gwWQyKTZ We'll add more free training resources during the coming days and weeks. For now, you can access our 2024 series of four one-hour Regional Panel Webinars. These share relevant regional experiences from our global faculty to guide your explorations into: - Corporate Partnerships in Africa (English) - Holistic Funding Partnerships in South East Asia (English) - Grantseeking & Proposals in Africa (English) - Social Innovation and Social Impact in Latin America (Spanish) Please do repost to share this with your networks. #fundraising #training #diversifyincome #freetraining #USAID #institutionalfunding #nonprofits #resourcemobilisation

Last year the Fundraising Radicals award-winning training programme walked alongside hundreds of civil society leaders in more than 100 countries (95% in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania) as they resourced their impact. For the 120 certificated graduates the experience was transformational. Some of them testified to their changed mindsets and methods in the document below. We have distilled a decade of learning of exploring regionally relevant approaches to starting and sustaining funding partnerships that are high-value, holistic and human. Our global faculty has equipped hundreds of civil society organisations with theory, tools, and tactics to explore new frontiers and approaches, to reduce dependence on traditional donors, to integrate funding streams, and secure the resources they need to fund their impact. In 2025, we step forward with "altFUND" the award-winning alternative certificate in Global Funding for Local Impact. This is a 20-week experience and exploration of what it takes to fund impact - a programme of teaching, coaching, connection, and min-projects - this has been designed with and for civil society leaders and organisations in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. We have now filled 16 of the 32 places available for this year's programme, which begins on 31 March and runs to mid-August. Find out more about who we are and what we do and register for one of the remaining places at: https://lnkd.in/gu3uZjqK. #fundraising #training #partnerships #institutionalfunding #corporatepartnerships #hnwi #trustfunding #futurefunding

We did some things in 2024. And we have a new thing for 2025. #fundraising #funding #impact #global #partnerships

These conversations have given us all an important glimpse inside a few more nuanced worlds of fundraising that grow our understanding beyond the "usual" people, places and perspectives of high-value fundraising. Our fourth and final regional panel event of the series will be exploring the expansive and creative world of "Social Innovation and Social Impact in Latin America". We can't wait to hear the deep expertise and broad experiences of our brilliant panellists, all of whom have Masters Degrees in #SocialEntrepreneurship and #SocialInnovation from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 🚀 Irene Arellano Pineda - Executive Director of Asociación UNACEM, a public-private sector organisation working with civil society and the community to sustainably develop Lima Sur in #Perú. Lucila Sarquis - Is based in #Argentina. She is Editor of The Startup Club, a biweekly digest of startup news by Slidebean. Before this, she held roles as Programs Director for Latam & USA at Bridge for Billions, Global Program Manager Yunus & Youth, and at the Argentina Association of Entrepreneurs Silvia Garcia Téllez - Associate Director at Partner of the Americas in #Colombia, supporting project teams to implement high quality and system change projects in the Rural Development unit.  who are based in #perú, #argentina, and #colombia. The webinar is on Wednesday 3 July @ 1600 GMT/UTC (timed to work for Latin America). Register here: https://lnkd.in/gqcbBGcA You'll also get on-demand access to the other webinars in the series, that have explored: Corporate Partnerships in Africa, Holistic High-Value Funding Partnerships in South East Asia, and Grantseeking & Proposals in Africa. Join us - FOR FREE! (naturally - because often the causes and civil society organisations who cannot afford paid webinars are those that stand to gain the most from these regional exchanges of experience and expertise). All webinars are live-translated and available in English, French and Spanish, they are also recorded and available on-demand afterwards. See you there! 😊 #socialinnovation #socialentrepreneurship #socialimpact #fundraising #globalpartnerships

So far, our FREE regional panel events have explored that it takes to start and sustain Corporate Partnerships in Africa and Holistic Funding Partnerships in South East Asia. The series continues next Tuesday 25 June @ 0900 GMT/UTC with a deep dive into Grantseeking & Proposals in East Africa. Join us!! Register for the whole series here: https://lnkd.in/gqcbBGcA All webinars are live-translated and available in English, French and Spanish, they are also recorded and available on-demand afterwards. We can't wait to hear the deep expertise and broad experiences of our brilliant panellists, who between them have raised many millions of dollars from grantmakers over the past decades: - Lilian Mabonga (PMP®.PMD Pro. MBA. MA) (Regional Program Officer for Africa at Living Water International) - Philip Odino (Managing Partner at Pepea Capital) - Clemencia Osa Ouma, MPPM, CFRE (Campaign and Coalition Manager at Women's World Banking) See you there! 😊 #proposalwriting #grantseeking #fundraising #partnerships #africa #kenya #civilsocietyorganisations #nonprofitfundraising