Non-profit capacity building in Latin America

This are exciting times in our organization, we are getting ready to embark on a wonderful adventure to create an innovative non-profit capacity building training.

For some time now, we have been collecting data and inquiring among our beneficiaries and partners organizations about what they feel are their weak points and biggest learning opportunities when it comes to use of social media and web based tools. We wanted our next course to be truly transformative, and to give social organizations, tools and information they could not access in any other way.

MAKAIA created this Global Giving project, because in our 7 years of experience strengthening social organizations, we came across the disheartening conclusion that the use of ICT and web tool has caused confusion and distress for the members of many social organizations that feel left behind by the technology wagon, which is detrimental to their advancement.

This is why with your help we are proud to present our newest Global Giving- funded training course "ICT in a Social Organization: Why use it? and What for?” The course aims to provide theoretical tools to understand the uses of ICT for social change, as well as the information on the strategic everyday use these tools with social organizations, helping them understand how this knowledge can improve their work, visibility and fundraising.

Thanks to your donations, we were able to plan and organize an 8 hour course that will be held at the end of March in one of Medellin’s beautiful library parks. We have carefully selected 15 organizations that have great need and a great attitude towards learning, to attended the course and latter receive personalized counseling in how to better use the knowledge and ICT in their day to day work. The course will include a theoretical portion to understand the strategic issues of the use of ICT in social organizations, a practical portion where we will teach them how to thoroughly utilize the tools to further their organization’s work and individualized counseling for each participant organization.

We thank you again for giving us the opportunity to teach others and strengthen their capacity every day, thus impact the thousands of beneficiaries that these organizations support.