My Communities

hi everyone, I'm nori from philippines but working in dubai currently working as back office support for a telecom company, I would like to improve on my fundraising abilities to help more of my relatives or friends donate to UN cause.
I am excited to learn how to connect more to people and deliver your thoughts across clearly in different situation.

wow thats impressive, more power to you Yao!

you got me with the "big picture" , wish you the best jola!

Hello everyone.. my name is Saurabh & i am a Pediatric Dentist and i am looking forward in learning more. Thankyou.

Hi my name is Sibocha B...from kenia. My greatest goal is earn knowledge and to help others outside world and also to make friends.thank you

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Hi everyone. My name is Henry Onah. A co-founder of an agribusiness consultancy firm and I'm volunteer facilitator on project management practices with a local chapter of iNGO in Nigeria.

Hello everyone, my name is Mahad Baig Mirza. I am from the city of Lahore in the country Pakistan. I am a Business graduate who is greatly interested in doing charitable work and develop my fundraising organization to help people become properly educated. Through this course, I will become more aware of the strategies and methods by which we can become efficiently connected to donor and how to develop networking with them. I really hope I can join you guys and develop good networking with to boost our learning skills and help each other achieve their noble vision for helping the societies in the world.

Hello, my name is Estela from Nicaragua working with a ONG. I am here to learn more and develop my skills in local fundraising and donor connection.

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1. My name is Ziphathele (Zee) Ncube, I am from Zimbabwe. I am employed as a Tax Collector. I am a volunteer involved in Rural Community Development. I work (voluntary & part time) with Zibalongwe Community Secondary Project (as the Project Coordinator) and Collin Nyabadza Children's Voice Charitable Organization (Programs Officer). My passion in community development and youth empowerment has seen the birth of our new organization Focus on Emakhaya Educational Support Network.
2. I am keen to connect with more donors so that my volunteer efforts in the above developmental organizations will grow our financial resource base and help us achieve our objectives.
3. Connecting with donors across the globe is one of my major interests in this course

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 Brazil. I'm super excited to learn more about fundraising, especially fundraising with individuals. Thanks for the opportunity. Let's go there.

My name is Taryn Cordani. I am an Associate Development Officer of Leadership Giving at Partners In Health, a global health and social justice organization. I am excited to learn about creative ways to connect with donors and deepen their relationship with PIH!

I am Célestin and I live in Cameroon of which I am a citizen. I am very involved in the G90 which is the Association of alumni of my high school where I stayed from 1992 to 1999. Our ambition is to carry out at least one community interest project each year. I think this course will be very important for my future, firstly because I am a marketing specialist and also because I will increase my investment in associations.

Hello everyone, I am Yesenia Sánchez. I have worked as a director of non-social projects, but my goal is to open my own foundation to transfer knowledge to vulnerable communities in my country. I entered this specialization because I am very interested in learning everything about social projects, resources, formulation, scope, possible donors, etc.

Hi everyone,
I am Eng. Epaphras ndikumana, taking this course from Burundi country in Eastern Africa. I really enjoyed learning the fundraising strategies course which provided much understanding. now I would like countinue the course on how to conect with donors. I ,wish I will have good interaction with colleagues here.
The Best.

Nice to hear from you. My passion is in human rights, voulnterism and media. Am looking at creating a project around Access to information and freedom of expression as a route to create a better world.

Am Joshua Kisawuzi from Uganda am excited to be part of this course hope to implementing the knowledge and skills in Uganda.

l'm Overs Mutamiri.lam excited to take this course and learn how to connect with donors.

l'm Overs Mutamiri from Zimbabwe.lam excited to take this course as l need to learn how to connect with donors.

I am hoping to build my skills to become a more effective fundraiser.

Hi there,

I am also from Africa and I am from South Africa to be specific. I work at a Human Rights NPO and I am very new to fundraising and I am looking to learn as much as possible, because I would like to be brilliant at my role.

Hi there,

I am Ashley and I am not yet lawyer; I am currently completing my Law degree in South Africa to specialize in Human Rights Law while I am currently working at a Human Rights NPO in South Africa.

Hi everyone! My name is Mallory. I work at the Ronald McDonald House Charities. I've worked for the charity for about 3 years and just recently started really getting interested in the development and fundraising aspect of it. I'm excited to learn more about it.

My name is mohamed Jama , i am from Somalia . i am a executive director of hiilo relief and development organization , it is fresh newly relief and charity based organization , which its Aim is to reduce global unemployment and Hungary .
my goal for this course is to improve my skill and knowledge towards getting funding and recourse to solve problems that exist in my community including famine , climate change and covid19 effects .
its pleasure for me and i thank philanthropy university their continues capacity building support that they help us .

Hello everyone! I am happy to be here and very excited to learn more to apply to my career! I am from Canada

Hello! My name is Anisa and I am new to the topic of fundraising.

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My name is Pablo Weeden Villaraviz. I am from Spain. I have a degree in Social And Cultural Anthropology and I am volunteering in an NGO in Accra, Ghana. Fafalifoundation.org. My objective in this course is to learn how to connect to donors, attract their attention and interest and how to communicate with them in a constructive manner. I am most excited about how to bring the teachings of this course into practice to help my organization.

Hello my name is Mauricio and I'm from Mexico. I'm currently working in a fundraising with a University. I'm looking forward learning from this course.

I am Lowalem Daniel, Working for a faith based organization as a program manager in a rural, donor dependent community of Eastern Uganda in Africa.

I am more interested to learn more on donor retention and coordination skills. Many times, we are blessed to have donors and little effort is done to keep them human enough for cordial communication and coordination. instead we concentrate on their report deadlines, project compliance issues which i believe it probably goes beyond the mechanical relationships

Hello , my name is Tsitsi Chitsike, I am from Zimbabwe. I am an entreprenuer as well as CEO in a non profit making charity organisation aimed at giving underprivileged women and girls a dignified period experience every month.

Hi every one,My name is Henry Magungu from Tanzania,I work as a capacity building officer

Good day to everyone. My name is Roeun, and I am from Cambodia. I work as a donor relations coordinator for an NGO named ICF in Cambodia. By enrolling in this course, I will have better ideas for growing my organization.

I'm Peter Jack I want to know how to connect with donors

Hello, my name is Lucinda and I’m taking this fundraising course so that I can add structure and tools to my organization’s fundraising efforts

My name is Inviolata Njoroge from Kenya and I work in a local NGO as a researcher. I would like to learn how I can identify and engage donors more meaningfully so that I can manage to raise funds for the poor living in urban settlements. I will use skills learnt to raise funds for the poor particularly children who head households.
I am most excited to learn how I can get resources to help those who need help.

Hello community. Shana Robertson, brand new to Community Relations. Working at Northwest Indiana USA's rape crisis center, Fair Haven RCC.
Fundraising is a big deal for non-profit organizations. I want to be the best I can be, the agency and our clients are counting on me.
I'm most excited to learn best practices for the 'ask'. Especially since I work at a rape crisis center, some people tend to be awkward when I start talking.

Hi Roeun. The ICF website is wonderful! Very inspiring work. I hope you get some really tangible tips that will translate well for your community.

Hello Tsitsi, are you working with any programs that help supply these products? Like Days for Girls?

Hi Jama, is your organisation the same as HIRDA?

I am Tim and I am looking to learn more about non profits, philanthropic careers, and how to best utilize my education to lead donor relations and fundraising efforts.

Hello, my name is Diana Forero, I work at FUCS, a higher education institution, and I want to know ways to raise funds to help economically vulnerable students.

Am Teddy Ajik from Uganda I work with an NGO called His Image Ministries and a Human Rights Activist by profession.
My goal with this course is to see that am able to connect with different donors at all levels reason being the Organisation that i work with the services that are rendered benefits the community implying there is need of finding other sources that can stand with us in different projects that are conducted.
Am most excited to learn how to deal with people from various backgrounds and how to know on how to react when things don't turn out the way you expected them to be.
Am so happy to be part of Philanthropy University Community and nice meeting you all and hope to have some good time here.
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My name is EJIMNKEONYE, Emmanuel from Nigeria. I studied psychology, and I am into human development.

Nchimunya Simatende
Research Assistant, on a project fostering language development in Early Childhood Education pupils.
Livingstone Zambia

Hello everyone my name is Kelechi Okoh.
I am a resource mobilization officer. am here to learn more about fundraising so to be more effective and efficient in my organizational. Am from Nigeria. A honest and a career builder.

I am Nkwa Henry From Cameroon (Central Africa)
Founder of nkwa4change Solutions, a grass root organization dedicated to the holistic empowerment of minority young people and peasant women

I am taking this course to improve my fund raising successes. I t will help me look back to my struggles in fund raising, see my gaps, failures and them improve with the new insides from this course.

I plan to launch a crow funding campaign and write grants to experiment my knowledge

Looking forward to learning with you all

Hello my Colleagues Is me Mohammed Al Moallim, from Yemen. working with MFD (NGO) As Program Coordinator. its agreat to introduce myself and benift from your experiance and fundrianing course

Hello Everyone,

I'm Samuel Adeyemi from Nigeria, I'm a digital marketer and self-employed.

My purpose for taking this course is to help mankind achieve whatsoever business they need to start, I realize getting capital is one of the problem, I decided to hold training on how to raise funds for their business which is starting tomorrow. And whatsoever I learnt here I'm going to teach them.

I will be happy to know how to effectively write a proposal and how to communicate with donors.

Thank you

Hello everyone. My name is Maxim. I work as Business Development Specialist for CRS. It's great e-meeting you here. I'm excited for this course as it will help me learn the basics of donor engagement. I look forward to expanding my knowledge and reinforcing my skills in that area. Thank you

hello every one , this is haydar saadi ,glad to join this course

My name is Maryam Akinbode. i retired as an educational evaluator. I am the founder of MUSFADA organization . I am from Nigeria.I have done course on introduction to fund raising now wish to upgrade to connecting with the donors. I am excited to know my donors, what to ask, and how to incorporate donor families.. My goal is to effectively apply whatever I have learnt to improve my organization.

Please let us know more about you

Hi Samuel

Hi Henry, you are in the right place to learn about fundraising

Hello! I am a development practitioner with UN work experience from Bangladesh. I am aiming to learn more about fundraising and how to deal with high level donors from this course. Happy learning!

Hello, My name is Musiime Elias, the Founder of an NGO called Ubora Foundation Africa in Uganda. I am looking forward to gaining knowledge and skills in fundraising in order to continue to grow as an organisation and create more impact in our country.

Hello, John here I work in the fundraising department of my organization. I'm pretty new to fundraising and I'm looking forward to acquiring skills that will enable me to not only be beneficial to me personally but to my organization, its beneficiaries and its donors.

Hello all! My name is Valerie. I'm taking this course as part of the fundraising specialization. From this course, I hope to expand my knowledge base and perspective.

I'm always happy to connect!

Everything is fine! The course is positive

hello people my name is Lemmy Bonnet from Nigeria. I work with an NGO and in charge of empowering women and scholarships to the less privilege. it has been a blessing in a million ways and I am here to learn how I can get more funds to work and expand my reach. I am truly happy to be here, absolutely loving this opportunity to meet with like minds across the globe.

Hi everyone, I am Arewa Salome an enterpreneur and Agrronist, although my institution is a social enterprise that works for profit though. I am here to understand the secret of fund raising

My Name is Rodrigo I am from El Salvador, I want to work in a NGO as a fundraiser, I am living in Switzerland, I hope to put in practice what I learn in this course.

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My name is Carole Mbalati-Leboho, from Polokwane in South Africa.
I completed the course in 2019 and I have decided to re-do the course just to brush up on my fundraising skills.
I am excited to learn new fundraising techniques, especially in light of how the global pandemic has affected the current economy.
I am also looking forward to making new, relevant connections within the NGO sphere.

Hello, My name is Michel Yao form Canada working with a United Nations Agency in public health.
After the first course on introduction to fund raising I am taking this second to learn more about dealing with donors in the fundraising process. My goal being to help for fundraising activities for health services to support vulnerable communities.
I am excited to learn more about how to convince donors and mainly how to keep them.

Hi! My name is Irina and I work with charity projects in Dari edu foundation. I would like to learn more about communication with donors.

Hi there, my name is Bev from the U.S. I work the mental health/proactive suicide industry. I'm hoping to just gain more knowledge about fundraising and talking to donors because I haven't really had that experience yet in life.

Hi everyone, my name is Rashida Mamman Mustapha, from Nigeria I’m excited to be here, I’m a social entrepreneur. I have BSC Accounting,I’m willing to learn and share ideas.

Hello Everyone,
I am chirstophe ONAMBELE from Cameroon, this course will help me to enhance my capacities as programme Manager. it is a great pleasure for me to share my passion with all of you. All the best

Hello everyone,
I am a university professor of leadership and have an interest in learning more about fundraising and being able to effectively engage donors. I look forward to the course!

Same here! Although your area of expertise is one that currently under the COVID pandemic has been impacted quite a bit. I look forward to the professional discussions in the course.

Hello Everyone!

I'm Jenna from the U.S. and would like to learn more about fundraising--a valuable skill in the non-profit world, which I hope to rejoin.

Hello, I am Jocelyn Bonner in the USA, I am a volunteer advocate and fundraiser for Association Saint-Camille in Benin, West Africa. This is a comprehensive mental health provider in Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, Chad and soon, Nigeria. I am interested in increasing my fund-raising skills and meeting people in the US who support mental health programs in French, West Africa.

Hello everyone, I am Jocelyn in the United States and an advocate for the mentally ill in West Africa. I am a beginner in fundraising and am participating due to being a project leader on GlobalGiving. I would like to learn about connecting with donors and am exciting to hear from others supporting NGOs in mental health in West Africa, particularly French West Africa. I'm most excited to learn how to get others excited to help the mentally ill.

Pleased to meet someone in mental health. Jocelyn, US advocate for Association Saint-Camille in Benin, also serving Togo, Ivory Coast and Chad, with the intention to grow into other nearby countries.

Hello! My name is Vandana, and I am from India. I am a teacher by profession and volunteer for many NGOs. I want to learn the strategies of fundraising to be able to contribute to my volunteering responsibilities in a better way.

Hello, my name is Allissa I work in the United States of America in the social services field. My goal for this course is to understand the basics of donor relationships and use this as I cultivate our existing mid-level donors. I am most excited to learn the best ways to connect with people.

Wow...am so happy that you are here Crystal..I have listened to your story..and it's really amazing the work you are doing at IREDE Foundation. Welldone

Hello my name is Olaide from Nigeria. I am the Founder of Deploying Skills for Living Foundation which empowers women and girls through skill acquisition and caters to the Educational needs of the vulnerable children. I am glad to be here...to learn about connecting to donors and understanding how to identify the right ones.

Hello, my name is Genevieve Ankomah from Ghana. I am a mental health nurse with a desire to raise funds to purchase medications and other stuff for patients with various mental ailments. I hope to have a foundation caring for the needs of such people in the near future, thanks.

Hi am John from Zambia I work for IKOE Foundation a youth run organization that implements localized solutions in an effort for communities and individuals to live and develop society sustainably. I would like to learn more about fundraising and engaging with individuals and corporate donors can help the organization get funding. I am excited to learn how to present and pitch opportunities to potential donors and secure funding to implement solutions that will live no behind in communities we serve.

Hello everyone, my name is Jefferson, a social Intrapreneur, in a non profit organization Kuramo Development Trust (KDT) based at Lagos in Nigeria(West Africa), I am here to develop my fundraising skills for more effectiveness in my organization, together with our collaborators to achieve our mission.

Hi, I am Lusayo

Hello everyone, my name is Douglas and I work for an NGO that works towards securing a valuable life for children from vulnerable children. The organisation is in Uganda - East Africa. Our organisation entirely depends on donor funds to undertake the various activities. I am in this course to gain knowledge to be able to effectively fundraise for my organisation. Thank you

Hello! My name is Venance from Tanzania. I'm excited to learn about fundraising skills in order to understand how to network with donors for my future ngo project. Thank you philanthropist university !

Hi everyone. I am Ikenna Nzeakor, a project development personnel of African Development Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.
Through this course, I hope to learn how to identify and connect with donors so that my organization can help more young people attain quality education.

1.My name is Yusuff Taiwo Michael
I am from Nigeria
A student of Obafemi Awolowo University.
2.I intend to learn the modules in this course and utilize it for my community.
3.I am excited to be tutored

How are you friends I am happy to be associated with you like minded precious people I am from Zimbabwe.

How are you friends I am happy to be associated with you like minded precious people I am from Zimbabwe.

Hello everyone! My name is Mima, and i work for Life Project 4 Youth (LP4Y) in Indonesia. Actually fundraising is a new world for me, but i am so excited to learn about it. Nice to meet you! :)

Hello everyone! I am Sabine from Lebanon I work for Al Amal Institute for the Disabled (Al Amal In english means Hope). The residents have mental disorders. I hope by the end of this course we will be able to reach more donors.

Hello Fundraising Enthusiasts, my name is Ilukol Solomon Lean from Uganda. I am the founder at a new local organization in my community in Karamoja called; Ilukori Thoughts Foundation (ITF). My objective of enrolling for this short course is to dive deeper into understanding the donor mind and thereafter aligning our internal fundraising strategies for funding and sustainable growth as a young organization. I am most excited to learn about how to connect with donors sustainably without being pushy. Thank you.

Hi all, This is Bahar. An anthropologist with 12 years of academic and professional expertise in the Social Development (NGO) sector. Working with IRC Bangladesh as Senior Grants Manager. And I wish to learn on details fundraising to become a fundraising specialist.

Hi my name is Audrey.

Hello everyone, I'm Charity Babatunde from Nigeria and I run a social enterprise called RAVE et Al with focus on reinforcing values and life skills that are essential for children and young adults to thrive offline and online. I also champion the Kindness Initiative and our mission is to help defray the medical bills of indigent patients in hospitals across Nigeria. I am looking forward to interacting with other change makers and learning.

My name is Jimmy working with an NPO targeting Africa, Europe and South East Asia!

I am here to learn, learn and apply the concepts to develop professional tools to aid our important work.

My name is Shubham and I formed an NGO, ,by which we used to help the poor children to get study

Hello everyone, I am Damilola Akande and I am here to get all information that will benefit my organisation.

Hello. My name is Tombo, from Kenya. I'm really looking forward to learn and gain better understanding of how to engage with donors and build lasting relationships. I will use what have learn to come up with solid fundraising plan. I am Development Finance specialist working in community health sector.

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My name is SANGER, from Iraq, I am Program Manager for a local NGO, I hope to gain enough knowledge in this course to succeed in fundraising for my organization.

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My name is Mariam, and I work for a para-church organization. Hoping to learn about fundraising to help my organization