Month: January 2019

Beginning at the Beginning: Organizing Your Grant-Seeking Effort

To begin at the beginning will take us back to grant seeking. Most problems that occur in funded grant projects are best solved before you get the grant, and even before you apply for the grant. This takes us back to what happens before the application or proposal process. If your first thought is that…
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Filmmakers Without Borders: Seeking Applications for Filmmaking Grants Program

Filmmakers Without Borders is seeking applications for its Filmmaking Grants which support independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange. FILMMAKERS WITHOUT BORDERS (FWB) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that…
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Go Green in the City Challenge 2019: Inviting Applicants from all over the world

Applicants are invited to submit their applications for Go Green in the City Challenge 2019 they are looking for students from around the world who are willing to put their skills and ideas to the test. For 180 years Schneider Electric has been committed to changing the way they access energy. As a global specialist…
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World Food Programme: Seeking Applications for Innovation Accelerator Programme

The World Food Programme is inviting applications for its Innovation Accelerator Programme. WFP’s Innovation Accelerator identifies, nurtures and scales bold solutions to hunger globally. They support WFP innovators and external start-ups and companies through financial support, access to a network of experts and a global field reach. The Accelerator believes the way forward in the…
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Top 10 Things to Understand About How Fundraising Really Works Today

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everybody in your organization agreed on what really works for fundraising success? What’s important? What’s not so important? What basic principles can you agree on? There’s often a philosophical disagreement inside many organizations about how fundraising really works. Board members, in particular, often have pre-conceived notions about fundraising that are…
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Steps To Achieve Higher Impact:A Common Sense Approach To Strategy

Strategy is no guarantee of impact. But without it, you are almost guaranteed to have no impact. –Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Steps Nonprofits Have to Consider for Effective Initiatives and Projects Defining, documenting, and diagnosing the problem Get the problem right! To have a better understanding of Haiti’s market, you…
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Grassroots Organizations: The Fuel Behind International Organizations and a Force to be Reckoned With

They are known by different names around the globe; from CBOs (community-based organizations) and civil societies to associations, or foundations. Irrespective of what they are labeled, they are within the same family, namely, the “social sector or nonprofit sector,” and unlike international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have first-hand experience of what the real world problems are.…
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Changing the Narrative on Haiti’s Nonprofit Sector

We have the power to shape the narrative of the future we want. Recognize that reality is a moving target, one highly susceptible to human influence as it advances unpredictably into the future. While stories begin with the past and present, more importantly, they communicate future desires. In this sense, your narrative should work to…
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‘Tis the Year of Planning

2018 was a wild adventure. Researching Haiti’s social/nonprofit sector has been both a challenge as well as a learning opportunity for us. We hope this year we are able to bring you the vital information that we have gathered. Planning in nonprofit should be a top priority this year. If you haven’t done so, you…
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