Development and Learning
This page is an archive of useful learning, training and policy development resources to help your charity grow.
Opportunities
Google Ads Monthly Grant
Did you know you can get access to up to $10,000 per month in Google search ads? This amazing opportunity is available to all registered nonprofits.
Learn more here.
Capacity Strengthening Through The Pandora Project
The Pandora Project is an organisation that works with humanitarians and non governmental organisations in supporting their volunteers and workers through capacity strengthening activities which focus on the wellbeing, education, development and safeguarding of their teams.
Key initiatives include:
- Volunteer training and contextual awareness sessions
- Psychological support
- Safeguarding framework development and support
- Capacity strengthening support and programming
- Rest and respite retreats and activities
- Wellbeing programming and training
Who is this for?
The Pandora Project supports Individual volunteers and Humanitarians and aid agencies that are supporting people on the move and vulnerable populations internationally.
Want to get in touch?
Vist their website www.thepandoraproject.co.uk or contact the team at info@thepandoraproject.co.uk.
Long-term Psychotherapy by Project Root Support
Project Root Support work with organisations to provide long-term, one-to-one tailored counselling and psychotherapy sessions for humanitarian workers.
When partnering with them, you will get:
- A Risk Assessment of every team member that takes up the service
- Tailored workshops based on need
- Long-term one-to-one counselling for every team member that takes up the service
- Critical care for short-term volunteers
Who is this for?
Any humanitarian NGO, established or grassroot, seeking long-term mental health support for their teams and/or critical care for their volunteers.
Want to get in touch?
Visit their website at www.projectrootsupport.orginor contact the team by e-mail at info@projectrootsupport.org or call them on +352 691 114 127.
Tarjimly App: Free On-Demand Interpretation
Tarjimly offers:
- Free & Affordable Interpretation & Translation via the Tarjimly app.
- On-Demand Interpretation: Connect instantly with volunteer or professional interpreters, including conference calling.
- Text & Document Translation: Send texts, voice notes, photos, or documents for translation.
- Professional Services: Paid options for businesses* & nonprofits including interpreter hotline, remote interpretation, and document translation
Who Uses Tarjimly?
- Individuals in need of language support (refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, etc.)#Nonprofits, schools, clinics, community and volunteer groups, food banks, and more…
- Businesses and companies (*paid professional services only–contact us for details).
Get Help or Get Involved:
Download the Tarjimly App to get interpretation & translation services OR to volunteer as a translator: https://www.tarjimly.org/start
Pro Bono Translation Services by ProZ
ProZ offers the following Pro Bono language services to non-profits:
- Translation
- Localisation
- Voice-over
- Subtitling
- Transcription
If you belong in any of the following, you can contact the ProZ team to request their services at NO COST:
- Humanitarian initiatives
- Educational & research institutions
- Social enterprises
- Advocacy groups
Are you a volunteer who wants to help with the translations? If you are a Translators or Language Professional, Join ProZ to gain:
Career development – A chance to gain experience and exposure.
Training & guidance – Support to enhance skills and expertise.
Community engagement
Contact ProZ to get support or get involved.
Pro Bono Support by OK+
Charities and councils are focusing on increasing the accessibility of their services and resources, measuring impact and support outcomes and understanding where public demand is for services outside the NHS.
The customised OK+ platform provides:
- Bespoke digital intervention platform for service users.
- Instant access for users to all your content, resources, events and directories.
- Data insight analytics for impact measurements and measuring support outcomes.
- Communications platform to engage with more service users.
- Integrates all your charity services to increase accessibility for rural/hard to reach communities.
These are the projects we are looking to undertake:
- We do projects with organisations to have OK+ for staff/charities. If you know of anyone that might be interested please do feel free to send our info over.
- White labelling our technology for organisations to have control of and roll out for their communities specific to their requirements (this could be to measure impact/feedback as well as pushing out resources and services to scale support/measure impact outcomes). I have attached more information as a deck.
- Integrating AI hubs and go for funding together with charities to increase accessibility of support for communities.
- Research projects using preventative technology bespoke for their communities and aligned with university research teams (we are working with Bangor, Royal Holloway, BNU and City
Visit the OK+ website to find out more.
Pro Bono PR Support by Now-U
Now-U collaborates with charities to promote their initiatives, gain supporters/volunteers, and increase engagement with their campaigns.
“Once a charity expresses interest, we arrange a 30-minute discovery meeting to understand their goals, challenges, and the type of campaigns they wish to run. During this session, we provide insights into how they can leverage our platform effectively to achieve their objectives and maximise our collective charitable impact. After this initial meeting, we provide ongoing support, insights, and recommendations, ensuring that each charity’s campaign is set up for success.”
Organisational Development
Developing Your Policy Framework
Follow the links to download templates which will help you to develop your policy framework.
Planning Trackers
The following link to documents in our google drive which you can then copy or download.
[TEMPLATE] Project Planning/Strategy Planning Tracker: Use this to create clear plans for your team and meet your goals.
[TEMPLATE] Social Media Management tracker: Use this to make the planning and creation of your Marketing content clear for your whole team. Our automations have made using this sheet super effective and time saving.
Fundraising
Engaging Your Network in Fundraising
[TEMPLATE] Network Mapping Guide for Fundraising Asks: Use this template to map out your network and identify WHO you can ask for support form when running a fundraising campaign.
[TEMPLATE] Fundraising Toolkit for your Volunteers: Make a copy of the Fundraising Toolkit and share it with your volunteers to encourage fundraising for your charity.
Grants
[TEMPLATE] Grants Activity Tracker: Use this Activity Tracker to track progress on grant applications and research new opportunities. Here you’ll also find a long list of foundations, grantors and other institutes you may be eligible for funding from.
[TEMPLATE] Core Answers for Grant Writing: Downloading and filling in this template will help your grant writers be more productive, work through applications faster, and also will allow you to onboard new grant writers easily.
Additional Fundraising Support Resources
Moneytree: Answer 20 questions to receive feedback and advice on how to improve your fundraising effort; fundraising consultants are available to provide support.
Benefact Group: How to build a successful grant application.
Benefact Group: Create a fundraising plan.
NCVO: Writing your grant application.
Cause Vox: A fundraising platform with some free tier options.
Fair Collective: A social enterprise that provides appropriate practical support and advice to small charities with rates starting at £200 a day.
Charity Campaign Guide: From Planning to Execution
The Charity Campaign Guide provides end-to-end guidance and information to help you throughout every stage of your campaign.