Formulating Strategies to Mobilize Resources
By A. Scott DuPree and David Winder with Cristina Parnetti, Chandni Prasad and Shari Turitz | August 2000 | View Full Text
Abstract
This is a chapter from the Foundation Building Sourcebook: A Practitioners Guide Based on Experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The foundations in this chapter share a common objective to mobilize resources in support of communities and organizations within their societies. Beyond a fundraising activity, they conceive of resource mobilization as one of the fundamental roles they play. The choice between different strategies is quite often the result of experimentation and consultation on the part of a committed individual or group.
Examples
- Raising Support to Strengthen Local Action and Philanthropy: Foundation for Community Development (Mozambique)
- Creating New Assets for NGOs through a Market Approach: Foundation for Higher Education (Colombia)
- Building a Bridge Between Businesses and Environmental Groups: Dana Mitra Lingkungan (Indonesia)
Summary Points
- It takes resources to raise resources
- Having a diversified resource base can help prevent problems caused by the loss of any single source.
- How resources are mobilized is linked to the success of the foundation's programs in more ways than the money raised.
- Foundations raise resources for three functional purposes: program, operations and endowment.
Funding for the Sourcebook was provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, with additional support from Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Avina, Inc., the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
Foundation-Building & Philanthropic Practices | Resource Mobilization | Organizational Development & Learning | Foundation-Building & Philanthropy Tools & Sample Documents | Foundation & Philanthropy Case Studies | Africa (Sub-Saharan) | Mozambique | Americas | Colombia | Indonesia | Southeast Asia
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