Welcome!

Welcome to Finding Funding for Projects Based in Africa. In this 5-part course,  you'll learn about potential sources of funding, gain insight into the world of international philanthropy, and receive tips for writing better grant proposals. Designed to teach essential concepts, the course is meant for those who are new or less experienced at grant seeking.

This course complements the content found on our website, www.peakproposals.com.  If you haven't already explored our website, we recommend doing so before you start the course. We also suggest you take advantage of our free course, Getting Started: The Basics of  Finding and Applying for Grants, before you begin this course. Getting Started covers fundamental concepts about pursuing grant funding that we do not cover in this course, such as tools to track potential funders and strategies for funder research.

Course Content

The course consists of five chapters: 

• Chapter 1: Mastering the Basics of Grant Seeking 

• Chapter 2: Where & How to Look for Potential Funders

• Chapter 3: Diversifying Your Organization's Funding

• Chapter 4: Preparing for Success 

• Chapter 5: Next Steps & Resources

Each chapter consists of three or more lessons. To navigate the course, click on the chapter headings and modules on the left-hand side of your screen.The four main chapters end with an assignment and a quiz to help you apply what you just learned.

In addition to the chapters, the course includes downloadable resource lists and access to a template library.

Join the Discussion
The course platform allows you to comment on the course material. Your comments will be seen by other course participants in addition to the course leaders. We encourage you to use this feature to ask questions about the content as well as share your knowledge and experience.

Additional Reading

Throughout the course, we've included additional reading sections. These sections are populated with articles from the Peak Proposals blog. Our website has a lot of content, and we know visitors sometimes don't see all the resources found in individual blog posts. Adding select blog posts to the course content is our way of providing a curated list of relevant posts that supplement the information in the course.

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We welcome your feedback on how we can improve our content, so we please send us an email or share your comments through the course platform.

Thanks again for joining us!