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New Tactics E-Dialogue - Fundraising for Human Rights: Lessons-Learned and Practical Advice
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OPEN!
Join New Tactics and other practitioners for an online dialogue on Fundraising
for Human Rights: Lessons-learned and practical advice from January 18
to 24, 2012.
Protecting and promoting human rights is valuable and
important work. In order to do this work, organizations need financial
resources. Although there are many funders that recognize the value in
financially supporting human rights efforts, many organizations struggle to
find enough funding to support their work.
This dialogue is an opportunity to bring together
human rights practitioners, fundraisers, funders and others to discuss
essential questions around funding human rights work.
Where is the money for human rights?
Acquiring financial resources for human rights work can be a confusing and
complicated endeavor. It can be difficult for human rights organizations to
find the right funders that share their interest and vision. It can also
be difficult to find information on specific requests for proposals, deadlines,
funding cycles, requirements, etc. Human rights funders also face big
challenges; the economy has had a devastating effect on foundations and other
funding institutions. Funders are struggling to balance the need for support
and the available resources.
How can funders collaborate with human rights
organizations more effectively? What does successful
funder/recipient collaboration look like? What roles do human rights
groups have to influence the policies and practices of funders? What role
do human rights funders have in influencing each other's policies?
What are the components of a sustainable funding strategy for human rights work? How do we measure the impact of human rights work? When is it worth the effort to seek out small foundations and when is it better to approach larger funders/institutions? How do you know when your work is sustainable?
Our featured resource practitioners committed to help
lead this dialogue include: