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Change the Game now in the Khmer language

Change the Game Academy is now available in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia. “This is a great opportunity for Cambodian NGOs, CBOs and Youth groups; it helps them to be self-sustainable. Building a larger platform for these local groups will help them to gather and discuss a modern approach in fundraising and mobilising support”, says Sopheap Chea, Senior Program Officer at Advocacy and Policy Institute (API). >>

New Module: Advanced Fundraising Techniques

This module will help CSOs to explore innovative financial models: consultancy services, asset building, membership fees, social enterprise, microcredit, subsidiary profit-making enterprises, incubation, private sector funding, social and green bonds, crowdfunding and fiscal sponsorship. >>

Shift the Power at World Café: a thought-provoking debate about Southern leadership

In the fifth edition of the World Café, an interesting conversation between Southern leaders and top officials from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to rethink power relations in international development. >>

The Baking Adventure of Edumed Trust in Kenya

The Cake Festival has been a lively fundraising event held by the Kenyan Edumed Trust for over 10 years that treats the public with cake and pastry samples, offerings from bakeries, workshops, competitions, live music, kid activities and bake offs. With COVID, Edumed Trust, which supports students through secondary school scholarships, pivoted and brought this delightful event as the Baking Adventure. >>

Living Positive Kenya on local fundraising

"Community has to be the center of local fundraising for it to be sustainable,” says Mary Wanderi, Founder and Director, Living Positive Kenya. >>

"We're sitting on a gold mine and we didn't know it."

One participant shared with a group at an in-person Change the Game Academy Local Fundraising training, "We're sitting on a gold mine and we didn't know it." Participants learn they can tap into a very local environment to raise donations. >>

International Women's Day and a new module on gender

"If you really want to develop society, you cannot imagine an equitable and just society without gender inclusivity in the development process." >>

Announcing Giving for Change: new partnership from the Dutch government takes community philanthropy to the next level

Change the Game Academy is delighted to announce our participation in an exciting new partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invest in community philanthropy development in eight countries. The programme will promote local giving as a strategy for achieving community-led development by increasing local ownership, buy-in and rights claiming and by challenging the notion that development is something that is “done to” communities by external actors. >>

Accredited certificates now available

After finishing any module, you can now purchase a personal certificate accredited by the NCOI University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The e-course on Local Fundraising is also endorsed by the The Resource Alliance, a global network for fundraisers, and the e-ecourse on Mobilising Support is endorsed by CIVICUS, global alliance for civil society. >>