For small and grassroots organisations, fundraising can often feel challenging due to limited resources, small teams, and restricted access to donor networks. However, sustainable fundraising is not only about having a large fundraising team or sophisticated tools, it is also about building trust, nurturing relationships, communicating impact effectively, and creating a community of supporters who believe in your work.

Drawing on Shiksharth’s fundraising journey, this peer-learning session shares practical experiences, challenges, and lessons that organisations can reflect on and adapt to their own fundraising context.

With this session, you will be able to:

1. Learn from a grassroots organisation’s fundraising journey: Learn from the experiences and lessons of a resource constrained organisation and explore practical ways to build a more structured and sustainable fundraising approach.
2. Build relationships with potential supporters: Explore practical ways small organisations can identify potential supporters and gradually build meaningful relationships with them.
3. Nurture long-term supporters and advocates: Understand ways to engage donors, volunteers, and other supporters over time and encourage them to become long-term advocates for your organisation.
4. Strengthen storytelling and impact communication: Learn how communicating your work, stories, and impact consistently can help build trust and belief among donors and supporters.

This session is recommended for founders, CEOs, fundraising professionals, program teams, and leaders of small and grassroots organisations particularly those working in non-metro locations and looking to strengthen their fundraising approach through practical, low-resource strategies and peer learning.