From Grassroots to Sustainable Support: A Fundraising Journey

How can small, grassroots organisations build a sustainable fundraising approach without a large fundraising team or extensive resources?
Fundraising is not just about asking for money—it is about building trust, relationships, and belief in the work you do. In this peer-learning session, Ashish, Co-founder of Shikharth, will share his organisation’s fundraising journey, experiences, challenges, and learnings from building support for a grassroots organisation.

The session will explore how Shikharth has approached fundraising, built relationships with supporters, communicated its work and impact, and navigated the realities of fundraising as a resource-constrained organisation. Participants will hear practical experiences and lessons that they can reflect on and adapt to their own fundraising journeys.

Key Takeaways

• Learn from Shikharth’s real-world fundraising journey, including challenges and lessons.

• Understand how small organisations can identify and build relationships with potential supporters.

• Explore how storytelling, impact communication and consistent engagement can build donor trust.

• Learn ways to nurture donors, volunteers and supporters into long-term advocates.

• Reflect on practical, low-resource approaches to building a more sustainable fundraising strategy.

Who Should Attend

Founders, CEOs, fundraising and programme teams, and leaders of small and grassroots organisations, particularly those working in non-metro locations and looking to strengthen their fundraising approach.

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Additional Resources

Here are some additional resources you can go through if you would like to learn more about the topic.

1. Practical Insights and Learnings on Fundraising by NGOs

2. Examples of fundraising success stories