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Fee schedule and booking arrangements
Here are basic cost estimates for our FunFun learning
system, offered through the US-based nonprofit, Pamoja Inc.
Set costs can sometimes be negotiated for clients
who have reasons to justify a reduction. This is done on a case-by-case
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Variable costs not included in this fee schedule.
Some costs will vary with location and level of in-kind
contributions, so they calculated separately for each situation. Thus,
this fee schedule does not include:
- Transportation to the workshop site of two international Facilitators
- Facilitators' lodging and daily allowances, both en route and at the
workshop site
- Facilitators' visas and other normal travel-related expenses
- Provision of FunFun workshop site and facilities
- Participants' costs for the workshop such as travel, lodging and meals
- Participants' costs in accessing the internet for follow-up support
services
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Plan ahead! Please contact us at least six
months before you want to have a FunFun workshop. |
Set costs that are included
This fee schedule does include the following costs:
- Course development and tailoring to meet needs of the client group
- Two Facilitators' travel time to the site of the client's choosing
- Diagnostic interviews with participants before the workshop week
- Presentation of the intensive, five-day, on-site workshop
- Materials for the workshop, including a Participants Workbook and
pocket calculators
- One year of support services by internet for each participant
- An administrative fee of 15%
Based on a workshop presented by two international Facilitators, for
a maximum of 20 participants, these set cost fees usually total US$17,000.
Can you afford this program?
- When a FunFun graduate prepares a successful proposal for,
say, US$100,000 including overhead of perhaps US$15,000, the FunFun
fee is recovered using less than one-tenth of the overhead from
that single proposal.
- A one-time investment in this course will pay for itself every
time your agency prepares a new proposal, or does strategic planning
for fundraising.
- Remember the slogan of education advocates: If you think learning
is expensive, consider the real cost of ignorance!
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Notes on how to reduce costs
The typical subtotal for the first four variable costs
listed above is US$4500 --$6500. In-kind contribution of facilitator accommodations
or workshop facilities could reduce this amount substantially. There will
be further reductions in the variable costs if two or more workshops are
offered sequentially in the same country or region.
Terms and conditions
- Terms and costs herein are in effect through
2006.
- Terms and costs are also subject to change without further notice.
- For further information kindly contact Carrol Otto and Jonathan Otto
of Pamoja Inc. jotto@vermontel.net or telephone in the US (802) 875
4727.
Booking a training course
- FunFun courses are set up by arrangement between you and Pamoja
- Unlike a predetermined schedule of courses at a set location, FunFun
comes to you, at the time and place you chose.
- Bookings are typically made six months to a year in advance of the
workshop dates
- Sometimes several agencies will team up to arrange a course, to economize
on costs and to reinforce their partnership relationships.
- FunFun courses can reserved by contacting Pamoja: info@pamoja.net.
 Requirements
- A space that accommodates up to 20 participants, with break-out areas
for small group work
- Training in or near participants' workplace usually results in distractions
and absenteeism
- No projectors or computer hook-up for presentations are needed, only
flipchart easels and paper
- FunFun can be presented in locations without dependable electricity,
or any electricity at all
Costs
- Your agency's donors may be willing to contribute to funding FunFun,
to build your capacity and diversity your funding base for long-term
sustainability.
- Pamoja has developed a basic proposal that your agency can use to raise funds to offer FunFun, you just modify it to suit your circumstances.
- Project budgets may have a line item for training or staff development
that can used to fund a FunFun participant.
Form a fundraising team
- Proposal preparation and strategic planning for fundraising are best
done as collective efforts
- Participating agencies are encouraged to send at least two people
to FunFun
- They will form the nucleus of a learning team after the workshops
experience, and reinforce each other's performance in future fundraising
efforts
- A team of trained grantsmen will increase the transfer of skills to
other staff
- If your one and only FunFun graduate leaves the organization or moves
to a position that is not fundraising, you have lost this capacity
- One individual's participation is better than none, but teamwork is
best
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