By providing support, training, mentoring and in some cases human resources, we equipped cultural and community organisations with skills to build capacity in their own organisation and to subsequently share the learning with others.

Fundraising Fellowship Dublin (2017-2019) was a two-year developmental programme of training and mentorship, which grew organisations’ skills and confidence to implement long-term fundraising and marketing plans. In some cases, the programme also part-funded a fellow as a full-time fundraising employee.

In 2018, the Department of Culture, Heritage & Gaeltacht and Business to Arts launched a national initiative, Fundraising Fellowship Ireland, which was informed by the Fundraising Fellowship Dublin.