Your Funding Network
Somaye Dehban
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Your Funding Network is a podcast for anyone who is devoted to their community and want to bring about a lasting change at the local and global level.
I’m your host, Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.
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Mar 14, 2022
Volunteers: Your Untapped Resource (Quarterly)
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.’
In Episode #6: Volunteers: Your Untapped Resource, I talk about Guiding Coalition which is the second stage in my personal and organizational model: Verbinding.
I also talk about the role of volunteers in fundraising. And as this is a quarterly episode, I highlight some of the topics in my 3 other podcasts and share how they are connected with Your Funding Network.
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Feb 15, 2022
Cultivating Sphere of Influence
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.’
In Episode #5: Cultivating the Sphere of Influence, I will talk about Systemic Review which is the first stage of Understanding as the first phase of my personal and organizational transformation that I've dubbed Verbinding.
I will also talk about the role of the board in fundraising which is quite critical. However, board members who have not been told that fundraising is part of their responsibility will not be willing to get involved. I will also share with you what I consider the true meaning of freedom!
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Jan 18, 2022
Team Effort
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community-based organization and initiative.’
In Episode #4: I will be talking about "Understanding". Understanding is the first phase of a model that I have developed over the last couple of years in the domain of personal and organizational transformation and change management or better to say change leadership.
I will also talk about the necessity for understanding the context in which we raise funds as well as the role of the consultants and solicitors. I will also talk about the new version of 80/20 rule and why and how we can apply it in our fundraising.
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community-based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Dec 21, 2021
Terminology (Quarterly)
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.
The Episode #3: Terminology is dedicated to providing definition of terminologies used to describe the process of fundraising, and how at the end of the day, this is all about the relation built with the donors. And I provide a summary of topics that were presented in my other podcasts and they are linked to Your Funding Network.
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Nov 15, 2021
Back to Basics
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.
In Episode #2: Back to Basics, together, we go over the 6 basic yet essential questions of fundraising that are developed by Linda Lysakowski – my mentor in fundraising. I go through each of these questions and provide straightforward answers for each of them.
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Oct 19, 2021
Prologue
Hallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community-based organization and initiative.
In Episode #1: Prologue, I talk about my mother's activities as a legendary community-based fundraiser and why we need to focus on community-based fundraising to bring about sustainable change. I also talk about why I am advocating for defining an "exit point" for development aid.
Join me every 3rd Tuesday of the month to hear about the role of community-based organizations in achieving sustainable development goals, and how to diversify funding resources of your local initiative and increase your self-financing for a sustainable and durable change.
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Oct 7, 2021
Trailer: Your Funding Network with Somaye Dehban
Your Funding Network is a podcast for anyone who is devoted to their community and want to bring about a lasting change at the local and global level.
I’m your host, Somaye Dehban, a networked Dutchified Iranian who is on a mission to bring about financial stability for every community based organization and initiative.
Want to hear more?
Sign up for my thematic newsletters to get notified about each episode and more. You can do this by going to my website: somayedehban.com/newsletters.
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