UK based institute has started a certificate course in Resource Mobilisation and Management to teach everyone the tricks of raising money for an event.
NEW DELHI: For years, raising money for an event or a cause has been the domain of those with a gift of gab but now with a certificate course in Resource Mobilisation and Management, anyone and everyone can learn the tricks of the trade.
A new training programme aimed at graduates with some work experience in the development sector, who want to hone their skills in resource mobilisation, is all set to be launched this October.
UK-based Resource Alliance -- an international network that builds fund-raising capacity of the NGO sector worldwide -- will team up with management institutes in the capital to start a certificate programme in Resource Mobilisation and Management and will teach people the art of fund-raising.
"The number of organisations seeking to mobilise resources and raise funds has grown rapidly in the last few years. There is a huge shortage of professionally trained resource management and resource mobilisation personnel," says Resource Alliance, Regional Programme Officer (South Asia) Rati Misra.
"We have stepped in to fill this gap. This programme aims to provide a systematic and professional input for building capabilities of individuals and organisations in the field of fund-raising and resource management."
The whole idea is to provide affordable and internationally recognised training to people and make a cadre of fundraiser so that they can identify resourcing requirements of their organisations and establish appropriate strategies for meeting these needs, says Misra, adding that they had launched a similar course in Mumbai last year.
Shaoli Chakravorty, Programme Coordinator of Mumbai course says, "We initiated the training programme around October 2005 and we got a good response from NGOs in Mumbai. The first batch had 21 participants from prominent NGOs like 'Pratham', 'Spastic Society', 'Concern India', 'National Association of the Blind' etc."
Meanwhile, Delhi-based NGOs are upbeat about the course as they feel it will give their organisations the much-needed fillip in terms of funds mobilisation. "I have just returned from the World AIDS Summit in Toronto and I know how strong the lobbies are in some of these African nations," says model-turned-actor-turned-activist Nafisa Ali, who runs 'Action India' for HIV/AIDS sufferers.
"I am sure if we have professionally trained people to raise funds, then we can generate a lot of institutional support for a lot of causes, especially a pandemic like AIDS."
Ali finds support from Preeti Johar, who runs 'Family of the Disabled' and who herself has attended a lot of workshops and short-term courses to enable her to mobilise resources for her NGO.
"Let's face it. The one crisis that every organisation faces is related to funds. The majority of problems in any NGO are due to lack of funds and sadly there are not many people who know how to go about raising funds."
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