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Sources to apply for fund.

Dear forum members,

I hope you are doing well during such a rainy day. :)

I want to share with you few useful links for applying funds. ;)

The first one is Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellowship Programme.

This program aims to identify young ambitious/high-potential/ forward -thinking civil society activists from the EaP region and support the development of their leadership skills, as well as allow them to bring about positive changes in their communities by providing them with resources for targeted activities. As this year the application is already closed you can consider this opportunity for the next year. The link is here: https://eapcivilsociety.eu/fellowships-2

The second one is "SOLVE 2020 GLOBAL CHALLENGES".

Their 2020 Global Challenges offer over $1.5 million in funding. Apply by the June 18 deadline!

The link is here: https://solve.mit.edu/

I hope this information would be helpful for you.

Have a nice Monday!

10 comments

10 Comments

Ashley Misleh | Marketing

May 20, 2020

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Smart. 👌🏼

Elek Fazekas

May 20, 2020

I didn't used it yet. My friend sent it to me who I work with to fund a "smaller" cause.

It looks nice when you don't have your own platform for fundraising purposes. But I think when there are this many projects it's harder to draw attention.

I didn't used it during my work right now because we already started and didn't wanted to split up our online persona, for our purpose it's important to be transparent and two different places to collect money might be confusing to potential funders.

I just like the idea, it's similar to https://www.kickstarter.com/ and a hungarian page https://adjukossze.hu/

Jodee

May 20, 2020

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@Elek Fazekas Have you used 'gofundme.com' to raise funds before? Was it successful? How does this site compare? Which criteria to take note/what to look out for when choosing a platform?

Elek Fazekas

May 20, 2020

Replying to

@Jodee I still owe you some answers!

When it's time look around the web for crowfunding pages there are several options, some of them aren't really for the purpose of funding projects.

First of all you have to ask yourself: What's my project? How much time I have to fund it? How much money I need? How much money I have? What kind of useful connections I have in person and institutional? (you might want to make your own professional ecomap) The most important question is that what is your message? Only after you have these answers you can start searching.

After that you might try to look around to find some NGOs or civil partners, maybe even celebs! Whe you do this part you should think about their image, their brand. Ask yourself: Is my cause suitable with their message? Are they help me for money or as a favor? At the start you can use bigger brands to kickstart your idea in different media and platforms.

If you found an NGO with a suitable message and good enough IT background (own webpage where they can add and remove functions) you can ask them for a subsite in their platform for your cause.

If not you should look further for a special page for crowfunding purposes. There are several options we listed previously. When looking for these kind of sites you have to consider some of the following:

The design: people will give you money throughout this site, and if it looks bad they will partly identify you with it.
Their image and message: Choose a platform similar to yours. People will find you more easily, they choose to look on sites that they are interested in. For example if you want to help stray dogs you don't post it in an IT group, they don't care because that isn't the reason why they wen't there.
Transparency: How will the money reach you? Do people see your profile clearly?
Additional services: What you get for your money? How deeply can you personalize your profile? If something goes wrong how can you reach the service provider?
Trust: You get your money through this site, it's important to know previous experiences from former users. What can you find about them on the internet? Do you know someone personally who used it?
Popularity: The more people know about this site the more people you reach with your campaign.
Costs: How much the platform charges you? How much they charge for additional services? How much the advertisments cost? What's the cost of the design elements that you will use for the campaign?

Right know I work in a project with a family. My job is to lead the procces and make the content. they agreed for me to use the campaign to educational purposes. After it's done I will share it somewhere in the forum. :)

Agree, disagree, question, add something, I encourage you to do all four!