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The sole reason is failure to meet the timelines given for the implementation of an initiative funded by donors hence creating a sense of laxity, inefficiency and ineffectiveness towards realization of the intended impact and need.

Definitely convinced

Hi, let discuss this topic, Fundraising.

Fundraising capacity does not simply refer to raising more funds.

Initiate the organization source funds from the founder saving and contribution from friends and family.

Hey let look this, Finance nd Accounting nd compliance.
Finance nd Accounting refer to budgeting financial planning nd other tasks required to ensure the organization.

Yes thats an alternative way that can get your organization funding

@LawrenceKariuki said in Module 3: Obstacles:

I'm unaware of funders within my area of specialisation.

What have you done to fine out?

Ability to provide a proof to funders how to manage funding is as core integrity to attract more money to be injected to an organization.

In the past, funding for our organization has come from one stream, one event. The main obstacle has been keeping it going year round and having impact year round.

The biggest obstacle is also about how the resources will be managed.

I haven't started fundraising for my organization yet but it has been difficult because (1) the organization did not have a physical address and (2) the organization technically only has one employee. Funders did not feel confident in funding a single person to implement programs.

The main obstacle that we faced is to convincing the doners, that they will get benefits in short term. They were worrying about the revenues that they will get in return.

some of the obstacles or challenges my organization has had include;

1. we are not yet known by the people since we are just beginning.
2. people haven't trusted us yet

The main obstacle has been identifying the category of funders that will be relevant to the objectives of our organizations.

In the past my organization has struggled to determine its immediate needs. This has led to difficulty articulating needs to funders whenever impromptu opportunities to gain access to resources materialize.

One of my main challenge is access to potential investors or funder and inability to find funder that is Aline with the vision of my organization

Being a good advocate will help coming up with solutions to overcome obstacles.

I have started fundraising for my organization and we faced lots of obstacles. There are some people out there who are willing to fund an organization and some too are not willing to.
Three main obstacles my organization has had with getting funding and resources in the past are:

1. Popularity of my organization - my organization was not well known and so reaching out to people was an obstacle for us.
2. Convincing donors - we connected with some people who were willing to donate but they were not convinced because their interests did not match with ours.
3. Inability to stay in touch with networked people - applying, delivering and sending out sponsorship letter of enquiries is also a great way of reaching out to companies and individuals for funds. We were unable to consecutively check up on them through follow up calls or emails.

Yes and the proof should documented as well.

the challenge has bee to identify funders in our line of work and grafting pitches.

very similar to our own experience

Not knowing willing funders and how to reach them

Getting detail of funding opportunity, due diligence for funding and a best qualified proposal for funding .

Capacity building effort will help in achieving our mission by this we can understand strength of our organization skill of our staff .and resources available with us

How to identify funders

By training my staff on how to collect, analyse and interpret data we will be able to make more informed decisions which will help us in creating more impact

As for mine most times its the attitude of trust. People are still in doubt about where their money is been spent. Most times because of their experiences in the past they still believe that people will take their funds and will not use it for the right purpose

I think a key challenge is knowing who would actually fund us and convincing them to do so

by discussion with other we will about to explore new alternative to your problems and can find new opportunities too

by discussion with other we will about to explore new alternative to your problems and can find new opportunities too obstcles make our efforts vulnerable that can be evaluated in order to its impact on the community

by discussion with other we will about to explore new alternative to your problems and can find new opportunities too obstcles make our efforts vulnerable that can be evaluated in order to its impact on the community

by discussion with other we will about to explore new alternative to your problems and can find new opportunities too obstcles make our efforts vulnerable that can be evaluated in order to its impact on the community
1.Accountability 2. integrity 3, self motivation

I echo your difficulty, my organization has no employees currently and is entirely volunteer-based. The program they want to start will require paid staff, and significant capital development; it's hard to pitch that to donors for a totally new project.

I echo your difficulty, my organization has no employees currently and is entirely volunteer-based. The program they want to start will require paid staff, and significant capital development; it's hard to pitch that to donors for a totally new project.

We have definitely struggled with getting funding for research projects in the past because not many funders are willing to fund research even though they agree that data is important. I will say the same also goes for funding capacity building programs for employees of your organization as they struggle to see how it will impact beneficiaries.

We have definitely struggled with getting funding for research projects in the past because not many funders are willing to fund research even though they agree that data is important. I will say the same also goes for funding capacity building programs for employees of your organization as they struggle to see how it will impact beneficiaries.

Well I am unaware of the existing funders and also i may be aware of some but fail to get contacts of them.

Ability to develop a compelling rationale to funders has been a major setback.
Capacity building in the area of strategy will enable us connect the dots and align our rationale to a clear and sustainable mission. By coming up with reasons why our efforts will create positive and sustainable impact in the organization, its strategy and directly to its beneficiaries, I believe the setback can be averted.

The main obstacle in getting funding and other resources is not knowing willing funders but lies in writing a good and sound rationale that is convincing and compelling to the donors. Exactly, the tenets to such a compelling rationale evades me at times as even getting such funding in the past has been attributed to chance or regional issues and also the need to be accomodative or included. I would really like to learn more about this and make it replicated. That should really give confidence to the process rather than a chance event.

One of the main obstacles to getting funding to build MEL capacity and capability is that MEL is often seen as "after thought", something that is considered nice to have but not really central to the business of delivering services. The paradox is that when you have a good MEL system in place it can demonstrate results and attract funding.

The main challenge is putting together a good proposal to request funding for a particular activity. This makes it difficult for current funders to fund more because convincing them becomes a challenge.

The sole reason of failure in getting funds for capacity building is that the donor sometime does not understand the impact of capacity building for the beneficiary and donor is only willing to fund for the projects that are directly benefitting the beneficiary. Most of the individual funders specially are not even willing to give managerial cost of projects.

for me the the sole reason is getting in contact because most of the funders live and work outside my environments others is on convincing them to fund the project

trying to have constant funding and not just a one time a year main event is a huge problem.

this does cause issues

my team leads interacts with ecosystem builders to attract fundings is scary to say the least.

Most donors believe that the capacity building activities are not necessary for the organisation where they believe qualified persons are selected and recruited.

In my organization Funding has been an essential tool to sustain the organization. but we have had weaknesses of getting what we exactly want from funders, we have funders and have reached them, and we need more funders, but the right sources needed is what we are getting from this course now. data through ME& L and capacity building. I am so sure that funders honestly need to help my organization and i am so sure that now i have discovered everything i need from this course.

Yes, short timing in the implementation of getting funds and donor, can also result ineffective and inefficient.

Some of the challenges we face with raising funds did our projects is the fact that we constantly have so many projects running at the same time.

Funders might find it a bit cumbersome to be informed of multiple projects going on at the same time.

the main obstacle is to convince the parties on the need of the resources. A lot odf bureaucracy and long timelines to get approval

It is actually a combination. The lack of awareness of funders willing to help the organization? Where are such groups located, and what does one do to find them? Not knowing has been a humongous headache in resolving issues that call for capacity funding.

The struggle to get in contact with funders is real. You write an email and nothing comes back, leaving you wondering what you did wrong. Asking whether it was that they were just not convinced... or was it something else?

I also had the same experience

I also experienced this

I had lots of problems confronting the funders

Special case our association went through a stage where we tried to pilker its resources, since the founder no longer trusted the members of the association, which constrained the evolution of the association (which is linked to a lack of dynamism in the leadership and talent part). and during the time when the expansion phase was favorable with respect to the socio-political and economic situation of the country. but from my integration, I wanted to follow the vision, set up other action plans, set better objectives... in order to really facilitate the lives of the beneficiaries considerably while the political crisis is arising a security crisis throughout the country potential funders have moved to where the economic crisis has caused, while much more than before we are obliged to act in favor of the poorest, the unemployed and especially the less trained in order to reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency. Yet the big question is where to find the starting fund in such situations?