International fundraising starts at home

By Pusa Nastase, Senior Program Manager, Center for Higher Education Policy, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Are you a university administrator who has repeatedly been told that the days of funding certainty are now over and that you need to look elsewhere for funds? Have you already had discussions about looking abroad because the state sector has no money and local sources of funding (national research agencies, foundations, corporations, etc) cannot be relied upon? Have you wondered how you should begin fundraising from international sources while having no prior exposure in this world?
If your answer was positive to at least one of the questions above, read on: this blog post is designed to provide you with some useful ideas to improve your fundraising ability. Read more...