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Great Project Design = New Funding + Increased Services + Positive Impact. Project Design to Attract Project Grants
Raise More Money and Do More Good. Learn how in this one-on-one mentored nonprofit training program.
6 Months | Train & Consult One-on-One With a Private Mentor | Hands-On
You will learn nonprofit project design to attract project grants—and project management techniques for increased impact.
The program is designed to help both experienced—and novice—project designers create sustainable, fundable, and manageable project designs.
You will focus on a new nonprofit project design that you want to develop during this training program. During that time, we will:
Learn by doing. Train & consult with a private mentor to develop & launch your next, impact-oriented nonprofit project design. This training program will be customized for you and your nonprofit.
In 6 months you will complete a project design with solutions for your community’s challenges.
Course participants have helped communities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Great Britain who have worked on project designs as diverse as:
The course will lead you through the project design and launch of a similar, real nonprofit project in your local community.
Work in a the Global South? This course is a better match.
Train & consult with a private mentor.
This mentored project design program provides cutting-edge information and time-saving templates.
Job-focused, downloadable content includes:
The mentor-led course will provide one-on-one instruction and expert consultancy in tandem with all of the downloadable course materials listed above.
Your mentor will offer professional comments and encouragement for each of your assignments—and lead you in developing a real, fundable, project for your organization.
Certificate: Upon completing the 6 month course and all 22 assignments, you will receive a PDF Certificate of Completion.
See the full syllabus for Nonprofit Project Management Mentored Masterclass.
Two pricing options: Enjoy a $450 self-taught FastTrack or a $1,200 mentor-led version.
Take this course with a live mentor. You will have complete access to the downloadable course resources and lessons described in the “Includes” tab. This course is also offered as a live workshop—perfect for staff or community members. Please contact us for more information.
$1,200.00
Mentor-Led Online
6 Month Program
After enrolling, you will be sent a welcome email with login instructions.
Last Step: If you have chosen to work with a live mentor, your next step is to simply fill out the student information sheet to complete your registration.
INGOs: Are you with an international NGO working in the Global South? If so, this sister course is a better match for you: Mentored Sustainable Development Project Design & Management.
INGOs: Are you with an international NGO working in the Global South? If so, this sister course is a better match for you: Mentored Sustainable Development Project Design & Project Management.
Great Communication = Increased Nonprofit Donations & Impact. Take this online fundraising masterclass and research, plan, write, launch and increase your online donations!
Real human help: The fundraising certificate program will be led by Tim Magee, CSDi’s Executive Director, who has over 40 years experience working with nonprofits. Mr. Magee is the author of The Beginner’s Guide to Online Donations. He also developed this mentored online fundraising program and has been leading it for a dozen years.
During the past 20 years, Mr. Magee has worked with 5,000 training participants from nonprofits and NGOs in 154 countries on a wide range of project designs and programs about people, the environment, and fundraising for nonprofits.
Mr. Magee is available for 1) a live workshop with your group to develop your nonprofit online fundraising program or 2) to consult with you one-on-one on your nonprofit donations program. Contact us here for more information.
“This program was absolutely awesome! The course content, instruction, example projects, on-line resources and the most valuable – your timely guidance on the assignments were all perfectly done.”
Burt Mento
“Hi Tim. Thank you so much for your support all through the mentored course. I learned valuable resources and directions The whole program is very well organized, the instructions were comprehensive and concrete so that I never had any query in any assignment. Assignments were corrected quickly with feedback and encouragement from the mentor. It is very worthwhile.
Evana Rahman
“Dear Tim. I have been reading about you for some years and that is why I selected this course. Thanks so much for your comments and positive enthusiasm on Assignment 2. I really enjoyed coming up with these ideas. Thanks so much for your lesson on writing tips. The tips on how to recycle parts of a Newsletter for other purposes are very useful. I am having lots of fun doing assignment 11, The Fact Sheet. Thanks so much for your supportive comments on my assignments and for your interest in our work in the Amazon.”
Richard Bodmer
“As you know, as a real beginner in designing projects, without your project example templates I could never have written even a single word by myself.”
Moise Tend
“Thanks for the great work you do in supporting courses with a vision to help with nonprofit impact.”
Bob Sutton
How to start your course? Enroll, login, scroll down and click on Welcome Students!
6 Months: Research your project design. Approach donors. Launch your project.
Month 1. Choose and clearly define a community and a challenge. Incorporate evidence-based solutions into your project design.
Month 2. Develop project management and project grant presentation documents.
Month 3. Identify donors for your new presentations and present them.
Month 4. Select and develop a series of no-cost/low-cost project activities.
Month 5. Learn the importance of community engagement and program co-management.
Month 6. Launch your first activity to harness community ownership and build project impact through community engagement.
Full Syllabus: See a detailed, week-by-week syllabus here.
Every community has different challenges: location, makeup, and size make each community unique. Designing sustainable solutions to community challenges will need to be on a very local, human scale. Top-down plans won’t work.
Consequently, the most important people in designing, launching and maintaining sustainable nonprofit plans are the community members themselves. They know their unique challenges, they know potential solutions, and they know what they want for their community. With your help, they will become the owners of the plan.
Types of projects that you can develop to help communities solve their challenges during your participation in this course:
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This is course is the first part of a four-course program on planning, funding, launching, and managing a local climate action plan for your community. The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
In this first course, you will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing a local climate action plan.
By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have designed a plan complete with climate change solutions that will work for your community’s climate change challenges. Your plan is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course Syllabus
8 Weeks: Develop a real-life, local climate action plan.
Week 1. Complete enrollment, meet your teacher, and explore the course resources. You will then have the next 3 weeks for Assignment One.
Week 2 & 3. Conduct a climate change conversation with community members to understand their needs, personal interests—and strengths!
Week 4. Clearly define your community and its overall climate challenges.
Week 5. Learn how to solve the challenge using locally-focused climate change solutions.
Week 6. Make sure your plan will work by checking that your climate solutions have success stories that show a proven track record.
Week 7. Assemble a detailed outline for a local climate action plan in preparation for a donor presentation.
Week 8. Share your project with your community and with a donor for feedback.
Where?
Types of communities that you can help prepare for their climate challenges during your participation in this course:
The importance of community members. Every community has different climate challenges: location and size make each community unique. Designing solutions to climate challenges will need to be on a very local, human scale. Top-down plans won’t work.
Consequently, the most important people in designing, launching and maintaining climate action plans are the community members themselves. They know their unique climate challenges, they know potential solutions, and they know what they want for their community. They will become the owners of the plan.
8 Weeks | Course 1 of 4 | Hands-On
This is the first course of four-courses on planning, funding, launching, and managing a climate action plan with your community.
You will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing their plan.
The program is designed to help both experienced—and novice—climate change planners implement bold climate action plans for ensuring that communities are prepared for a changing climate.
Course Objective
In designing a successful climate action plan you will:
Course Outcomes
Learn by doing. This climate change program is for actually launching a climate change action plan with a real community. In 8 weeks you will design a plan complete with solutions for your community’s climate change challenges.
This is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course participants have helped communities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Great Britain be prepared for local challenges magnified by global warming:
The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
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Learn to design solutions for a community’s climate change challenges.
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