Deadline: 21-Mar-22
Do you have a great idea or a project that lacks funding? Tell them about it! Apply to the first Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy and learn how to create and run your own crowdfunding campaign and bring your idea to life.
IsDB-ISFD NGOs Empowerment for Poverty Reduction Program: Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy has launched an open call for project proposal in Maldives.
Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy is a part of the IsDB – ISFD NGO Empowerment for Poverty Reduction Program, which is sponsored by the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), managed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other strategic partners. The mission of the program is to provide visibility to CSOs`projects and activities, support them to have better access to alternative finance and connect them to potential partners and supporters.
Join the Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy where national and global experts in crowdfunding, copywriting, design, and social media will help your organization’s project to get funded, with greater visibility, and connections to donors and partners.
The Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy is an online training program that enables civil society organizations (CSOs) to raise funds using crowdfunding. It aims to empower CSOs with know-how on how to finance their projects and ideas in alternative ways, build and grow their community, give their projects more visibility, and engage more partners and donors. They are now moving the program online in partnership with Kaya platform, a global learning platform of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
What are the modules?
The Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy modules are tailored to fit your needs and to improve your skills so that you can launch your own successful crowdfunding campaign. Designed to be fun and engaging, the modules cover the needed tools for you to design your project, create a compelling story and narrative so that you can transform your idea into reality. In a nutshell, the modules will focus on:
- Introduction to crowdfunding
- Crowdfunding campaign strategy
- Building the crowdfunding ecosystem
- Setting the financial goal
- Resource mobilization
- Storytelling
- Communication strategy
- Press release
- Crowdfunding video
- Crowdfunding visuals
- Social media
- Perks
Eligibility Criteria
UNDP is looking for civil society organizations (NGOs, citizen groups, social entrepreneurs, development start-ups) that are working in the field of:
- COVID-19 response/recovery/prevention
- Poverty reduction and support for the most vulnerable groups
- Women, youth, and people with disability empowerment
- Climate change, energy, and environment
- STEM education and digital access to learning
- Community development, agriculture, and rural development.
- Refugees
- Peacebuilding
For more information, visit https://www.mv.undp.org/content/maldives/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2022/TadamonCrowdfundingAcademyCallforProjectProposal.html
