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Nutshell: I run a voluntary agency in India. I invite international volunteers and connect them with Indian organizations that wants to work with them. These volunteer often donate money - while still here in India - and want to carry on their support to 'their project' once back home. A growing number is asking me to help them doing this.
Nutshell 2: I have a partner network in India of 100+ organizations - most NGOs - out of which 20 are selected to form a core-group where most, if not all the volunteers are going to be placed in 2010. A growing number of them ask me - through their directors - to (help them) raise funds, in India and abroad.
Nutshell 3: A year ago I started using Facebook and Twitter. Already an ardent user of both (Twitter lists, Twitter Analyzer, Facebook Homepage, FB Groups and FB Fan page) as a supplement to my own website (http://www.amaidi.org) I wonder how to put them to use so that I can help both before mentioned groups: volunteer-donors and NGOs.
Perhaps I could put it this way: "Are Facebook and/or Twitter useful tools in helping (Indian) NGO's to raise funds for their development projects, and (ex)volunteers/donors - that want to invest in their projects - doing just that.
Of course it also occurs to me that both challenges would perhaps best be taken up apart, but there it is, this is the way I have presented it now to you. So shoot! If this all makes sense, I'm looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Camille van Neer
AMAIDI Volunteering in India
http://www.amaidi.org
Nutshell 2: I have a partner network in India of 100+ organizations - most NGOs - out of which 20 are selected to form a core-group where most, if not all the volunteers are going to be placed in 2010. A growing number of them ask me - through their directors - to (help them) raise funds, in India and abroad.
Nutshell 3: A year ago I started using Facebook and Twitter. Already an ardent user of both (Twitter lists, Twitter Analyzer, Facebook Homepage, FB Groups and FB Fan page) as a supplement to my own website (http://www.amaidi.org) I wonder how to put them to use so that I can help both before mentioned groups: volunteer-donors and NGOs.
Perhaps I could put it this way: "Are Facebook and/or Twitter useful tools in helping (Indian) NGO's to raise funds for their development projects, and (ex)volunteers/donors - that want to invest in their projects - doing just that.
Of course it also occurs to me that both challenges would perhaps best be taken up apart, but there it is, this is the way I have presented it now to you. So shoot! If this all makes sense, I'm looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Camille van Neer
AMAIDI Volunteering in India
http://www.amaidi.org
Tags: India, International, NGO's, communities, development, grassroots, volunteering
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Permalink Reply by David Wilcox on
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Thanks Camille - that's a really interesting challenge. In order to get down to the tools, it would be useful to know a bit more about the particular fundraising and communication activities. What would you hope someone would be able to do?
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Permalink Reply by Amaidi on -
Hi there David,
Thanks for showing an interest in my topic. Well, concerning the fundraising and communication activities involved, I'd say that these aim at establishing a durable relationship between a local development organization (NGO) in India and a local or international donor agency. This is the hard-core aim of all NGO's, as without the money they are unable to develop anything. Communication is all with the donor agency - on behalf of an NGO partner who will submit a project proposal for which he needs money - but also seeking new donor agencies (or angel investors) who have a need from their side to spend money on certain projects. In the latter case, we will map those needs and find out in which area they want to spend money in India and then find a local development organization who is able and willing to implement such a project. Communication will here be with the (new) donor and the NGO partner.
Next to connecting to existing and yet to source domestic and foreign 'anonymous' donors, our ex-volunteers - often while they are still here - want to give generously to the projects they work on. On leaving India, they are anxious to know that 'all will continue to go well' in their absence. For that they have asked our support. Here communication goes towards the (ex)volunteer while back in home country and with the partner in India where the money is being spend on materializing an agreed achievement, f.ex. building a toilet or giving a course.
Hope this does not make things worse but enlighten where I would like to go,
Greetings,
Camille
David Wilcox said:Thanks Camille - that's a really interesting challenge. In order to get down to the tools, it would be useful to know a bit more about the particular fundraising and communication activities. What would you hope someone would be able to do?
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