Deadline: 23-Oct-23
Does your organization have a project related to the environment and climate change, but needs funding? Apply to the Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy and get the opportunity to learn how to create and run your own crowdfunding campaign and bring your environmental idea to life.
Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy is part of the “IsDB – ISFD NGO Empowerment for Poverty Reduction Program”, which is funded by the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), managed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other strategic partners. The mission of the program is to provide visibility to projects and activities, help them with alternative finance modalities and connect them to other potential partners and supporters.
Tadamon wants to empower CSOs with the know-how on protecting the environment and fighting against climate change, give their projects more visibility, create compelling stories highlighting their challenges, and finance their projects and ideas by engaging with donors and supporters.
Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy is an 8-week training program that enables civil society organizations (CSOs) to raise funds using crowdfunding.
Thematic Areas
- Your project proposal is clearly innovative and related to one or more of the thematic areas:
- Renewable energy
- Reduce, reuse, and recycling
- Ecosystem and biodiversity protection
- Sustainable agriculture and food systems
- Sustainable resource management
- Climate change
- Air pollution reduction
- Environmental education
Training Modules
- 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, and create a compelling story and narrative so that you can transform your idea into reality.
- 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
What do they expect from selected organizations?
- Motivation and proactivity
- Participation of two or three team members in all online and offline trainings
- Working with mentors Completing work assignments on time
- Launching their crowdfunding campaigns within 7 months after the start of the training program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Type of CSOs: NGO, social enterprise, development start-up, religious organization, cooperative or farmers’ association, community-based organization, foundation, saving clubs, civil society network, and credit unions.
- Country Registration: You are registered and planning to implement your project solution in one of the 32 OIC member countries. These countries are:
- Algeria, Azerbaijan, Benin, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, State of Palestine, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and Yemen. You will be asked to submit valid registration documents upon applying.
- Tadamon Membership: You are a member of the Tadamon platform. (If you are not a member, don’t worry! You can sign up now – it is easy and free). Please note that CSOs will be screened through the UNDP security platform and/or any other due diligence process.
- Language: The training program will be delivered in English (with the possibility of mentorship in Arabic, French, and Turkish).
For more information, visit Tadamon.