What is PROMENGO?

NGO Managers Program PROMENGO is a unique educational initiative addressed to the management personnel of NGOs, conducted in a blended-learning mode that combines stationary face-to-face trainings, on-line learning, and practical implementation of managerial solutions developed by participants.

The main element of PROMENGO is a series of NGO management courses, which covers 9 subjects that are important for all non-profit organizations irrespective of their mission profiles, legal form, experience, or number of completed projects.

In the core curriculum, there are the following subject areas: strategic planning, marketing in NGOs, fundraising, elements of law in NGO practice, human resources development, financial management, project management, team development, and interpersonal skills.

Each area is comprised of 3 parts:

• stationary face-to-face training in the form of a 2-day workshop;
• e-learning, i.e. a screen-based self-paced on-line course that may be complemented with other materials or forms of distance learning proposed by the trainer;
• end-of-course assignment, which is a practical task to be implemented in one’s own organization, and to be consulted beforehand with the trainer.

Additionally, anyone can use the diagnostic tool Extended Disc and obtain an individual report whose interpretation rules are explained during the classes.

Participation in the program requires approximately 250 hours of learning in total, dedicated to stationary training courses, on-line work, and preparation of the end-of-course assignments. So far, 3 editions of the programme were completed.

What is Kursodrom?

Kursodrom is an e-learning platform with free-of-charge educational resources on the topic of NGO management.  It provides unlimited access to courses, films, webinar recordings, on-line tools and other materials.

Our platform is dedicated mostly to the managers of NGOs and persons who prepare to perform such a function. We also invite non-governmental specialists, trainers, advisers, and other persons interested in the field of organizations management to study the materials available on Kursodrom.

Kursodrom can be used 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, from any place with Internet access.

Kursodrom – a place from which you can start your educational journey!

FAOO meetings

Open meetings organized by FAOO are an opportunity to explore important issues faced by leaders, employees and activists of NGOs on an everyday basis, which are not discussed frequently and openly enough.  Invited guests are experienced specialists, leaders, managers of organizations, i.e. persons who want to and can share their thoughts, knowledge, and know-how.  We aim to provide space for direct contacts between participants and speakers, therefore the traditional formula of conference is enhanced by various workshop elements.

So far, we have organized the following meetings:

• Self-development management as an important managerial competence
• Fundraising - facts and myths
• Do NGOs manage people well?
• Fundraising – new opening
• Let’s discover the individual donors
• 1st NGO Managers Forum

FAOO webinars

To all those who are busy, to managers employees and volunteers of organizations, who lack time, we recommend FAOO webinars. They are approximately one-hour-long, on-line meetings with experts, each dedicated to other subject that is helpful in managing an NGO. Issues discussed so far concerned among others: cooperation with local government authorities, cooperation with business, fundraising, crowdfunding, volunteers’ management, organizational development planning, and many others. Webinar recordings are placed on the Kursodrom platform, so one can recall them or, those who could not participate in them, may afterwards familiarise with their content.

Specialist fundraising courses

Within the courses that last for a few months, the participants develop their competencies of creating fundraising strategy, managing relations with donors, methods and techniques of fundraising, developing and implementing fundraising campaigns. Classes are conducted by mixed teams of experienced fundraisers and professional trainers. Participants complete the end-of-course assignments that relate to their real fundraising activities. The assignments are evaluated by trainers and each participant is given feedback.