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10 Steps to a Successful Fundraising Event

November 23, 2014

Fundraising events are a popular form of fundraising. While they can be great money makers for an organization, they can also be time consuming and expensive. The success of events depends on careful planning. (Yes, you should have a written event plan for every event you hold!) To help you ensure that your fundraising event is a winner, here are ten major components that you must incorporate into your event plan: 1. Purpose: Before doing anything else, you must decide what the purpose of your event is. Is this truly a fundraising event? Or does it have other goals? Perhaps…

Why paying to Volunteer

November 23, 2014

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Below is an excerpt from a book on international volunteering that helps to explain the necessity of this fee. How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Oversea. Prospective volunteers are surprised to learn that many programs charge their volunteers a fee to participate. At first, this can seeem ridiculous -Why should you pay money to work for free? Aren’t you already forgoing income you could be making? Here are a few things to keep in mind while trying to understand why the vast majority of programs charge international volunteers a participation fee: The local organizations and projects with which you…

Asan (China), 2014

November 18, 2014

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Asanfsky Li, AIESEC ZZU I am Asan Li, I arrived in Douala, Cameroon in 10th , July,2014 and began my EP trip. It took me more than 6 hours from Douala to my intern village: Bangoua, which was located in West Cameroon. At the very start, I was scared by the total strange environment, congested bus and language obstacle. However, after reaching Bangoua, everything became good. People in Bangoua were always well-mannered and kind, you could show your smile and said Hello to every stranger. And the landscape here was also awesome, I witnessed the rainbow crossed a valley, countless…

Miranda (China), 2014

November 18, 2014

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I was very glad to be in the team of the Webdev Foundation. I spent 4 weeks with lots of great partners: Asan, Manuela, Shandy, Stefan, Sean, Anna, Juana, Clara, Franklin, Aristide, Jason, Song, Stephen, Gustav, Gildas and our chief Clotaire. I had a very great time, and together we did a lot of jobs here. This could be one of my best experience in my life. I worked with Asan to teach the kids basic Chinese words. Like cloth, animals, food, verbs and so on. We combined Chinese words with pictures, and interacted with the kids, making the class…

Clara Huelskemper (Germany), 2014

November 18, 2014

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I enjoyed working with the international team very much, and I am sure that the students, too, enjoyed the cultural exchange. Sessions like Chinese were only possible with the Chinese volunteers. However, I do think that in the next years there should be more French lessons for the volunteers. They were very dependent on the French speakers, during classes and simply to go to the market. I am very thankful for the opportunity to take part in the Bangoua Summer School 2014. I spent two and a half wonderful, varied and exciting weeks with nice and interesting people. I will…

Onome Samuel (Nigeria), 2013

November 18, 2014

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The working relation was a mixture of pressure and also relaxed. There were times things got dragging and there also times things were running smooth. In general, the supervision from the CEO shows a great deal of leadership. The works of the organization is perhaps a saving grace to the people in the rural areas where the project is being held. So many people are educated in aspects they never believed to get. They say the success of an organization lies in the strength of the different teams that makes up the organization. On this note, I strongly believe that the strength of WEBDEV lies vastly…

Coady Institute’s Global Change Leaders Program 2015 for Women’s Leadership

November 17, 2014

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Deadline: 9 January 2015 Coady Institute’s International Centre for Women’s Leadership is inviting applications for the Global Change Leaders Program. It is a seven-week education program which seeks to enable women from developing countries to reinforce their leadership capacities in order to contribute to innovation and change in their communities. Global Change Leaders program provides successful candidates with a full scholarship that includes tuition, travel, accommodations, and meals. Participants will also get the benefit of the guidance and mentorship of accomplished women leaders from around the world. Eligibility Criteria This program is targeted to emerging women leaders from developing countries…

Volunteering Job-Administration and Fundraising Manager

November 16, 2014

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Deadline for application: April 1st 2015 PURPOSE Successfully create and deliver a program of fundraising events. Develop and nurture positive relationships with external organizations to maximize income generation opportunities. Undertake the “day to day” lead in the recruitment, coordination and management of Volunteers. Contribute to the development of funding support for the work of the organization, through the identification and development of new funding opportunities and the maintenance of existing support. MAIN TASKS Fundraising Members training on fundraising processes Resources Management Administration General Duties FUNDRAISING: Provides market-intelligence and research on the fundraising…

3rd annual ECHO Project in Cameroon

November 14, 2014

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Our most concerned target are deprived children in orphanages and school where most of students are from very poor families. In 2015, we will be working in the cities of Bafoussam and Bandjoun with 2 orphanages and 3 primary schools. More than 350 Kids are awaiting for our project to start.

Aska Czechowska (UK & Poland), 2013

November 23, 2013

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Getting on the project: Finding the project was rather tricky as it would not come up when I was searching the internet for volunteering in Africa. One of my friends mentioned doing work exchange as a part of her university and I used that phrase to search. Eventually I came across a student exchange blog entry that pointed me towards AIESEC on the Polish speaking internet. AIESEC is an international student organisation that can support potential candidates with finding a project to go volunteering on shorter projects, or do a longer project and get paid. When I registered with AIESEC,…