Deadline: 16 June, 2023
West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), in partnership with Wilde Ganzen and Change the Game Academy, has opened applications for a local fundraising capacity strengthening programme.
The programme in Abuja, Nigeria, seeks to build the resilience of local Nigerian civil society organisations (CSOs) to be able to effectively mobilise funds internally and locally and also diversify resource streams for their work.
WACSI, in a research on the ‘Effects of Covid-19 on organisations in Nigeria’, found that over 55 percent of CSOs lacked the capacity to mobilise domestic resources while 79 percent of them had no financial reserves.
The need to support organisations to diversify their resources and grow towards sustainability has become even more crucial – particularly amongst organisations operating at grassroots and subnational levels.
Benefits
- Strengthen knowledge and skills to successfully raise funds and diversify resource streams at a local level
- Explore non-traditional and local fundraising strategies
Eligibility
- Be a community-based organisation (CBO), self-help group and NGO operating in Abuja, Nigeria
- Be legally registered as a nonprofit based in Nigeria
- Have a good track record within community of operations
- Have strong leadership and governance structures
- Have a minimum of two years of operational experience
- Commit to developing a fundraising plan after the training phase of the programme and be willing to operationalise the plan
- Be willing to pay a commitment fee of N50,000 after the organisation has been selected
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Justice Okai-Allotey
