Online Volunteering Opportunity with the UN: Fundraising Strategy Towards Community Water Irrigation Project

The United Nations Volunteers Program is offering an online volunteer opportunity in Fundraising strategy towards Community Water Irrigation Project. The volunteer will work with the Community Development and Sustainability Organization in collecting grants from grant-making foundations internationally in order to overcome the shortage problems of tomatoes, vegetables, and onions for the people of Kenya.

• The organization will provide you with an idea about the project, the people it will serve, objectives, and expected results. You will draft a project grant proposal and email it to the organization for review and CDS is responsible for its potential grant-making foundations, contacts, or donors.
• You will sometimes do a google search, or reading website contents of potential partners and grant projects proposals with related budget per week. They are short, small projects, no more than 13-24 pages. Volunteers will not be asked to solicit or look for funds on behalf of the organization.

• Experience in fundraising.
• English skills.
• Ability to write 2 grant project proposals per week with a budget proposal.
• Having internet and skills to do a research of call for proposals.
• Agree to do a search for a grant-making foundation supporting a charity NGO in Kenya.
• Online fundraising campaign skills.

About the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program:

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program contributes to sustainable human development through volunteerism worldwide. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device. Online volunteering is fast, easy – and most of all, effective.

Through the Online Volunteering service, UNV offers:

• A global platform for organizations and online volunteers to connect.
• An easy-search database of online volunteering opportunities.
• Tools to manage volunteers’ and organizations’ online collaboration.
• Access to online volunteering experiences, best practices, and lessons learned.
• The possibility for volunteers and organizations to expand their networks.
• The advantage of the universal reach and neutrality of the United Nations.

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