Yesterday the participants of the fundraising course visited Museum of Money and today morning they studied case of the project aimed to raising funds for scholarship for poor students as well as started work on advocacy strategies to enhance effectiveness of selected projects.
Participants of the international session on fundraising are working in Warsaw since July 4. On Friday, 13th of July, Grzegorz Gruca from Polish Humanitarian Action presented good practices in fundraising and Katarzyna Leśniakiewicz from L'Arche Association spoke about involvement of students into volunteer service. The afternoon will be dedicated to the fundraising campaign organized by the Catholc school in Zagreb.
On Thursday the participants of the fundraising session in Warsaw learn how to prepare a logic model of the project description containing context, inputs, activities, outputs, and both short and long-term impact of the project on the society. Tomorrow they will listen to invited guests, who will share their experience in raising funds for and involving volunteers into project implementation.
On Wednesday Zamira Dema Muça presented Result Based Management Approach and introduced participants of the international course on fundraising into the process of applaying for grants.
On Tuesday morning, the participants of our international course held in Falenica, worked with Fr. Adam Juchnowicz SJ (topic: Contemplative listening for effective communication) and with Fr. Wojciech Żmudziński SJ (topic: Saint Ignatius as fundraiser). After lunch Ms Zamira Dema Muça (an expert from Albania) made an introduction to Project Cycle Management and Results Based Management (RBM).
Today participants from six countries continue to work with Maria Olszewska on fundraising tools. Moreover they are creating a fundraising plans for their institutions and practice how to build and maintain professional relations with individual donors.
During the second day of the course on fundraising all participants have been working on importance of personal philosophy of life, on vision and mission statement of the school as well as on the formational approach to fundraising. They also listened to the experience of the Arrupe Center in promoting educational projects.
Two weeks course "Good Practices in School Fundraising" has started today in European Centre for Communication and Culture in Warsaw. The course is a part of the project: “Professional formation of Catholic school headmasters, journalists, and youth leaders in former Soviet bloc countries” and will be concluded in July 17. Participants came from six countries: Ukraine, Albania, Russia, Croatia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
