Strengthen your fundraising readiness. Prioritise the right opportunities. Build long-term support.
Many organisations struggle with fundraising not because of a lack of commitment, but because of limited time, competing priorities, unclear positioning, or difficulty identifying the right opportunities. This course helps you strengthen each stage of the fundraising journey through practical reflection, structured planning, and peer exchange.
A peek into your learning experience
Build a strong fundraising foundation
Strengthen your organisation’s readiness for fundraising by clarifying your mission, assessing internal capacity, improving visibility and credibility, and identifying key organisational gaps. Use practical checklists and reflection exercises to better understand where your organisation is today and what needs to be strengthened moving forward.
Identify and prioritise the right funding opportunities
Learn how to assess funding opportunities strategically based on your organisation’s goals, capacity, and long-term direction. Explore how to evaluate funder alignment, feasibility, partnerships, workload, and resource requirements so you can make more informed fundraising decisions and focus your efforts where they matter most.
Develop stronger proposals
Learn how to present clear, credible project plans and build realistic budgets. Strengthen how you communicate your value and respond effectively to funder feedback.
Build long-term funding relationships
Explore how to manage funding relationships over time through effective communication, reporting, and long-term engagement that supports organisational sustainability and future opportunities.
Course details
🗓️ Start date: Anytime
⌛ Duration: 5 – 7 hours
💻 Course type: Self-paced, paid
📖 Includes: 4 Modules, peer exchange exercises and final assessment
🗨️ Language: English
🎖️ Award: Certificate of completion
Learn through reflection, practice and peer exchange
🎯 Practical organisational reflection and decision-making exercises
✅ Section checklists to help identify priorities, gaps, and next steps
🧩 Scenario-based learning grounded in real fundraising situations
📝 End-of-module tasks linked to your own organisational context
💬 Peer exchange activities focused on shared challenges and practical advice
🌍 Community discussion and learning with other NGO and conservation practitioners
Designed for practitioners
- Professionals working in environmental NGOs and conservation organisations
- Staff involved in fundraising, partnerships, programmes, or project development
- Teams in civil society and mission-driven organisations seeking to strengthen fundraising readiness and decision-making
- Individuals looking to build a more strategic, structured, and sustainable approach to fundraising
For a successful completion, participants must
- Finish all modules
- Upload the 4 module tasks to the learning platform
- Pass the final quiz
Acknowledgements
Our sincere thanks to the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) and Synchronicity Earth (SE) for their valuable input and contributions to the development of this course.
*Course fee discounts
- IUCN Commission members: 33% discount on the non-profit rate.
- Young Commission members (under 35): 50% discount on the non-profit rate.
- IUCN Members organisations: up to 75% discount depending on category of membership as detailed here
Course Includes
- 15 Lessons
- Course Certificate