Operationalising the vision
GMin is an international non-profit that has provided STEM education, mentoring and entrepreneurial support to over a thousand teenagers in Kenya, Sierra Leone and South Africa. GMin was looking to expand its operations, and needed a fundraising strategy to enable that.
Taumba was engaged to support GMin’s Board and management in developing and implementing a multi year fundraising strategy. Our approach was holistic. We began by applying our Six Factor Audit Framework to identify areas of relative strength and weakness within the organisation. We identified “Strategic and operational cohesion” as a critical area for improvement before any fundraising efforts could begin.
Through workshops and collaborative planning sessions with on the ground program implementers, existing partners, management and board members, we translated GMin’s vision and high level strategy into a clear implementable four year operational plan.
With this clarity on approach and objectives, we were then able to develop a fundraising strategy for GMin. In addition, we mapped the donor landscape for the organisation and developed easily adaptable templates and reporting tools that GMin staff will continue to use long after our engagement is over.
The GMin team are now actively fundraising, and are on track to meet their operational objectives.