Accredited courses in fundraising and communication
The Resource Alliance, in partnership with the Thai Fund Foundation and Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, launched a 15-day certificate course designed to enhance the skills of local fundraisers and bring them together on a common platform to share and network. We run similar course in Delhi, Mumbai, Malaysia, Moscow, in partnership with local business schools, among other countries.
The Gill Astarita Memorial Fund has helped us provide bursaries for many of our accredited courses and workshops run in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Find out more at www.resource-alliance.org/courses
Consulting and mentoring services
The Resource Alliance delivered a successful fundraising capacity development Workshop to the staff team at Aflatoun, an international child education charity, which took place in early February 2012 in Holland.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has commissioned the Resource Alliance to deliver a series of fund development training and mentoring programmes with its regional Member Organisations, starting with Africa and also including Asia Pacific. WAGGGS has also been supportive of the IWRMs in Africa and Asia, sending delegates from their Member Organisations and planning their regional Workshops around these.
Our list of clients include the WHO (World Health Organisation), DfID Programme in India, Plan (Africa), Habitat for Humanity (Brazil) and many others.
The Resource Alliance Global Awards for fundraising
Following the success of the inaugural Global Awards at the IFC in 2010, the 2011 awards saw the number of countries submitting entries, double. The range of winners was truly global, with Uganda, Germany, Ireland and Australia all picking up awards.
We are looking forward to an even greater number of countries participating in 2012. In order to facilitate this we have developed a ‘How-To-Guide’ to support national fundraising associations wishing to set up a national fundraising awards programme, which is available to download from our website.
To find out more please go to www.resource-alliance.org/globalawards
India NGO Awards
The India NGO Awards, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, is a unique national competition which celebrates and rewards the best non-governmental and non-profit organisations by showcasing examples of best practice and successful resource mobilisation.
Now in its sixth year, the India NGO Awards evaluate organisations on their effective and sustainable mobilisation of resources, the demonstration of efficient management of resources, good governance practices, transparency and accountability, and the impact of their work in bringing about tangible benefits to its target communities. National winners are awarded a trophy and a cash prize to strengthen their internal systems and processes.
Thailand NGO Awards
The Thailand NGO Awards were launched for the first time in 2011, as part of a three-year partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. The Thailand NGO Awards were successfully delivered by our local partner, the Kenan Institute Asia (KIA), a Thailand-based non-profit development organisation.
In order to be eligible, NGOs must be local or international organisation registered in Thailand as an association or foundation, at one of the following institutions: The Ministry of Finance, The Ministry of Interior, and The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.
Uganda NGO Awards
In 2011 the first NGO Awards programme in Uganda was launched, with a focus on fundraising achievements. Winners were announced at a Gala night at the IWRM Africa 2011 on 29 November in Kampala, Uganda.
The Uganda NGO Awards focus on:
- Rewarding organisations that can demonstrate strategic fundraising practices and can campaign
- Identifying and strengthening successful fundraising practices
- Sharing stories, case studies and other innovations.
In subsequent years the Uganda NGO Awards programme will look at issues such as governance, impact, financial management in addition to fundraising.
For further information on all our awards programmes please visit
www.resource-alliance.org/awards
The Bellagio Initiative
We are very proud to have collaborated with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute of Development Studies on The Bellagio Initiative which focused on: The Future of International Development and Philanthropy in Pursuit of Human Wellbeing.
The process included a series of consultation meetings with practitioners from around the world, a
global philanthropy mapping document and several white papers from a range of authors on relevant issues. The final Bellagio Summit was held in November at the Rockefeller’s Bellagio Centre in Italy.
Click here to read the aide memoire and materials from the Initiative.
The Resource Alliance is exploring opportunities to expand its work towards ‘inspiring philanthropy’ in emerging markets and aims to play a catalytic role in bringing together the philanthropists and development actors. We are in the process of organising a high profile event with philanthropists from Asia and Africa along with development actors from the region.
I sincerely hope that you have found the above information useful. For more information on any of our activities please visit our new website, launched in December 2011, and feel free register for our free, quarterly eNewsletter at www.resource-alliance.org
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any member of my team!
We are here to serve you.
All the best
Neelam Makhijani
Chief Executive
The Resource Alliance
