The Funding-Ready
Workshop: four deep-dive sessions, more yeses from funders.
No more fuzzy proposals. No more fuzzy budgets. In one playful, highly structured cohort you will turn a strong programme into a fundable package: a clear case, measurable outcomes and a full-cost budget funders can trust. The workshop runs on a recurring basis, with dates set together with each cohort.
Facilitator
Janine Ayoub
Cohort
2 organisations max · 2–3 people per org
Duration
4 sessions · 3 hours each
Type
Play-based · Hands-on · Fundraiser-led
If two or more of these resonate, this workshop is for you
- We keep getting grant rejections.
- We can't explain our impact clearly.
- Our budgets don't cover admin or salaries.
- The programme keeps changing per donor.
- We don't have clear metrics or a data plan.
- Our board is asking for a more compelling case for support.
- We have passion, but not enough evidence.
The four sessions
Session 1
Programme clarity and outcomes
Key learning: Articulate purpose and direction; connect activities to outcomes in a simple logic model.
Deliverables: Draft problem statement and project logic.
Session 2
Impact metrics and storytelling
Key learning: Move beyond counting activities; choose indicators and design simple ways to track and share evidence.
Deliverables: Storytelling templates and an impact measurement plan.
Session 3
Full-cost, flexible budgets
Key learning: Link budgets to outcomes; allocate true costs including salaries and admin, and build funder confidence.
Deliverables: Flexible budget with highlighted allocations and a budget narrative.
Session 4
Team readiness and relationships
Key learning: Strengthen internal management capacity for continuous impact measurement, donor relationships and grant management.
Deliverables: Donor identification and relationship plan, plus a team management TOR.
What you leave with
Everything is built for your actual programme, not a hypothetical one.
- 1-page programme brief, case-for-support ready
- Logic model / outcomes map with a KPI set
- Full-cost, flexible budget with eligible-cost notes and a narrative
- Team readiness plan for donor engagement and grant management
- Impact story outline: evidence plus narrative
- Funding Readiness Checklist, a self-assessment for a single programme
Structured, not endless
Four 3-hour sessions
Virtual and cohort-based, camera optional, recordings for review.
Small-group coaching
Templates and real examples, with only two organisations per cohort.
Light homework
One to three hours a week between sessions.
Bring a live programme
Not hypothetical. Bring 2–3 team members across programme, comms and finance.
Clarity
Funders see exactly what you do, for whom, and why it matters.
Impact
Outcomes and KPIs make your case tangible.
Trust
A full-cost budget and a steady plan show feasibility and stewardship.
Your trainer and facilitator
Janine Ayoub
A programme designer and monitoring-and-evaluation practitioner turned working fundraiser, with 15 years in nonprofit management and a track record of winning grants with mission alignment. She has built countless logic models, crafted fundable cases and budgets, advised alongside donor funds and programme assessors, and brings community-centric principles into the work.
- Streamlined a youth programme: multi-year funding secured after clarifying outcomes and adding impact data — €1M secured.
- Rebuilt a community engagement budget: salaries and admin accepted through a clear cost rationale — 70% of admin covered through programmes.
- Converted a passion project into a fundable pilot with donor buy-in and a clear plan — $20,000 in pilot funding.
Want a spot in the next cohort?
Cohorts are deliberately tiny, so there is room for real coaching. Reach out to hear when the next one starts.