OU Business School offers scholarships to fundraisers
Howard Lake | 9 August 2005 | News
Fundraisers can now apply for one of 10 new £500 scholarships from the Open University Business School towards the cost of studying the School’s Winning Resources and Support programme.
The scholarships have been made available for 2005 through a donation by a charitable trust.
Applications are now being invited, ahead of the next presentation of the course in November 2005, from professional or voluntary fundraisers whose gross salaries are £25,000 a year or less and who work with a charity or voluntary/community organisation whose annual turnover is up to £2 million.
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The six-month course, which focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary for successful fundraising, leads to the Institute of Fundraising’s Certificate in Fundraising Management (CIFM), subject to membership conditions.
Winning Resources and Support uses a combination of specially-written study texts, face-to-face and online interaction and assignments relevant to the sector.
Scholarship applicants are asked to submit their letters of application on no more than one side of A4.
They should include explanations of how they plan to fit the demands of being a distance learner into their existing schedules (the course requires an average commitment of five to six hours a week); and details of the difference that improving the applicant’s fundraising skills will make to their organisation and to their personal development.
The closing date for applications is 9 September 2005.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.