Monday, November 07, 2005

First fundraising course in S-E Asia

First fundraising course in S-E Asia: "irst fundraising course in S-E Asia

UNIVERSITI Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in collaboration with The Resource Alliance and support of Yayasan Nanyang Press conducted a 20-day course on fundraising and communication recently.

The course was conducted at UTAR’s Centre for Extension Education from Sept 17 to Oct 8.

The main objective of the course is to provide participants a platform to mobilise a diverse range of financial and non-financial resources to manage their non-governmental organisations.

The course was conducted for the first time in Malaysia and South-East Asia.

UTAR’s Faculty of Accountancy and Management and course co-ordinator, assistant prof Jeffrey F.K. Phang said the programme was a good initiative as fundraising activities played an important role in the sustainability of NGOs. "

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