Lesson series
Sustainability and Survival: Resilience for civil society organisations
The course will help you, as a CSO or CBO working with key populations, to acquire skills and confidence for organisational resilience and a more diversified and sustainable funding model. By the end of this course, we expect you to be better equipped the challenges of the current and future evolving funding environment.
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What's included?
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three 3-hour live and interactive online training workshops
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series of expert webinars
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exercises to embed the learning between events
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one-to-one mentoring support
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certificate
Strengthen the effectiveness and resilience of your organisation
Develop a strategy and plan for sustainability and pilot specific income generation approaches
Ensure that your income generation streams and targets are aligned with organisational strategy, and respond to the current funding environment
Compare the characteristics of a range of new income sources and analyse their potential fit for your organisation
Practice facilitating creative approaches to income generation with your colleagues
Anya Sarang
Dermott McDonald
Victoria Ireland
Rachel Haynes
Irena Molnar
NGO "ReGeneration", Serbia
Every homework that we had we used as an opportunity to consult our team. That push up to work together was something that I think to be very useful. There is a list of tools and exercises to assess the sustainability of the organization that I believe we can use from now on.
I concluded that each organization a couple of times in a life span should go through something like this. I do believe that we need a constant assessment of where are and how do we stand. Specifically, right now when the future is uncertain. We had a covid that showed how ready we are for specific change and how the situation will affect the work of the organization itself.
I concluded that each organization a couple of times in a life span should go through something like this. I do believe that we need a constant assessment of where are and how do we stand. Specifically, right now when the future is uncertain. We had a covid that showed how ready we are for specific change and how the situation will affect the work of the organization itself.
Milda
Arlauskaitė
NGO "Young Wave", Lithuania
I really liked the translation in ZOOM! You know, when people speak other languages you can still understand them. I also liked the part where we can do activities together, yes, online, but we can still write notes in live time.
Evgeniia Maron
Sex Workers' Forum Executive Committee, Russia
I think the most important thing I learned from the course and shared with my colleagues is that sustainability is not only how you raise money, but also how your organization works internally, and how much you use your potential. Another useful thing for me was the exchange of information. Many participants shared their achievements, problems, and, what is more, their energy.
FAQ
Number of participants
We are currently inviting expressions of interest to take up a total of twenty participant places,
ideally with 2 participants per organisation and so a total of ten organisations.
About participants
The programme is open to officially registered civil society / community-based organizations
working with or for key communities (PWUD, MSM, TG, SW) or people living with HIV operating in one of 29 EECA countries.
Participants must be employees of these organisations, that have been involved in one or more income generation activities of the organization.
Participants must be employees of these organisations, that have been involved in one or more income generation activities of the organization.
Specific requirements
You must be able to commit 35 hours to the
course during October and November, and must be able to speak and write in Russian OR English.
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