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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. >>

Club de Fundraising

Club de Fundraising in collaboration with CtGA is encouraging actions to provide support and resources to the CSO community of Spanish speaking countries to manage the pandemic crisis. In March 2020 they began a set of pieces of training (workshops, clinics, micro-courses on social media and intense activities in all their channels and developing a sequence on Instagram Lives (first one to MSF head of massive campaigns in Argentina and a second one with Miguel Farfan, responsible for individual donors in Unicef México). >>

Responding to Community Needs: CSOs Interventions in Brazil

The civil society in Brazil is facing a difficult moment during this Covid-19 pandemic period as it discharges its mandate toward easing the grip of the disease on the community. Nevertheless, it has managed to give direct and indirect assistance to vulnerable communities across the country specifically addressing urgent issues including food security, health and information. >>

Adapting to Covid-19 for CSOs' Long Term Impact and Viability

The past decade has seen considerable changes in civil society dynamics in Africa, with reductions in traditional forms of funding. In the middle-income countries shrinking space for civil society has been witnessed in many contexts and hence eliciting questions around the legitimacy and accountability of organizations dependent on aid investment. >>