What is the eligibility criteria? 

The workshop is open to the following participants:

• People who work in nonprofit, civil society, community-based organisations and social enterprises looking to raise grants.
• Programme and project managers who need to raise funds, communicate with funders and/or understand how fundraising strategy works.
• People who work or wish to get involved in fundraising.

About the Speaker

Bhakti is a PhD student at the School of Management, University of St Andrews (UK). She is currently also a Philanthropy Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) at Ashoka University. Bhakti has spent the last eight years working with non-profits in India with a focus on organisational development, fundraising, strategic partnerships, and grant management. She serves as Guest Faculty/Mentor with the Indian School of Public Policy and the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship, coaching students and young professionals in fundraising and grant management. Bhakti holds a Master’s and M.Phil degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has been a DAAD Research Fellow (Germany) and Smith Fellow (Atlas Network, USA), and a graduate of the Asia Institute of Political Economy (The Fund for American Studies/George Mason University, USA).