Course Objectives

• Familiarizing participants and deepening the concepts of community projects and their role in the renaissance of societies, and their leading role in societies.
• Enabling participants to acquire the skills of project planning and preparing and community initiative, and how to study the cases and sectors of project financiers.
• Enabling participants to acquire the practical skills in ways, tools and plans to seek funding and build productive personal relationships
• Providing participants with practical experiences and expertise on the success and analysis of mega-projects, reflecting on the performance and behavior of participants towards the success of projects, and community initiatives.

Who Should Attend?

• Members of the Councils of community-based organizations, charitable associations, civil society organizations, general secretaries and their assistants, directors of project sectors and their deputies and the financial managers, those who are entrusted with these tasks, and those who wish to develop their skills in the field of preparing and financing community projects.

Course Schedule

The concept of community projects and their role in the renaissance of society

• The importance and types of community projects.
• The characteristics and philosophy of the emergence of community initiatives.
• Areas and sectors of civil and community work.
• Specifications and conditions of community-based workers.

Planning and preparing the community project

• The urgent needs of society and the birth of the project.
• Project Identity questions: Why, what, when, and who.
• Specifications and characteristics of the community project.
• Studying the feasibility of the project and the survey process.
• Elements and areas of interest of financiers..

Voluntary leadership and Fund-raising Committee

• Finance Committee and its functions and activities.
• Sub-commissions from the Finance Committee, and sponsoring the campaign.
• Specifications and qualifications of the Chairman of the Finance Committee and the project spokesperson.
• Specifications and qualifications of the fund-raising Committee..
• The need for the commission to participate in the idea of the project

Identifying the financiers, and personal relationships                                      

• Financiers’ plan and sources of information
• Investing the personal relationships, activating the role of financiers in the institution
• Social activities and the benefits of opportunities
• Types of and participation in community events

Mechanisms of funding application and financiers strengthening

• The role of satisfaction and personal appreciation of financier for funding.
• The importance of the personal interview of the financier.
• Personal centrality of the funding applicant.
• Personal specifications of the funding applicant..
• Areas and sources of support of financiers for projects.
• The art of thanks and appreciation to donors and strengthening them..
• Continual communication with financiers during and after implementation..