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Hello,I am Sulaiman Kamara from Sierra Leone.I am happy to be here

Hi gang!!!

My name is Gerardo de Vega, I am from Costa Rica. I work for an NGO/ Foundation called Fundación Madre Tierra Verde. I usually do project management work and I am a specialist in the fields of technology, education, and sustainability.

I am really hoping to learn how to properly set up fundraising activities, methodologies, and have a successful monetary streamline.

Hie everyone, I am Michael from Malawi. i am a social activists. I joined this course to help me with an NGO i head Grace 127 Project in Malawi

Hello friends I am Ifeanyi Aaron Aguchukwu from Nigeria, male and works with Community Children in Eastern Nigeria.
I intend to start a community Pre-school with a Child DayCare facility soon.I presently concentrate on out of school children.
i am interested in this courser because it will enhance my fundraising skill.Must of the children within my care come from very poor homes and i really need to source for funds to keep the organization going.
I need skill on how to get donors and also learn how to do periodic fund raising.
This is why i am here.
Hope i am welcomed?
Thanks.

Hello everyone! My name is Mahomed Said, pastor, project manager, lecturer and missions director at Emmanuel Wesleyan Church. I live in Xai-Xai, Mozambique. Ready to learn from you all.

Hello!!! My name is Makendo Destine. I work for an organization. I have a desire to learn more. I live in Haiti.

Hi Everyone!
Greetings from Colombia!
I'm Natalia and I'm looking forward to learn more about financing for development projects, specifically related to food, nutrition and health in my community. I'm willing to learn and share ideas with all of you guys!

Happy learning!

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Hello friends,
Greetings from Kerala !My name is Devasia, joining from India ,state of Kerala. I am entrepreneur of Tour & Travel company. My goal for this course is to specialize the Fund raising more effective and planning for to utilize the funds which serves the rural tribal in vulnerable situation , victims of violence or who have suffered the discriminations , illiteracy and poverty.
with regards
thank you.

@NataliaC_1991 said in Introduce Yourself in Introduction to Fundraising:

Hi Everyone!
Greetings from Colombia!
I'm Natalia and I'm looking forward to learn more about financing for development projects, specifically related to food, nutrition and health in my community. I'm willing to learn and share ideas with all of you guys!

Happy learning!

Hai friends ,
Greetings from Kerala !! Thank you for join with you. It is a pleasure to learn from PHILANTHROPY UNIVERSITY, under the guidance of respected writer, founder, and the principal of this University and our instructor respected TOM WOLF.

Hi Everyone,
My name Anne from Nigeria, I work with an NGO named Tranquil Youth Organisation of Nigeria(TYON). I seek to acquire in depth knowledge on fundraising so I can help raise fund for the Organization to carry out its mission of empowering youths in Nigeria.

Hello everyone, my name is Apio Priscilla from Uganda, statistician, working with children as a children worker, looking forward to learn and understand deeply about fund raising and developing skills that i can use to ensure i can do perfect fundraising for my organization, thank you

My name : NIYUNGEKO REMY,
Country: Rwanda, Eastern Central Africa
I'm interested to this course to be able to raise fund for "Nature Preservation for Sustainable development" this is an organization I work with, it is just in process of registration but has some project we want to further.

My name is Remy, from Rwanda, I want to learn how to write a proposal requesting for funds and eventually be able to apply for my organization. Hope i'm in the good place

Hello and greetings from Afghanistan.

I am Azizollah Rezaei. I am a founding member of village Development Organization (VDO). Durrently I work as program manager at VDO, and therefore, I want to enhance my knowledge about fundraisig. I am super excited to have joined this amazing course and am looking forward to learn from others and share experiences.

Greetings i'm Abass Kargbo from The Gambia

My name is Stacy, from the US. I used to be a teacher, but I just began a job in fund development at an organization that partners with orthopaedic surgeons in low- to middle-income countries to provide implants and education. Since I am so new to the field, I am taking this course to learn the basics: terminology and various models of fund development strategy. I am most excited to learn how to help my organization tweak its fund development strategy in small ways that can have a big impact on our funding!

Hi Abass! It is exciting for me to see such a range of different countries represented here! Do you work for a nonprofit in The Gambia? What kind of organization is it?

Hello, Azizollah. Can you tell me more about the Village Development Organization? I am excited to see so many different countries represented here!

Hello, Remy. Your organization sounds wonderful, just from the title! What kinds of projects do you want to start?

hello every one, my name is Melvin Mattia. i work for a non profit organization and i am also an entrepreneur. i am a sierra leonean by nationality. i want to be a job creator, so i want to learn this course tto understand the various fund raising strategies and o be able to raise fund for my community based organization

Hello. Am Ponny Georgina from Uganda (East Africa). I'm a Finance Assistant/Human Resource/Administrator in an NGO. Pursuing this course will increase my knowledge on fundraising.

Greetings to all fellow learners. I am from the Philippines. I hope to learn about effectively seeking funds to support developmental initiatives.

Hello my dear colleagues, hope you all doing great
I’m hamza and having working experience over three years in the community organization’s. I’m from egypt and looking forward to improve my skill in fundraising and donor acquisition.

Wish you all the best

Qais from afghanistan nice to meet you all!

Hello! My name is Kristine and I am from Florida, USA. I am working on opening a non-profit and I am excited to learn fundraising strategies!

Hello, I am Diego from Peru. An accounting and entrepreneur, I am hoping to learn about how to get some financial resources to my organization. I want to share some ideas and ask for some information that I do not know. Thank you.

Hi everyone, my name is Maja. I am working for an NGO in South Africa. I want to intensify my knowledge in fundraising so I can help our programmes (a babies home, preschool and teacher training). I am also interested in meeting new people and exchange knowledge.

I am the Project Management Specialist at Nutri-Aid Trust, a small non-profit organization, in Zambia. I have taken on a new responsibility of supporting the team with fundraising. I look forward to learning the basics and viable strategies to successful fundraising.

Hello,

Introduce yourself to the others in this course (name, country, industry/field of work).My name is Dennis Kinyanjui;
I live in Nairobi, Kenya; Am a business Analyst.

What are your goals for the course, and how do you plan to apply them in your work? My goal for this course is to learn more how to raise fund for my organization.

What are you most excited to learn? Fundraising and the myths behind fundraising.

Hi, you are welcome.

Hi.
my name is Rosemary

Hello
My name is Rosemary, I live in Nairobi Kenya, I am in the legal profession and I am interested in demystifying fundraising and am very excited about the same.
Thankyou.

Hi everyone, I am Valerie from Germany! I own a digital marketing agency for nonprofits and I want to give my clients even better marketing results by having a deep understanding of their business. :D

Hello I am YOFENDE Basil NGWA-AH. I am from Cameroon and I am an M & E officer with the Reconciliation and Development Association Bamenda. Also I am a peace advocate. I am excited to be here to learn fund raising and to share my own ideas with learners across the world
Thanks

hello everyone.
i am khushi. i am eager to know everything about fundraising so that i can also contribute my ideas for betterment of the society.

Hello every one.
i am Habtamu, from Ethiopia; starting to take part in the course introduction to fund raising. i am new to the course and waiting your support. thanks

Hello everyone.
Lovemore Banda here from Malawi. Doing PM so I this course is an addition to my Project Management.

Awesome. Me too

Hi my name is William Alsobrook, I am a alumni of the 1st Social Sector Leadership Program in 2016

Hello
My name is Michel YEDOH, I live in Senegal. I run a firm specializing in supporting organizations in project management and training.
I will be very happy to discuss with everyone and if possible join a team to make our exchanges fruitful.
Thank You

Hello everyone i am Haimanti Sarkar from Bangladesh a lawyer by profession and Human Rights activist by passion .i belong from marginalized indigenous community who called Adivashi in our country,willing to share the experience i have gathered from my grassroots level of work and wants to learn the way we should communicate with international community for betterment of my people's and organization .

Hi Michel ! will love to learn the social or legal issues you have to face to run you organization ! thanks

Hi Valerie ! how the concept of digital marketing works for nonprofits organizations ?

Hello Everyone, My name is Ololade Adebola from Nigeria, A Business Administrator... I am glad to be here, i am willing to learn, share ideas, apply those ideas in my Fundraising Course learning Process to my reality in Nigeria.

Hi, my name is David Adeiza i am an Agribusiness developer and i work in the Non-Profit space to provide business solutions for Smallholder farmers. I am here to learn more about fund raising to support the work we do

Hello Everyone, I am Mallikarjun from India and presently working as Marine Engineer. I have enrolled in this course to transition into development sector and understand the functioning of not-for-profit organisation and how it works to raise money for a Project/ campaign. I am hoping to have good knowledge sharing on this platform.

Hello, I am Maryam Inna Garba from Nigeria.

I am currently an Independent Advocate with NGO work experience on some thematic issues.

I am excited to join this course as it will provide additional and sustainable value to my work.

Hey Everyone my names are Erick Waweru Mwai from Kenya. Am currently working at Youth safety awareness initiative is a non profitable organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
My goal is to learn how to draft a fundraising proposal for my project. I want to learn how fundraising is done and help me fund raise for my upcoming project.

Hello Friends from all over the world! My names are Brian Wamubeyi, from Kenya. I am a Geographer and Geo-information Scientist by profession, a Project Management practitioner, an environmental and renewable energy enthusiast, a freelance consultant in a wide range of fields, and above all, Founder and Director of www.geo-apnet.co.ke. Looking forward to share my experiences with you guys, and benefit from you and the course for the betterment of my efforts to make a better world for others, more so by unlocking the potential resources to drive programmes and organisations that I interact for and work with. I am very excited because of the self-paced functionality of this platform, and the short duration of the curriculum.

Greetings Everyone!
I’m Maya and I’m from the United States but I’m currently in Tanzania. I’m the cofounder of Golden Aya Corp.

I hope to network with other nonprofits and learn new fundraising strategies. My team and I will hold brainstorming sessions to implement the learned strategies.

I’m excited to see results from the strategies learned here.

Nice to meet you! You are quite experienced. And I’m sure your input will and value to the course. I’m looking forward to connecting with you.

Greetings, same here.

Hi everyone. My name is Oladipupo Anna Akolade, I'm Nigerian.
I work for GTP (gospel to the poor) as the admin and finance manager, and I'd like to increase my knowledge on fundraising so that I'd be able to work better.

halloooooo

Hi everyone, I'm Olaoluwa Ogunleke a Business development intern at a tech startup, I'd like to know more about fundraising to contribute and help my organization in the fundraising stage. I'm open to new ideas and i 'm hoping to network with great minds here

Hiiii, nice to meet you

oh yeah i'm from Nigeria, I work in Lagos Nigeria

Hi, nice to meet you

Hii, I'm Ola and I'm hoping we can share knowledge and ideas

Hello everyone my name is stephanie savai from Kenya. I am a Program Manager working in the WASH sector in South Sudan. Am excited to learn indepth fundraising skills because not only will this improve my employability but it will also help me be a better program manager.

Nice to meet you Ola, sure we can!

Hi my name is Eldrich Muller. I work for an NGO which specializes in recycling plastic. I do the administrative work there in terms of data management. Our company is on the lookout for ways to raise some money and I would like to be more able to give advise. I would really like to implement the principles of fundraising.

Hello all. This is Graco Paredes from Honduras and currently living in Costa Rica. Most of my life I've worked for multinationals and have been on the donor side in some projects. I’m exploring a career change and wish to learn about fund raising in the academia, environmental and cultural sectors.

nice and great!

Hello, My name is Ron Cryer and i am a Canadian residing in Colombia. I am taking this course as I am very interested in fund giving from the digital point of view. I look forward to learning all of the aspects involved with it.

Hello everyone! My name is Brigid Chilande Muasa. I am from Kenya, I just completed my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Community Development at St. Paul's University, my graduation is in October this year. I also did Planning Monitoring and Evaluation at Philanthropy University and I believe that Introduction in Fundraising will equip me with the much needed skills to organize activities to raise funds for projects.

Hi everyone! My name is Ellen Silva, I work with International Relations, Fundraising, Public Policy among others for more than ten years. I´ve aleady worked at different UN Agencies, such as UNDP, UNOPS, UNESCO. I also worked at IICA, another International Organization. I had the chance to work for the Government, NGO´s and Private Company in different areas. It will be a pleasue to do this course with you all! I love to chat, so feel free. Wish you all a great weekend. :)

Hello everyone, I'm Eda. I live and study a master's degree in Italy at the moment. I am currently doing an internship for a non-profit on project development and fundraising. Therefore, I want to get some more knowledge on the essentials of fundraising.

Hi everyone, my name is Patrick and I currently work as a healthcare consultant. I'm looking to make a career switch to non-profit work and am excited to expand my knowledge of fundraising.

Thanks!

Hello my name is Jocelyn. I live in Oregon, USA. I am a volunteer fundraiser for Les Amis (Friends of) Saint Camille which is a foundation (NGO) in Canada which supports Association Saint Camille, a mental health provider (NGO) in Benin, Togo and Ivory Coast.

Hie everyone am Elvis from Malawi .nice to meet you all

My name is Christian Shema, I am a financial Consultant based in Mozambique, I am registered accountant who works with many NGOs. I am interested in this course to further my knowledge in the NGO field, I often offer my expertise by volunteering with non-profit organisations.

I am George Ndukwu from Nigeria

Hello there. My name is Nizar and I am a student from France. I am currently doing an internship at Rottenecker Consulting, fundraising and development support for vibrant social and robust civil societies. I am looking forward to learning the tools and techniques to lead a proper fundraising research. I would like to optimize my time while being more effective, when it comes to look for funds for NGOs.

Hello nice people! My name is Sabina Salimovska and I support the organization called Roma Rock School from North Macedonia. I work in an NGO in Germany, teach in university and I am a human right activist. I am dedicated in work with Education especially of Roma children, Children's Rights, Migration and Anti-discrimination. I am very happy to have the opportunity to learn at this platform and get to know so many people.

Hi. I am recently retired and looking for information to help a couple of nonprofits that I interact with.

Hi all -

1. I'm Benita Blessing and I am a faculty member at Oregon State University, and Operations Director at the German Studies Association (my professional organization).
2. My goals are to learn how to get more people in my organizations engaged in philanthropic donations who don't normally think of themselves as "donors."
3. I'm most excited about bringing back new ideas to my colleagues that I discuss in this course!
   -Benita

Hi all -

1. I'm Benita Blessing and I am a faculty member at Oregon State University, and Operations Director at the German Studies Association (my professional organization).
2. My goals are to learn how to get more people in my organizations engaged in philanthropic donations who don't normally think of themselves as "donors."
3. I'm most excited about bringing back new ideas to my colleagues that I discuss in this course!
   -Benita

Hi Jocelyn, I'm also in Oregon! Nice to see a fellow PNW-er here.

Hi Sabina - I'm looking forward to learning more about your work. I teach a unit on Roma and Senti in a history class on the Holocaust, and look forward to learning together with you.

Hi! I'm Jonathan Kaplan. I'm a Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. I'm interested in learning more about fundraising and development. I'm excited to learn more about how to talk to both our development professionals and to prospective donors.

Hi Nizar! The goal of creating civil societies that are both vibrant and robust is incredibly timely! What a great project!

I can imagine that coming at this from the accounting side must give you a very different perspective from those that are coming at it from e.g. project planning. I look forward to hearing more about your work and plans!

Hi all,

I am Stanley joining from Nigeria. i am a working with an Ehealth Africa, i sought this course to improve my skills in fundraising and Business development for Non Govermental Organisations, and i am excited to learn new techniques and strategiss of fund raising

Good day fellow student, my names are Engineer Emeka Kama, a structural civil engineer and a project manager also, CEO of Non-Profit Organisation called VISIONED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, from Nigeria. We train and develop skills in different vocations, most especially, those that are not priviledged to attend conventioal schools due to poor background or lack of fund. At the end of their programmes, Visioned Skills Development Centre (VSDC) help some of them who performed better in their studies with small start up fund, as a way of rewarding them for their good determination to learn.
I strongly beleived that, studing FUNDRAISING will widen my scopes on how to source for grant to empower the NGO for better operation, which will in turn impart the students positively.

Hi Mohammed nice meeting u

Hi Dear, I'm very much glad to meet you

My name is Patrick Joe Apreku Owoo I'm a Ghanaian I am a marketing manager and Project manager for West African Christian Peace and Education Foundation, I have a BA in Administration and I sought this course to specialize to work in the NGO where I am a working as a donor relation officer in fundraising, which serves children and women in vulnerable situations, victims of violence or who have suffered some discrimination.

nice meeting you Gabriel

My name is Mzikazi Ntuli. I am from South Africa even though I am based in Mozambique. I am a mother, a passionate human rights activist, an Entrepreneur, and co-founder of a company that promotes innovative and technological solutions. I also do a lot of consultancy work in the areas of education, Sexual and Reproductive health, gender and women empowerment issues.
I am delighted to be doing this course. My goal is to learn how to write winning proposals. I have been doing fund-raising work for the past 15 years and writing proposals. I however feel that I have not been as successful in my endeavors as I would like to be. There are so many developments in this field, new terminology and ways of approaching fundraising that I believe is eluding me and has contributed to me feeling a bit disillusioned.
I believe that the personal and professional networks I will identify and cultivate during this course will help me to strengthen those areas of my weakness and help me raise capital in the area that I am now branching into which is Venture Capital for my company. I believe that I will get new professional tools I will use to grow my business and help more women enterprises.
I am most excited to learn the right language as it will increase chances of me raising more funds

Please to meet you!

Will be thrilled to learn more about your work

My name is ENGR. DR. KAMA-EMEKA ISRAEL, from Nigeria

I am Kushinga Sandura based in Cape town South Africa. I want to learn how to raise funds to support the community gardening project that i am working on.

Hello everyone! I am Carol Pinto - signing in from the far north of Canada. I am in the process of setting up an NGO and I am looking forward to learning from this course.

Hi, my name is Seye from Nigeria, an account officer with an NGO. I am so excited about this course because it will open me up in the area of Fundraising inturn help my organization

My Name is Mrs Mphata , from South Africa , currently working in the Development sector ( specializing in Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Project design and management , fundraising )

My goals for enrolling for this course to understand fundamentals of fundraising and also learn more about various methods and approach to fundraising. I intern to use the knowledge acquired in this course in assisting the organizations that i am currently providing service to .

My name is Albert Oko from Nigeria. Am very excited to be part of this course, open to learning new things, share and accept new ideas, apply those ideas in my Fund-raising quest.

Hello everyone. My name is Sergio from Costa Rica. Entrepreneur, Product Designer and Tech Ed promoter.
I am working to reduce the technology gap due to gender or geographical location with a scholarship initiative for coding school.
Looking forward to learning and sharing experiences with so many people from around the round.