Fundraising A fun raising affair?
Who do we have here? Who has a fundraiser? Who is doing the fundraising What does the fundraiser What do you do?
Fun? It's a hell of a job I do not understand finance I am a bad writer I have no ideas It's not my job I have no time My collegue is better in this I don't like to beg for money
Fun? We have great people in our network We have great ideas We have to offer the real solutions We have great contacts in government and society But we only talk about contents We deliver for free Stop delivering for free! Include sales in all your external conversations
Co finance overview Still a long way to go Some fantastic results by groups Some updates needed Consortium should intensify own applications Consortium wants to inspire and coordinate fundraising efforts Consortium wants to support you
Basic idea Spending obligation! Underspending is the best method for negative fundraising 25% co finance Fundable bits that match exactly FFE activities Fundraise way more than 25% Everything > 25% can be used for other activies/staff costs within the project
Split up in threesomes Pick out the best two partners in the network Make a list of the best 10 possible funders you can think of Think of NEW funders Make a list of the best 10 fundable bits = already existing FFE activities Determine the best selling product-customer combination
Funds? Development Ministries Development NGO's Agriculture Ministries Private funds
Split up in threesomes Sell a speaker tour to your national development agency What is the product you sell? Define budget lines for HR and budget lines for activity costs and calculate costs product? What is your communication one-liner to get them to buy your product? Project title etc. Define a good price for this product. Make them an offer that they cannot refuse. Prepare a two minute sales speach
We are in this together now Joint applications → make deals today Need contents input → arrange this today Need fund opportunities → inform yourself today Need great fundable ideas? → you did not pay attention the past three days? → look into the FFE project plan and budget Need co-writers / draft application reviewers?
The thinking Great idea for yourself Great idea for the funder Great idea communication package Concrete activities Human resources Precalculations Attractive writing Done deal!
Benefits of our network Use each others contacts at funds Use each others ideas Copy proposals! Joint applications Not contents but fundraising should be the talk of the town
Options fundraising FFE co-finance Fundraise exact same activities as in FFE project → releases budget for other purposes Fundraise same but extended activities → larger activities, larger distribution etc Fundraise for FFE-activities and non-FFE activities → complicated but possible Fundraise for non FFE-activities: requests to change activities to EU Joint applications with non-FFE-partners → complicated and to be avoided
Helpdesk Main contact person fundraising Jeroen Questions about your progress in meeting your co-finance obligations? Zsuzsa Great ideas about fundable bits? Adrian/Jeroen Assistence/reviews budgets Jeroen Assistence/reviews texts Adrian