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Hello my name is taylor refugee and member of a local NGO working in the integration of digital technology in the training of young refugees in the camps
my goal for taking this course is to understand the different sources of funding that may be available to me and above all to learn new strategies to approach potential donors for the cause we are pursuing

Hello everyone, my name is Mahad Baig Mirza. I am from Pakistan .I am a Business graduate and I love to do charity and donations work on my own. I have joined this course to gain insight into how to do fundraising and what skills are necessary to develop proficiency in it. By working with you guys as a team we can support each other in our specific goals. Thank you.

Hello everyone, my name is Blessing E. umukoro,l am from Nigeria and l work with an NGO (Living Your Dreams Initiatives). l am taking this course to learn strategies and effective ways to raise funds for my organisation's projects. Am excited to meet people of thesame interest that I can learn from their wealth of knowledge and experiences and work as a team. Thank you for the opportunity Philanthropy university.

Glad to be on board with you zika

Hi Tutde, good to meet you here, l will like to connect with you

welcome Mbotidem

I'm Overs Mutamiri from Zimbabwe. My goal for learning is applying what l have learnt for professional growth as well as acquire a certificate.

I am excited to learn strategies! Our npo is a Rape Crisis Center. We are a small org with about 13 employees and many leaders wear multiple hats. We do not have a designated person in charge of fundraising. So, when we do an event, the planning seems to be a bit unorganized and we are always behind! We need a stragety that works!

Am Joshua Kisawuzi a Ugandan Journalist directing a local Non Government Organization(NGO)-Media Agenda- Uganda. Am looking forward to connect with fellow learners for further engagements as well as acquire skills to fundraise effectively for my organization. I have a lot of hope in that topic of writing proposal. I wish the best to you all my fellow academic combatant.

Hope to hear from you again

Hello my name is Alexa. I work for a Osteopathic University that is quickly growing. My goals of this course is learn more about fundraising strategies so that I am able to lead appeals. I most excited to learn what my potential when it comes to building a strategy.

I am excited to bring ALL GOOD COUNTS to fruition with the help of the content of these courses.

Hello everyone, my name is Yesenia Sánchez Cardona, I am very motivated in this course to learn various strategies that I can apply to my non-profit organization, which I want to structure and put into operation as of the year 2022, I hope that this course will help me I contribute too much knowledge and that the people who are here and know about the area do too.
Greetings!

Hello everyone,
My name is Sarah I work for a company in the U.S. near Boston Ma. as the community outreach director. I am new this position at work, and I would love to acquire as much knowledge and feed back as I can in order to expand my career. Looking forward to learning with everyone! : )

Hello,

My name is Pablo. I have a bachelor degree in Anthropology. I am volunteering for an NGO, I will be helping them in their fundraising campaign.
My goals for this course is to learn more about how do design effective fundraising strategies to achieve funding goals. I am most excited to learn strategies that I can practically apply on the field in this next month and the future.

Hi fellow learners,

I am Moses Okello from Nairobi, Kenya. I am a holder of BSc. in Agricultural Economics and Resource Management.

I work for Centre for Rights, Education and Awareness as Women Economic Empowerment Lead.

My desire will be to get the most from writing grant proposal to help my organization especially my department to grow and be able to meet various needs of the poor.

Hello team.
I am Gerald Daud in Tanzania.
My area of expertise is Educational Psychology.

My goal to this course is to become a master of fundraising and writing winning grant proposals.

Hello
I am Samson Mensah. I am from Ghana and I am looking forward to learn fund raising strategies

Hello ,
My name is Ayman
Currently, I am working as proposal writing and ME Manager , My goal toward this course is to boost my background in funderaising and acquire skills to connect with potential donors

Hi every one,Am Herman Magungu from Tanzania,I desire to know the fund raising strategies and become a successful fund raiser in my organization.

my name is Penda Abdou MATAR, i am from Senegal in Western Africa, i am working as a program assosciate in UNODC;
my goals for this course is to have knowlegde about fund raising and to be able to write a project document to submit to donors

Am Adan Abdi Adan Senior Project coordinator one of the top management of the SCRP project lead and Strategic management in terms of ensuring the quality of the sectors and project support team in Somalia?

Hi every one,Am Herman Magungu from Tanzania,I desire to know the fund raising strategies and become a successful fund raiser in my organization.

Hello everyone, so far i am getting good information from this site.

Hi every one,Am Herman Magungu from Tanzania,I desire to know the fund raising strategies and become a successful fund raiser in my organization.

Je prendrais tout mon temps nécessaire pour bien suivre ce cours

Greetings Fellows,

I'm Lungisa Sobhuwa a community activist from South Africa. My line of advocacy in development underprivileged children through literacy programs.

Donors are the most important stakeholders in the fundraising world. Their generosity allows charities to proceed with their work. Hi, my name is Lungisa Sobhuwa, I am reading club coordinator from South Africa.

Hello everyone!
I am Tata Mayaah Eveline- Executive Director of Humanity at Heart international - a cancer prevention and advocacy organization with focus on Cervical cancer in Cameroon!
My goal is learn other fundraising strategies to sustain the organization's activities!
Nice to be in this community! And meeting you Ndip Solange

Great meeting you! Hope to share in your learnings

My name is Mark from Ghana. I recently started an NGO that focuses on educational training in apprenticeship for Ghanaians and provide tuition support to tertiary students. Am here to learn more about fundraising and how i can practically raise funds to help deprived Ghanaians.

Hello! I have already passed introduction and conecting donnors, so this course should be interesting too) I would like to use the given courses for my own work and in order if I will work with charity.

Hello! I have already passed introduction and conecting donnors, so this course should be interesting too) I would like to use the given courses for my own work and in order if I will work with charity.

My name Adamson Mkandawire, am from Zambia. Am excited to be part of this course.

Hi, I'm Chibuike Augustine Atasie, from Nigeria. I work as a Program Officer and Research consultant at Development Measures.
I'm excited to begin this course on Fundraising strategies because I believe it is the most important skill any organization and even individual can have. I look forward to getting myself acquainted with the course and becoming an asset to my organisation. Thanks.

Nice connecting with you

Hi guys I am Simon Sebit from South Sudan.
I seek to learn the skill in fund raising to help in engaging in advocating for vulnerable communities.

Sikujah is my name and live in Zambia. am in the field of agriculture and working in out grower scheme. I am eager to learn how to proposal writing for funding and my goal is raise $2million annually for the next two year for the community project.

Greetings Chibuke, as a program officer, i believe you have experience in raising funds for your organization. I agree with you when you state that the that course offers the most important skills organization and individuals require. I look forward learning more from you

Lungisha, you shall never walk alone on this journey. am also here to learn the proposal writing and getting the funding for the organization.
i have come to appreciate that fundraising is critical for the growth and sustainability of organizations.

I am Maryam Akinbode from Nigeria. Retired educational evaluator. My goal is to familiarize myself with new fundraising strategies and how to practicalize them for the development of my organization. I apply them by inculcating the idea to other members of my organization and collectively use it to mobilize and fundraise for betterment of the organization.I am excited about writing a grant proposal, crowdfunding and use of social medial to fundraise.

My name is Candace and I work in the nonprofit/education/mental health fields. I am excited to learn the aspects of strategies behind fundraising as I have not had the opportunity to do so professionally.

This is Sabrina from Bangladesh. I am a development practitioner with experience of working in the local non-profit organizations as well as some experience of working in the UN system. I am interested to learn more about proposal writing and using social media for crowd funding purposes. from this module.

Hello, my name is Musiime Elias, i am looking forward to learning alot from this course regarding fundraising strategies

Hi everyone.

My name is Mariluz, Im from Colombia¨. I need to learn about foundraising strategies, cause im gonna start a new job in a foundation.

Best,

Hi. My name is Valerie. I've worked in the nonprofit space for several years.
My goals for the course is to complete the Fundraising Specialization series and to learn more about proposal writing and to gain knowledge of crowdfunding.
I am most excited to learn how to write and/or plan better proposals

My name is Nehemiah Kipserem from Rift Valley - Republic of Kenya and am currently in the field of Business Develop in a NGO.
My goal is to finish this incredible course and get certified for understanding Fundraising from basic knowledge of its strategies and how it can be used at a practical level.
I am excited to learn about the strategies in place so that it can spike ideas and innovations of other strategies in my mind.

Thank you in advance Philanthropy University and the entire team who will make this successful.

Everything is fine! The course is positive

Am Samuel Kiggundu from Uganda Rakai district, working with Bagonvu Elderly Women's Foundation , am interested in granting writing and on how i can polish up my fundraising skills

hallo, i am interested to learn about fundraising, i have experience fundraising in the community and i work with local non-government organizations, I hope I can to improve my skill and knowledge especially to learn new and better fundraising strategies to help my organization.

My name is Winifred and I am from Nigeria. I belong to a Charity organization and my field of work is community development and training to be an archivist. My goal for this course is to learn the strategies of fundraising, hoping this will help me and my organization to access funds to carry out our projects. I am most excited to learn how to write proposals in a convincing way.

Hello Maryam. Good to see another Nigerian on the course. Hope you find the course helpful.

Hello fellow Philanthropy,glad meeting you all, Paul Attah from Nigeria,I actually strive to acquire knowledge, as much as get my self equipped towards establishing an NGO in my country, Which will gear towards youth restiveness,by providing skills to alleviate poverty striken families making a living while still learning.
My regards to you all.

My Name is Terry Mwea, Executive Assistant, from Kenya. My goal is to gain practical knowledge, skills and strategies for fundraising so as to help my organization.

Hi, my name is Christophe ONAMBELE, a former programme Manager with Stabilization Support Unit a MONUSCO's section. This course will help me to reinforce my capacity when interacting with donors.

My name is Paul Nyangabyaki, Uganda, Sports for Health. I am the CEO of a social enterprise called Cradle Sports. I hope to learn the skills of fundraising effectively so I can finance some of our major objectives. I look forward to interacting with you all.

Hello everyone, my name is Oladewolu M. Tayo, I am from Ondo State in Nigeria. I am running an NGO. I am here to acquired more knowledge in fundraising programs.

Hello,

Jenna here working from Egypt. My goal is to improve my fundraising skills and hopefully apply them in a job position as well as for charitable organizations that I volunteer with.

Hello! My name is Vandana and I am from India. I am a teacher by profession, and I volunteer for many NGOs. I want to learn more about the strategies involved in fundraising.

My name is Otonye Inwang, I'm a HR administrator at Deloitte and I provide Virtual Assistance services via my business- P3 Solutions. I currently live in the UK.

I meet a lot of people who need help with fundraising via my business... this is why I enrolled for this course; to get the vital information I need to help these people raise funds for their NGOs, courses and projects.

John, fundraiser with WWF-Kenya completed the first two parts of this specialization now closing out the 3rd part. I have learnt alot and look forward to implementing what I've learnt and getting to know some of you :)

Hello, my name is Peter Kimathi from Kenya. I want to gain experience and knowledge about storytelling, especially for the underprivileged members of the community. I have been involved in many community activities in the community to see everyone live a meaningful life, especially the bright kids who come from financially stricken backgrounds.

hello my name is Elizabeth from Nigeria, i work with an NGO in my locality and my goal is to get more knowledge in fundraising streategies

Hello, my Name is Blessing Ori Ogbu from Nigeria and I am excited to be here. my goal is to learn how to write a proper grant proposal and run a successful fundraising event

Hello, I'm Chinaza Anih from Nigeria, I'm a project manager at Feed for life foundation, a non governmental organisation whose anchor is aimed at providing quality education for all.
My goal for this course is to become an effective fundraising strategist in other to help my organisation manage her resources well and sustain its goals.
I'm most excited to learn the strategies in fundraising.

My name is Jimmy , working for a Japanese NPO and been added the role of fundraising therefore would like to learn more about sustainable resource mobilisation strategy!!

Hello Everyone,

My name is Kelly and I am a fundraiser for a non-profit. I am very passionate about empowering women in technology.

Hello Everyone,

My name is Kelly and I am a fundraiser for a non-profit. I am very passionate about empowering women in technology.

Hey, I am chinyere Emmanuel, from Nigeria, I am social worker in my area, I am here to learn in the philanthropy University and get to meet like minds, intend to develop my capacity in the area of fund raising and getting the useful materials that will help me grow and run my organization effectively and efficiently.

Chinyere Emmanuel
Best regards,
Nigeria.

Hello, my name is Jocelyn. I am in the United States, my project, Association Saint-Camille is in West Africa, treating mental illness in Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast and Chad. My goal is to learn about grant writing and overall effective strategies for fundraising.

Hello, my project is nearby to Nigeria, in Benin and French speaking countries in the West. We plan to expand into Nigeria, treating mental illness. I share your same goals as I am new to fundraising.

Hello, I am Joseph from Kenya. I am here to learn the various fundraising strategies to become an expert in this field.

Matthew Adewale is my name, I live and work in the UAE, Dubai to be precise, I look forward to meeting like minded people to share ideas with and possibly learn from, so I can better the cause of my organization.

Hi everyone, my name is Felix Sang from Kenya. I am a program manager of an NGO that supports orphans and vulnerable children to access basic services. I am hoping to gain more knowledge and skills to enable my team to identify relevant partners to raise funds for the operation of our NGO.

Hi everyone!
My name Eric Sackie and I am very excited to be part of course. I am from Liberia, West Africa. I look forward to learning new skills and knowledge in this skills that will help me and my organization mobilize funding for your projects.

Regards,

Eric

Hi am Daniel from Uganda am very excited to be here my gold for this coerce is to acquire more knowledge on resource mobilization as it can help me to impact more on the community as to improve the standard of living

Hello everyone, I'm Sanger from Iraq, I'm head of program for a local NGO, I'm enrolling in this course to develop fundraising capability of my organization.

Hello everyone! I am Maria Tereza from Brazil, but I currently live in the US. I work for non-profits focused on education before and I intend to return to that when my exchange program is over.
My main goal is to learn more about fundraising strategies for education focused non-profits. I am most excited about learning how to write a grant proposals

Hello Valerie! That's my goal too! maybe we could talk about it sometime?

Hey Pablo, what made you decide for volunteer at this NGO? Is it related to your degree somehow?

Hello everybody. I am Hans Hassenteufel, based in Bolivia, I have been working for the last 24 years in microfinance and at this time I'm transitioning into a new job for which I do need to strengthen my fundraising abilities.
My goals in the course are precisely to learn more on the subject given that I have only had some practice on fundraising. I am most excited to learn about proposal writing since I think that I would need to be involved with that in the job that I am envisioning now.
See you around.

Hi Maria Tereza,
I see we both want to learn about proposal writing, I hope we have the chance to work together in the course.
Bye.

Hello Jocelyn,
I see we might be on the same time zone (I am at EST now) and also that you are interested in grant writing. I do want to learn about proposal writing so there may be collaboration possibilities among us.
See you around.

Hello, I am Norah Owaraga from Uganda working with a nonprofit civil society organisation. My goal is to up-date my fundraising knowledge and skills - learn new ones and unlearn outdated ones. This is so that I am better placed to raise unrestricted funding that allows our organisation to innovate and to appropriately intervene in our fight against poverty and deprivation. How to effectively connect with and to nurture potential donors in Uganda's Diaspora is what I am most excited to learn about.

Hi Hillary, I am from Uganda too. Sharing my time between Entebbe and Northern Uganda. Perhaps we could be on the same team and even interact face to face and help each other's organisations.

Hello Erika, please to e-meet you. As we learn how to fundraise for our organisations, I am interested to learn more about your work in domestic violence. Is it as it is happening in Canada or other parts of the world. I am currently a victim of gender based violence on matters to do with inheritance and because of that I am learning a lot how the application of our country's legal system is skewed against women...

Hey
Am atong Mary from koneta
Am glad that am enrolled in this course,, I would like to learn more about how to write project proposals.

Hello! I'm Daniel from Sierra Leone West Africa, studying at Philanthropy University is my dream come true. Pursuing course on fundraising is the best interests in life positively.

Hello! could we please connect on WhatsApp?

My name is christabel,am from Zambia, Africa.
I am the Director at SITOD (Z)LTD
I sought this course to specialize in fundraising in my foundation for the less privileged, young girls and elderly women to improve the standard of living through farming and supporting there families.

I conquer you am so excited to learn from philanthropy University,l want to have knowledge on how l can archive the fundraising in my foundation

I'm Nafisat AbdulAzeez a social development worker from Nigeria, my Goal is to master fundraising strategies. I look forward to implementing all that I have learned from this class.

Hello everyone,
My name is Haya William, the Executive Director of KEDDO, an upcoming organization committed to developmental disability advocacy, related direct services, and research in Western Kenya. In this respect, I my greatest desire is to ensure effective fundraising for the organization to enable it advance the course for inclusion as envisaged in the CRDP. I hope to make friends and meet partners who are committed to our course and if possible secure funding through the Global Giving Platform. Mine is to share my experience and learn from our guests and other learners in this course.

Hi everyone,
I'm James and I'm based in Singapore. I've been volunteering as a CliftonStrengths coach for a ground-up initiative that mentors young adults (final year university students, or those who have just entered the workforce). There are plans to create a more structured organisation which will be able to keep things going in the years ahead. I've been roped in to support the fund raising efforts and hence I'm here to learn as much as I can since I'm not experienced in fund raising.

it§s so exciting to know in depth about fundraising strategies!

Ravi d'être là pour apprendre

Hi Everyone. I am Mary. Nice to be here. Just getting a refresher. Miami area.

Hi everyone, I am Dermau, I 'm here to realize my dream.

My name is Omondi Haya William, the Executive Director of KEDDO. Our organization Mission Statement is KEDDO is; Pursue to Realize Developmentally Disabled Children’s Titled Inclusion through advocacy, direct services, and research.

Hi Everyone, My name is Estella OKEZIE, I am from Nigeria. I stated my career as a trained Licensed Nurse & Midwife,I furthered into social work Health and Social welfare -Health,I have passion for making social impact on mandkind rescue this drove me into social work . I presently work with a Health NGO as the Head of Advocacy and Quality Assurance . My main goal for this course is to unlearn and learn and to be able to have and make a positive impact on self and the society .
It will be my great pleasure to join like minds to rescue as many as possible,leaving a positive foot print on the sand of time.
I also intend to have fun while learning and networking with new and great minds.
My area of expertise are Healthcare,Social work -social welfare ,very interested in Physical and Mental wellbeing / Intervention .

I am working on Sxual Abuse and Violence intervention,Remedy and rehabilitation.

Good to have you here