Fundraising for NGOs

1. Theme: Fundraising for NGOs

Event Description:

Nonprofits all have the goal of bettering the world and making a difference—but these charities still need to find funding to continue their mission. In order to empower nonprofits, Dhimant Chovatia would enable us to understand the new ways to bring in donations, raise awareness around a cause, bring in new volunteers and keep the supporters invested.

Agenda: (image)

Audience:

- NGOs and Social Enterprises 

- CSR Practitioners

- Social Entrepreneurs, MSMEs

- Post Graduate Students

Outcomes:

Creating fundraising strategies for small and medium NGOs - 20 hours

Creating a sustainable development organisation - 20 Hours

Organisational Development - 6 Hours

Impact - Create and Measure - 4 Hours

Communications - 4 Hours

Fundraising and Branding - 6 hours

About Dhimant Chovatia: Dhimant has more than 15 years of experience across conventional trading, corporate houses and the development sector with large and mid-sized national and international organisations. Currently, he is working on his start-up Dhriti Communications to position it as a leading provider of communication services for the development sector. Over the years, Dhimant has established a strong network among the Indian non-profit and fundraising community, particularly in and around Hyderabad and South India. 

NGO Fundraising and Branding - 10 hours

Day 1

Institutional Fundraising

Introduction of trainer and participants

Introduction to fundraising

Importance of sustained fundraising

Typical examples of funding sources

Government | PSU | Institutions

Day 2

Corporate Fundraising

CSR in India

Corporate CSR Fundraising

Non-CSR Fundraising

Typical process of CSR Fundraising

Funding funnel - Effort vs Result

Day 3

Individual Fundraising

Individual Fundraising

HNI | Retail | Crowdfunding

Events

Discussion with Mr Jatin Tiwari from SightSavers – Topic – “Succeed at Fundraising through patience” – (1 Hour)

Practical Implementation Story + Case Studies

Day 4

NGO Branding

Brand visibility

Brand communication strategies

Low budget Branding

Mid Budget Branding

No Budget Branding

Fundraising Roundtable – Role of communications in the sustainability of an NGO – (1 Hour)

1 Comms expert – MT?

1 NGO Comms person – BF?

1 NGO Founder

1 CSR Head – VR?

Day 5

Presentations,

Recap, and Closure

Q and A Session

Participant Presentations on Fundraising Strategy for their organisation (10 mins each)

GD

Practical

Critique

Feedback

Audience:

Founders / Chief Functionaries of NGOs between 0-5 years of experience and income of 0 – 1 Cr per annuum

Fundraising team members / leads of NGOs between 0-5 years of experience age and income of 0 – 1 Cr per annuum

New fundraisers / New members of fundraising teams from NGO of any size

Lateral hires from outside the sector in Fundraising teams for NGOs of any size

Interns / Students of Social Development who may be interested in Non-profit fundraising

Outcome:

The participants will at the end of the course

Understand the basics of NGO fundraising and its importance

Know of various avenues of raising money for their cause

Understand strategies of approach for different funder types

Know the world corporate and individual fundraising

Get to know of strategies that worked and the ones that did not

Interact with practitioners and career fundraisers

Define a fundraising and branding strategy for their own cause

Learn to use branding solutions while being bootstrapped

Network with peers who can become partners in the long run