FundsforEthiopiaNGOs a social enterprise and online initiative with the goal of increasing the sustainability of NGOs in Ethiopia. .With the mission to connect NGOs in Ethiopia to the world of funding Information. FundsforEthiopiaNGOs are a social enterprise and online initiative with the goal of increasing the sustainability of NGOs in Ethiopia. We accomplish this by providing online resources fo
r NGOs to increase their awareness and access to donors, resources, and skills. We use technology to spread knowledge from our experienced fundraising experts to NGOs in Ethiopia and increase their capacity. http://habteb.wix.com/fundsforethiopiangos is an online initiative innovated by Habte Beyen (Head CCRDA resource Center, working for the sustainability of NGOs especially local NGOs in Ethiopia by increasing their access to donors, resources, and skills. NGOs around the world and especially in Ethiopia all face unique challenges in attracting and maintaining resources for their programs. Though development funding is a multi-billion dollar pie many barriers prevent NGOs in Ethiopia from successfully vying for these funds. First, announcements of funding competitions are fragmented all over the web and difficult to identify. Second, competition is strong and the application process is arduous. How can NGOs in Ethiopia spend less time fundraising and more time running programs? This was the founding concept for fundsforethiopiangos.org – to help reduce these barriers for NGOs and practitioners in Ethiopia at all levels, and of all sizes and sophistication. Providing users with free alerts on funding availability was an important first step. Starting out only a few years back with a trickle of users, the website is now generating millions of page views. Habte Byene , the Founder of fundsforEthiopianngos.org, Voluntarily leads the operations in Ethiopia Habte is a published Donor Director, writer, onlineFundraising researcher, and information professional with extensive experience in the field of sustainable development. Having worked in CCRDA the biggest umbrella NGO In Ethiopia and with various grassroots-oriented community organizations drives his desire to work for sustainable civil society development in sharing current funding calls. In starting fundsforEthiopianngos.org Habte has digitally empowered thousands of NGOs at all levels over Ethiopia Managing online the fundsforethiopianngos.org office in Addis Ababa, Habte has nearly two decades of experience working in the field of philanthropy and fundraising, ICT, and online fundraising. His Civils Society experience includes growing up in a technology-oriented organization. A successful online fundraising project and fundraising professional, Habte has shared hundreds of numerous calls for proposals to a wide variety of local and international NGOs in Ethiopia facing fund problems. Habte is also the founder of a concept o line fundraising in Ethiopia and head of CCRDA Resource center – and runs fundsforethiopiaNgos.org from this premises. For consultancy and Grantmaking
Contact Address: Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
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