The Donors
Do you ask these questions?
- What understanding of change and development informs our funding strategy?
- What do developmental funding practices look like?
- How do we work with risk as a donor?
- What sort of relationships do we want to build with grantees?
- How do we learn and develop as a donor organisation?
- How do we assess our impact?
Building on its work with a wide range of donors tds had a postgraduate practice-based programme to help you explore these and other pressing challenges and issues in your work.
Postgraduate programme in Funding and Development Practice
- To be validated by London Metropolitan University with opportunities to continue to diploma and masters levels
- One year programme starting early 2005
- Three five day residentials with interim assignments
- Online support from a personal tutor
- Core topics include understanding development, developmental funding practice, creating developmental cultures in donor organisations
- Highly interactive with extensive focus on working on cases from participants funding practice
- Extensive reading and web-based learning support
- Based in London UK and/or Budapest Hungary
- English language programme
- Maximum of 12 students with 2 core tutors
- Fee of £5,500 excluding travel and accommodation
The programme was for individuals in senior roles in donor organisations. The programme did enable students to gain greater capacity to think about, design and implement developmental funding strategies and practices.
“Working with The Development School helped us root our work in a much deeper understanding of change and development; resulting in greater capacity to identify the sorts of processes that we wish to support – the sorts of processes that lead to lasting social change for the poor, marginalised and disadvantaged communities of Central and Eastern Europe/Russia.”
Shannon Lawder, Regional Director, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation