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Meet the Funder Lessons from The City Bridge Trust programme Delegate fee: FREE SEL warmly invites you to a FREE learning conference on achieving financial sustainability within community groups. Supported by The City Bridge Trust, over the last year SEL has run an innovative programme of support with 36 organisations to enable them to develop financially sustainable practices. The aim of this conference is to disseminate the learning from that programme. There will also be an opportunity to meet the Deputy Head of Grants at The City Bridge Trust, so if your organisation could benefit from a greater focus on financial sustainability then make sure you come along.

The materials link to Every Child Matters outcomes and focus on four areas: * community cohesion (including neighbourhood participation, community safety (especially issues around guns), gangs and knives) * health and wellbeing (including sport, healthy eating) * arts and culture (including encouraging reading, museum work) * sustainable development (including global trade, sustainable living).

There is a scheme of work for a scrap booking course that looks like a good place to start - thinking Paula

Rach, I chased up the email you forwarded to me from Tricia - regarding an LSC subsription email. Some of the links were a bi beyond me and I guess Crhis could flesh out more. But I did find this page with tender related information. Again, not anything I could sink teeth into, but perhaps ohters? Tenders: Apprenticeship, Third Sector ESF Tender, Sustainability.

A sustainable funding model can be used by Nonprofits as part of theprocess to figure out whether and how they can attract growth capital! - think like the business world! A further summary in the bubble on the page ;o)

"Human Centered Design Toolkit Close For years, companies and other organizations have used Human-Centered Design to arrive at innovative business solutions. Funded by IDE as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in collaboration with non-profit groups ICRW and Heifer International, IDEO relied on this approach to improve the lives of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The resulting HCD Toolkit helps NGO staff and volunteers understand people's needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The free kit is divided into four sections that bolster listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas. The HCD Toolkit contains the elements to Human-Centered Design, a process used for decades to create new solutions for multi-national corporations. This process has created ideas such as the HeartStart defibrillator, Cleanwell natural antibacterial products, and the Blood Donor System for the Red Cross--innovations that have enhanced the lives of millions of people. This process has been specially-adapted for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and compiled into a Toolkit available for download here or for order at cost at www.blurb.com."

All you need to know to run and sustain an arts group.

Adventure Capital Fund: Business Development Grants - 11 days (1st round) left to apply in this round! - next round in May! The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) offers a range of investments and support to develop stable and sustainable community based enterprises.

Get some dough for your charity - check out blurb and website ;o)

FSI's principle objective is to work in partnership to learn, share learning and help build long-term sustainability and capacity in the Third Sector. We do so by delivering or creating the resources small not-for-profit organisations need to develop to have a greater impact on those they are set up to support.

What I am learning in the online research I'm doing for cybercommunities is that funders are not so much interested in the ICT per se, but how it will be used as part of a much wider project to benefit others. Which is what we want to do - so that's great!

Some organisations that fund ICT

I'm sure Michelle will join, if you keep putting stuff on that interests her! There are similarities between what the authors are saying and family learning. In the same way that you can't just put a roof on a homeless person's head and simply expect them to stay there, you can't just put someone into a family learning class either. That's where CLP comes in, with our holistic approach!!

INSPIRATIONAL CHARITY WEBSTIE: must see!!!!

Hiya Eliz - this page is a google HTML version of a newsletter to the event. I want it as link for the blogpost. Plase save to your library, then view the page, then in toolbar - select: send (triangle) -> get annotated link. Please send this link so I can bil.ly it as cli.gs is playing up since last night!

Free on-line knowledge and learning centre for non-profit organisations.

You can register on site and receive newsletters etc. Sections on branding, raising awareness of your org, funding, campaigns, leadership, change etc. Fab!

Sustainability tips for non-profits