Fundraising and Financial Assistance
Assist businesses, local NGOs, CBOs and local government institutions to:
- understand contents of a Request for Proposal (RFP), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Expression Of Interest (EOI) and tender dossier, how to respond, the pros-cons of preparing and presenting a proposal as a consortium, identifying important decision moments in the planning process of proposal writing, build up
- present a track record of your experiences and being aware of the building blocks of a good proposal through practical writing of own proposal.
- provide all information available in the market on all types of funding and assist in making applications albeit facilitating all required administrative and eligibility paperwork.
- assist in comprehensive understanding of donor priorities and objectives including EU, DANIDA, SIDA, AFD, JICA, all US Federal grants including USAID, their development policies and trends
- analyze major donors' conventions, and declarations relating to development aid and familiarity on how to access the funds.
Fundraising Strategy
Not –for-profit organizations, voluntary groups and CBOs involved in charity work, community development and socio-economic empowerment of the vulnerable populations aptly understand that their noble existence depends solely on a fundraising strategy, a 3 to 5-year plan that identifies the financial requirements of an organization or group so that it may conduct its work and carry out its objectives. At APC, we will assist to:
- develop a fundraising strategy as a working document that the staff and management can use to review and record past successes
- provide future recommendations by outlining the actions, timescales and resources that will be implemented to enable the funding needs to be met.
- develop a tool that will focus, prioritize and diversify fundraising activities to meet your organization's financial requirements necessary in attaining its mission and vision.
Program Design & Management
We at APC understand that programs are an organization’s “life-blood” and therefore, without well-designed and well-managed programs, most organizations cannot achieve their goals, fulfil their missions or see their visions come to reality. In the face of uncertain and scarce resources, our team of professionals will assist you to design and manage good programs that will epitomize your organizational effectiveness, professionalism and commitment thereby convincing donors, governments, communities as well as private sector to “invest” in all aspects of your growth and development.
Fund Management
Fund Management- APC will take away the headache of managing grant or contractual recipients, staying compliant and expanding capacity as follows:
- Operationalize the funds Terms of Reference by supporting the Fund’s governance, programme development, and reporting processes
- Contribute to the implementation, monitoring, and periodic review of the fund’s Investment and Resource Mobilization strategy and associated results framework
- Support the production of fund reports and communication material to highlight programmatic results and fund-level impact
- Support the design results frameworks for the fund aligned with other relevant frameworks, including specific Cooperation Frameworks
- Support communication and marketing initiatives for the fund
- Develop an updated operations manual for the fund in cooperation with the fund’s operations department
- Maintain a fund performance dashboard to track implementation progress across the portfolio
- Support the preparation of the semi-annual/annual reports and other briefings for partners and stakeholders as and when required.
Grant Management
Grant Management System- We assist not-for-profit organization identify the most cost-effective and easy to use grant management software to help them manage, distribute and track outcomes both programmatic and financial to ensure compliance with organization policies and donor terms and conditions.