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Your fundraising partner for growth and sustainability – from an extensive funds database to tailored funding research and funding strategy.

Funding research and funding strategy

Are you tired of spending several hours searching for funding opportunities for your entity?

Is your organisation struggling with low funder response rates and uncertain which funding prospects to pursue? Does your organisation apply for grants and funding but never win?

Does finding funding for your organisation seem like an impossible, never-ending task? Time is money when it comes to fundraising. The time you spend researching funding opportunities could be used to engage with donors and partners and to achieve your mission.

Let us help you save time by screening, verifying, filtering and developing a personalised hand-curated funding strategy.

A funding strategy lets you know the funding landscape and provides a roadmap of what opportunities to pursue in the next 12-24 months.

Let GEM Business Consult develop a hand-curated funding strategy for your specific funding needs to save you valuable time and help you acquire the funding needed for your projects.

To get started, we want to meet you to understand your organisation, mission, vision, projects and funding needs. We then do the research and come up with a personalised funding strategy.

GemFundsDatabase

Are you searching for funding opportunities like grants, impact investors and donors to fund your projects?

If you are, our Funding Database GemFundsDatabase will help you to:

Save time
Research and find funders, donor profiles and grants
Navigate the complex funding landscape by quickly searching and filtering for what you need
Quickly learn about the eligibility criteria, deadlines, amounts funded and requirements for application and compare various funding options

Use GemFundsDatabase to easily search hundreds of grants, donors and impact investors funding projects in Africa, helping you achieve your mission!

Fundraising consultancy

Are you in need of a fundraising consultant and grant writer who will guide you to make the right moves with the right funders so that you can grow your grant revenues over time?

GEM Business Consult can partner with you over 6-12 months to support you in growing your revenue. We will help you to:

Review your current grant funders and research new funding possibilities to develop a funding roadmap of the funders that merit your focus and attention.
Strategise with you to gain positive funders’ responses by preparing compelling grant proposals and submit on your organisation’s behalf.
Engage with you in regular grant/funding Strategy Sessions to review progress, discuss upcoming priorities, and advise you on moves to make with grant funders.

This plan is best suitable for an organisation if you:

Are an established organisation that has been in operation for at least three years.
Have an annual operating budget of at least € 250,000, evidence of a financial audit and prior experience with fundraising.
Have a staff member, for example, the executive director or program officer, who can devote time and focus to building and nurturing funder relationships with our support.

Grant writing

Do you need help with grant writing? Have you written the application and need a second pair of eyes to review or edit it? Are you using a lot of time to write and edit applications?

Grant writing can be intimidating, time-consuming, and requires meticulous attention to detail. However, we have mastered the very defined writing style necessary for crafting proposals and the delicate integration of statistics in a powerful story. As a result, we can ensure a final proposal that appropriately, clearly, and concisely answers each question in the application.

We can help you with all aspects of proposal preparation, grant writing and editing. In addition, we help manage the entire process for you so you can submit your application before the deadline.

Business Plan

Excellent Business Plans attract investors. A business plan is a document which describes details about your company. It states the goals of your business and a roadmap on how to achieve them. A great business plan helps create a strategy for growth, determine future financial needs, and attract investors and funding.

We help develop a successful business plan, develop a business model and a commercialisation plan. We analyse the market, customers, value proposition and your unique selling points. The result is a great business plan ready for you to present to funding agencies and investors.

Are you a social enterprise/SME looking for investors to fund your entity? Do you need help with developing your business plan? Book a consultation call below to get started.

Strategic Plan

A strategic plan is not just a roadmap, it’s a powerful tool that paints a vivid picture of your organisation’s future. It’s a guide that outlines your long-term vision and goals, and the strategies and tactics you’ll use to bring them to life. It typically covers three to five years and provides a framework for decision-making and resource allocation, making it an essential part of any successful organisation’s strategy.

The value of a strategic plan lies in providing direction and clarity for the organisation. It helps align everyone in the organisation towards common goals, provides a basis for decision-making, and assists in resource allocation. It can also serve as a communication tool for stakeholders, such as employees, investors, and partners, to understand the organisation’s priorities and plans for the future.

At GEM Business Consult, we support non-profit organisations, NGOs, and mission-driven for-profit businesses in developing strategic plans. We value your vision and are here to guide you every step of the way.

Are you a non-profit, NGO or mission-driven for-profit business? Do you envision a more successful future for your organisation? Schedule a call with us today to begin developing a strategic plan that can unlock your organisation’s full potential and pave the way for sustainable growth.

One hour strategy session

Do you ask yourself, “where do I start? What is the best action plan to raise funds successfully?”

Schedule a strategy session to help you define a strategy to raise funds for your organisation and create an action plan based on our discussion.

We could, for example, look at any of the following:

Exploring the funding landscape
Guidance on the world of grants
Help to strategise on pursuing grants and other funding opportunities
Outreach strategies
Review your program priorities and funding needs

Your Deliverables:

A transcript of the meeting
Personalised Action Plan

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Training Courses

We are introducing a unique capacity development and training program to empower small and medium non-profits. This four-week training, which includes interactive virtual sessions, is tailor-made exclusively for you, our executive directors, development directors, founders, board members, and key staff members. It’s a transformative journey of learning, growth, and strengthening your organisation’s capacity to seek and secure grants.

Great support and expertise I want to write to commend you for the work GEM Business Consult has done for us as His Grace International Ltd. Ever since you did consultancy for us in writing a business plan, and corporate plans you have not left us where you found us. We were desperate and had gaps in performance coupled with poor record-keeping and forecasting of the business.

Your hand in our business has helped us with outlook, planning, budgeting, and even having a leaner human resource structure that has targets and goals. Our growth is now predictable because of you.

We, therefore, commend you and say thank you. We shall deal with you again and again and recommend you to others to do the same.

As a non-profit organization, we struggled to win grants until we met Lydia and her team at GEM Business Consult. They assisted us in developing a funding strategy, writing and reviewing our applications and continuously explore new opportunities for us to apply for. Thanks to their expertise, we recently won our first grant and are working with them to secure more funding for our upcoming projects. It is a pleasure working with GEM Business Consult as they are always available to provide guidance and support whenever needed.

Nazanin and Lydia assisted us in developing our business plan and pitch deck. With their expert guidance and support, we successfully presented our ideas and secured funding from an investor to support the growth and expansion of our enterprise. We highly recommend their services to anyone seeking professional and effective business support.

Securing funding through grants can be a daunting task that requires a considerable amount of time and expertise. Lydia, through GEM Business Consult, has been instrumental in developing our outreach strategy, writing, editing, and submitting our grant applications. With her help, we no longer struggle to secure sustainable funding. We don't have to worry about identifying new opportunities or dedicating a significant amount of time towards fundraising efforts. Thanks to her efforts, we were selected for one of the funding opportunities she recently identified for us, and we have more opportunities in the pipeline.

Our services

Funding research and funding strategy

GemFundsDatabase

Fundraising consultancy

Grant writing

Business Plan

Strategic Plan

One hour strategy session

Training Courses

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