Deadline: 30-Apr-23
Apply to the first Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy and get the opportunity to learn how to create and run your own crowdfunding campaign and bring your 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 CSOs projects and activities, help them with alternative finance modalities and connect them to other potential partners and supporters.
Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy is a training program that enables civil society organizations (CSOs) to raise funds using crowdfunding. They want to empower CSOs with the know-how on building and growing their communities, give their projects more visibility, create compelling stories highlighting their challenges, and finance their projects and ideas by engaging with donors and supporters.
Selected organizations will develop their crowdfunding campaign with the support of mentors offline and online using e-learning tools.
Program Modules
The Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy modules are tailored to fit your needs and improve your skills to 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
Eligible Projects
- They are looking for civil society organizations (NGOs, citizen groups, social entrepreneurs, development start-ups) that are working in the field of:
- 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
- They expect from teams:
- Motivation and proactivity
- Participation of two or three team members in all online and offline trainings
- Completing work assignments on time
- Launch their crowdfunding campaigns within 7 months after the start of the training program
Eligibility Criteria
- Only CSOs that submit all the information required by the application form will be eligible to go through the next level. CSOs might be asked for additional documentary evidence to support their statements on the forms.
- Crowdfunding Academy project proposal application form is submitted.
- Full breakdown of project costs with clearly identified costs of each element of the project.
- A copy of your official registration in the IDB Member country is uploaded.
- Project will take place within the program Fully Eligible Area (57 MCs of IsDB Group).
- Signed letter of commitment for CSO/NGO to participate at Tadamon Crowdfunding Academy and implement crowdfunding campaign.
For more information, visit Tadamon.