Elisa Willman is a micro-giving portal designed to help fund and support youth projects around the world. It allows users to post specific microprojects between $250-10,000 that benefit people or activities, connected to a larger parent project. Microprojects have a short funding timeline and only require one report after completion, making them more targeted than traditional nonprofit projects. The document provides examples of past successful microprojects and guidelines for users to follow to utilize the micro-giving platform.
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The brochure is a welcome example of how the United Nations system and the young people it serves are growing together. By taking stock of UN system activities related to youth development, the brochure provides a chance to assess how effectively the United Nations system is responding to this important development challenge, and it helps to identify any gaps that may exist in our approach.
There is no simple way to solving the African youth question. This book seeks to make a simple but no ordinary call on all stakeholders to take steps and help solve the youth question across the continent. This is a call, which does not require guns and machetes, but intellectual and moral weapons without which lasting results can never be secured. One other important issue worth mentioning, if even in passing, is the slur of ghettoes. Ghettoes have been known to provide safe havens for criminals and traps for the vulnerable youth especially the homeless, poverty stricken and those from hot spots. Ghettoes do not only provide fertile grounds for criminals, they also provide them with the opportunity to recruit vulnerable youth to their fold. There is no doubt that, policies have no legs to walk on into reality. The traditional track for their movement into reality is through programmes deliberately designed and religiously adhered to. On the other hand, institutions implement programmes. Thus the stronger, effective and resourceful an institution is, the better the programmes are implemented and consequently the effectiveness of the policy in the lives of the intended target. The media, with its reach, the ability to set agenda, and its 'god' status in the eyes of society should attempt to educate the youth on family values to the society. Debates could be generated on the essence of the family unit among others to psyche society up by highlighting the inherent beauty of the family system. The time has come for chieftaincy institution, to reassert its traditional duties to the youth and society. This is a call for grassroot education where chiefs and sub-chiefs would engage their societies in meaningful 'Nim-tree' and Baobab-tree discussions to establish codes and reinstate the position of the family in the society and more importantly to the youth. Two critical programmes, which could provide substantive and long-term opportunities to the youth, should centre on Incubation Centres and National Employment Programme. Traditionally, incubation centres give office space and technical advice in the early years of start-ups with the capacity, by design, to support any area of entrepreneurial direction government policies indicates. The high level of expertise required to successfully manage a business, coupled with the cost of rent, makes it necessary for the government, either singularly or in partnership, to support the culture of the business incubation centres. These incubation centres should be established with the core goal of providing the necessary technical support and protection for young entrepreneurs during the critical early stages of their businesses. As a matter of national priority, African leaders need to build and empower youth entrepreneurs. The issue of job centres with an online option would enhance the job search and security of the youth. That is to say, the government should establish job centres on campuses....
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GlobalGiving hosted an online fundraising workshop in Washington DC for more than 75 great nonprofits on January 12, 2012. The attached slides comprise presentations by the three speakers - Alison Carlman, Marc Maxson and Manmeet Mehta.
5. What is a Microproject?
• A microproject is a one-time fundraising effort to help
achieve a specific activity or outcome.
• Microprojects can either benefit specific people or an activity
with a reasonably small amount of funding.
• All microprojects are connected to a “parent project”
• An average budget of $500, but can be between $250-
10,000
6. Project Vs Microproject
Parent Project Microproject
• General • Specific
• $250 - $10,000
• Any budget amount
• 90 days to fund
• No timeline • Only one required
• Reports due every 3 months report after funding
• Unlimited projects with reporting • Up to 25 projects at a
time
• Donation options
• No donation options
7. Parent Project/Microproject Examples
"$500 will send Grace to school for a year.”
Parent: Scholarships for 100 girls in Liberia
"$5,000 will provide life skills for 25 Young Women in Fort
Worth.”
Parent: Economically empower hundreds of American youth.
“$400 will provide Oscar with job training.“
Parent: Vocational training for Youth in Argentina
17. Next Steps
1) Upload a Project
2) E-mail ksammons@globalgiving.org
3) Get the go ahead to post microprojects
4) Post 5-10 microprojects
18. Terms & Conditions
• GOOD Matching will run from March 18, 2013 at 12:00:00 PST to March 27, 2013 at 11:59:59
PST.
• There is $100,000 available in matching funds from Microsoft.
• Matching is applied at 100% for every $1 up to $1,000 per donor per project between March
18, 2013 12:00:00 PST to March 27, 2013 11:59:59 PST or until matching funds run out.
• Only microprojects from vetted GOODMaker is participants are eligible.
• Only online donations (credit card or PayPal) are eligible for matching. Donations made by gift
card, check, or text-to-give are not eligible.
• We encourage you to get donations in early, because matching funds are likely to run out before
the end of the matching period.
• Please note that Microsoft and GlobalGiving maintain the right to make a final decision on all
matters concerning the adjudication of Double Your Impact and reserve the right to adjust results
accordingly.
19. 5 GlobalGiving Matching Campaign Tips
1) Reach out to your donors personally
2) Build excitement on your Facebook and Twitter!
3) Identify advocates
4) Keep the “ask” clear, relatable, and unique!
5) Use the sense of urgency (ex: “Give now, before funds run
out!”)
20. Tips from a Give for Youth Superstar:
Leadership Initiative
Step 1: Have a plan and set a goal
Step 2: Know the rules of the event and find ways to maximize
their impact
Step 3: Build a network of supporters and use that network
Step 4: Make it as easy as possible to donate
22. • Lists all your
projects in
one easy
place for
donors.
• Updated as
you add
additional
projects and
as previous
projects are
funded.
23. Next steps: Support
• Sign up for a one-on-one call with Katherine:
https://surveyglobalgiving.wufoo.com/forms/oneonone-consultations-give-
for-youth/
• Call Katherine: +001-202-330-4030
• Email: ksammons@globalgiving.org
• Reference FAQ for Nonprofits: http://www.giveforyouth.org/nonprofit-help
• Join the Give for Youth Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/431657636887271/
In response we have focused our philanthropy investments, and how we’re partnering with governments, non-profit organizations, and businesses around the world, on empowering youth to imagine and realize their full potential.Our vision is to help young people move from “opportunities imagined” to “opportunities realized,” by connecting them with greater opportunities for education, employment, and entrepreneurship. Whatever their vision for their future may be, they deserve support and the chance to make it real. To help, we have resources and perspective that can be invaluable in an economy increasingly driven by technology. And we bring technology, training, investments and experiences to the table that can be leveraged by youth and by our partners to build better futures.These programs, resources and partnerships all come together in the Microsoft YouthSpark – a global, corporate-wide initiative to empower youth to change their world.Microsoft’s global commitment through YouthSpark is to create opportunities for hundreds of millions of young people by 2015. We’ll work with governments, non-profit organizations and the private sector to make that happen on a global scale.In addition, we will drive a set of existing, enhanced and new philanthropy initiatives to help youth cross the opportunity divide. We’ve categorized these initiatives in three areas based on how they impact youth: Empower, Imagine and Realize.
Give for Youth: Beyond our own contributions, Microsoft is creating a brand-new micro-giving site focused solely on supporting youth around the world. Our goal is to aggregate youth projects that need funding in one place, and to use that platform to significantly increase giving for youth causes on a global basis.
We will send you this link when we send the one-pager.