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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.

Hi, My name is Olinda, I'm join with you because I see that here is the ideal place where I can learn about various topics that interest me and that can help my professional and personal growth

Hello every one around the world who take this course
am Temesgen from East Africa Ethiopia
My goals for the course are to get first and in depth knowledge on fundraising, and going to be good in the area.
am excited in this course because of that it will increase my capacity or understanding in the area

Hello Everyone, I am Abdullah from Bangladesh. I am working as Senior Officer, Monitoring at BRAC that is number one non profit organization of the world. I am here to learn funding issues for helping NGOs of my country for working marginalized people.

Hello Everyone,
I'm Ayomide Daniel, a Nigerian, Lead Head at Meek 'N' Lowly Hearts Initiative a non-profit making organization poised to breed a well cultured uprising generation with vocational and digital skills.

I'm open to acquire new methodologies in fundraising, requesting grant etc., and also infusing all of these in my NGO in total fulfilment of my Sustainable Community Social Responsibility Project.

I know this will be great for me and others, I also anticipate to meeting passionate people in this sphere of influence.

Thank you.

Pleased to meet you

Pleased to have you here

Hi Every one . This is Francis from Ghana . Am here to learn and use the knowledge to improve my work.

Hello I am Jennifer from Texas. I am in the healthcare field and i am excited to get started.

Hi everyone, my Name is Aishat Babaji. I hold a BA in Media communications. I am looking at mastering in International studies. I'm yet to figure out which country would be the best. I am currently working with an NGO that caters for women and children in less privileged communities. MY favorite statement to sy concerning the NGO is "one community at a time I've always wanted to work with a foundation....not completely sure if one day ill own my own...but i love helping people. i had a very rough childhood not because of finances or friends. i didn't feel loved at home i couldn't understand why i wasn't being raised with my mom and dad together. Th e feeling of emptiness creeps up once in awhile. So I'm here now to ensure other children don't feel left out or left behind. No one deserves to.

Hello everyone, I am Anyikeng from cameroon and I am a Senior Youth and Action Counsellor working in the ministry of Youths in my country. I am glad to join you all in this introductory course to fund Raising .

I will be Glad and open to learn and share ideas and experiences from you all.

I hold a BA in English Modern letters and translation and a professional masters in Animation and as option Recrealogy. Hope I am welcomed ?

Hi everyone, I am Akeela Marin and I'm a communications specialist. I volunteer with a number of NGOs in Trinidad and Tobago and I'm hoping to learn some fundamental skills to improve our fund raising efforts.

Hello my name is Bones and I'm from the U.S.

Hello everyone, My name is Sáibo Nahoye, from Mozambique, a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Information Systems Manager, at Fundação Ariel Glaser ... I am very happy to be here, willing to learn, share ideas, apply these ideas in my fundraiser Course learning process.

Hi everyone
I'm Sharon from South Africa. I'm what's commonly referred to as an armchair activist. My goal is to learn all I can about fundraising to offer my services to organisations assisting the Palestinian people.

hello everyone my name is kitts karake from uganda and am happy to be here to learn about fundraising.
am planning to start my organisation.
my goal is to create social impact among children through education.

Hello 👋
My Name is Momoh S Kamara from Sierra Leone West Africa.
Iam an activist and the National Coordinator/Director for the CYPA-SL and also the Secretary General of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Bo Sierra Leone.
I hope to cascade this fund raising knowledge to Collegues in the project department of the Organization and to further use the Idea to promote the Organization and the operational Communities...
This fund raising course will help me a lot in creating funds for the development and promotion of the organization in the Society.

Hallo everyone, Am Rose Kavita from Kenya, Africa and am a resource mobilization officer in my current non profit organization. My goals for this course is to gain knowledge and skills on how to identify potential donors and to apply the acquired skill to identify and attract donors for my organization. Am very exited to learn most on donor mapping.

Hello Everyone, I am Shalom Adedeji from Nigeria. A Student and an enthusiastic learner.

Good Day Everyone, I am Emmanuel Mahee Coleman from Liberia. I am a Public Financial Management Officer at the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission. I am very excited to enroll in this course. I hope to gain insight on fund raising strategies that are useful for NGOs, the private and public sectors.

Hi All, I'm Keli Rutan-Jorgensen from the US. I am a program associate for a small international nonprofit organization called ExpandNet. We are exploring a list of potential funders and developing a strategy for reaching out to them. Since I am new in my position, I am taking this course to get a fuller sense of how to plan and reach out to funders. Also I want to make sure I will be using the right vocabulary when doing so.

Hi everyone! My name is Emily and I just started a job as the Development Director for Advancing Girls' Education in Africa. I'm based in Washington, DC. My goals for the course are to gain knowledge and skills that I can directly apply to my work context to increase fundraising outcomes.

Hi everyone,
I am Vanessa from Kenya. Happy to be here to learn on fundraising and be able to assist and make an impact in development of the needy. Have someone smile again.

Hello Everyone,
My name is Delvonne Duncombe, I live in the Bahamas on the Island of New Providence. I am currently employed in the Military as an executive Officer of one of our Patrol Crafts. I enrolled in this course because i am the president and founder of the CHANGE Organization. I hope to learn more about the subject matter of fundraising as this will help to move my program forward to have the impact that I desire on our nations youth through its programming. I look forward to interacting with as many of you who have enrolled in this program.

Have a great day!

Hello,
It is a pleasure sharing this course with you.

Hi,
Nice meeting you, i hope you get as much out of this course as i intend to.

Delvonne,

Hi Everyone,

I am Udomchai from Bangkok, Thailand.

Nice to share comments with you.

Thank you

Hellow everyone;

I am Vagafu Fagu from Papua New Guinea. I am in Project Management. I am passionate to learn this course to gain the knowledge on fundraising, to network with potential donors to raise funds for my projects. I am currently involved in supporting rural villages in implementing sustainable development projects.

OK great i encourage you to keep on learning abd Master all principes surrounding this course good luck.

My name is Mwape and I am from Zambia. My goal and excitement is becoming a great fundraising , and support my team in leveraging resources to support our mission/vision.

Hai everyone!
I'm Dinda from Indonesia and work with Greeneration Foundation as a Fundraising Manager. We are NGO that focuses on sustainability, consumption, and production in Indonesia. I look forward to knowing more about fundraising and the strategies, to can apply it in a pool of fundraising my Organization

Hello everyone! My name is Simone, I'm from Italy working for AVSI Foundation. I am about to travel to Rwanda as a project junior officer.

Hi everyone,am Anne Nyada from Kenya,a teacher,an education consultant and an entrepreneur.Am delighted to be here,ready to learn, share ideas and use the knowledge obtained here to grow my organization.

Hi all,

My name is Delaney, I'm from the US and currently work with a local nonprofit. I hope to get more comfortable asking potential donors to donate and will use what I learn in our next fundraising campaign. I'm excited to learn hopefully some creative ways to ask and fundraise.

From Tanzania, hallow to everyone..... with a keen interest in Fundraising, hope the discussion board will be of great assistance to my learning

Good day my name is Ontatlhile Justin Selatlho. I am in Botswana. I hold Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration. I assist human rights organizations now and then as I am currently unemployed.

Hi Everyone! I am Dorra Guedri from Tunisia and currently a Grants specialist/ officer in FHI360 Tunisia.
I am pleased to be here and ready to learn , contribute and apply fundraising knowledge.

Hello. My name is Bolanle. I am a communications and PR professional and I've always been informally involved in fundraising for projects and community groups.

Hi everyone, my name is Adeshola Adegbite and I'm from Nigeria and a graduate of Urban and Regional planning from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology. I run a digital agency called Inclide ( inclide.com ). I've always had a thing about volunteering and giving back and I realised many organizations and charities have issues with raising funds so that's why I I'm taking this course so hopefully I can help them achieve their aim and do something for the greater good of humanity.
Also, I hope to have my own NGO in the future so this is something that will come in handy.
I hope I get to meet others like me.
Cheers, all the way from the sweet country of Nigeria.

Welcome Balanle, nice to meet you. You can join my team and let's get started together.

Welcome Shalom. My name is Adeshola and I hope we can work together. You can join my team let's get started

Hi Akoko, welcome to the group. Enjoy your day

Welcome Ayo, pleased to have you here.
I hope we can work together someday.

Nice to have you here.

Nice to meet you Benita

Nice to meet you Benita

Hello everyone, I am Edna Sofia its a pleasure to make part of this platform and group of studies. I am Mozambican who is working in a poultry project now. In this course I pretend to be able to connect to donors and make me and donors and other people involved in the project satisfied with the work we develop, I think that what I am most excited to learn is the practice of the entire process which will give the ability to achieve my goal.

Hi,my name is Cassimo Gulamo and I from Mozambique. I am a Project Management specialist and I have worked in some non-profit associations such AMVIRO

Hello everyone, My name is Athanase RUkundo from Rwanda. I am currently working in the nonprofit sector and I want to enhance my fundraising skills. I am excited to be part of this community taking this specialization together. Happy to connect with everyone

Hello everyone, I am Simone from Hong Kong. I have been volunteering and working with various NGOs for the last few years. I would like to learn more about the fundamentals and systematic approaches to fundraising in order to be of better use to NGOs which desperately need expanding their funding capacity.

Hello Delany, just wanted to say "hi". I also wanted to learn to be more effective in fundraising for NGOs.

Hello Everyone, good to be here. I am from Nigeria. my goal for taking his course is to enhance m capacity for fundraising as i take on a new role in international cooperation in my organization.

Hi Ganga, nice to meet you, could tell me more about the work you do in India?

Hi Everyone!

My name is Ellie and I am Australian. I am currently a Livestreaming Fundraising Assistant at WWF-Australia and am happy to be completing this course with the colleagues in my team at WWF.

Hi Everyone!

My name is Ellie and I am Australian. I am currently a Livestreaming Fundraising Assistant at WWF-Australia and am happy to be completing this course with the colleagues in my team at WWF.

Hi
My Name is Colin, From South Africa, My Organization is East Rand Excellent Soccer Academy. I am an Executive Business Administrator

My Goals for this course is to learn how can i improve my strategy to fit within the fundraiser and attract more donors to help my organization, the organization is currently running with minimum funds which don't meet all the requirements we need to function/run the organization to its full potential.

I have come across the 4 Financial Support which i didn't know well and or never hear of them before how will they help me restructure my proposals in order to get good fit donors

I am so excited i came across Philanthropy, hopefull i will gain more as i go along.

Hi Everyone

Is there anyone from South Africa Please respond

Hello! My name is Caitlin and I'm from Australia. I work as a fundraising administrator for a range of fundraising channels at an environmental nfp. I'm really excited to be here and hope to learn more about fundraising as I progress in my career as a fundraiser.

Hello everyone,
I am Hosna and I completed my bachelor in Commerce and started working in a NGO as accountant .
I am passionate to learn about fundraising and the the terms and technics applied by donor and the organization.

Hi all. I'm Karen Mandy, Director of Rediscovering Me Ltd which runs a global, online, good-deeds network for women called How Bright Can We Shine. We link businesses, volunteers and small social projects together, to impact communities around the world. I'm excited to take this course so that I can advise our project hosts on better ways to fundraise.

Hi, I'm from eSwatini, so I guess that we are technically, neighbours.

Hi Simone. Nice to meet you. I'm based on the other side of the world in southern Africa, but have connections in Hong Kong.

Hi Everyone!!
My name is Nikhil Kumar. I am from India. Currently, I am pursuing MA in Development Management from Madras School of Social Work. As we know that it is very difficult to run any organization without funding so I want to learn this fundraising through this course. So that in the future I can give my best by working for any development organization.

Hello everyone, I am Chris from Texas, USA. I am here to learn how to engage and get active, sustainable responsiveness from donors. There are many social issues to be tackled in our current state of the world, and I want to do my part to try and solve them.

That's awesome that you have devoted your life and education to social causes. I hope we can all get the most out of this course. Good Luck!

Helo! My name is Claudete, I am a lawyer and for 6 years I have been raising funds for the Social Projects of the NGO Cepac in São Paulo/ Brazil. I'm super excited to learn more about fundraising, especially fundraising with individuals. Thanks for the opportunity. Let's go there.

Hi Everyone!!
My name is Nikhil Kumar. Currently I am pursuing M.A. in Development Management from Madras School of Social Work. I want to learn this course because in future I want to raise fund for any organization where I will work in future and for my own organization if I will establish.

Hi every one. my name is Obwala Leo. I work with SOS Childrens' Villages Uganda as a program officer. I am intrested in this course because I belive it will help be gain practical skills in fundrasising that will that I will apply in my organization.

Hello everyone! my name is BENJAMIN from DR Congo and I am one of the founders of ADCi ngo. The pleasure is all mine to be learning with you guys.

Hi! My name is Paolo in Ohio. My expertise is in Education organization policy and administration as well as public sector administration and leadership. I have an MPA, and an always interested in learning new things. In particular I would like to increase my understanding of fundraising, as this will likely be a useful skill as I'm looking to transition into new employment.