This route is for researching potential funders or donors and checking evidence before outreach—not for drafting an application. All eight selected courses have nonprofit-sector context.
01Are you researching grant opportunities, donor prospects or broader fundraising evidence?
02Check how the course verifies sources and handles data or privacy limits.
03Confirm whether it teaches discovery, evaluation or outreach drafting; these are separate tasks.
A learning selection process, not a provider exercise.
Research and proposal writing are separate stages
Selected fundraising curricula include prospect work, donor communications, giving analysis and stewardship cases. They can support discovery and judgment; they do not necessarily teach funder-specific proposal drafting or compliance.
Do not infer data access
A course about prospect research does not imply access to private donor or funder data. Use approved sources and keep human review over relevance, privacy and outreach decisions.
Use donor communications, prospect, giving and stewardship cases to evaluate privacy, bias, vendor risk, accountability and appropriate human decisions.
Learning cost
USD 209 AFP member · USD 279 nonmember · October 2026 seat
Select tools, build contextual prompts, critique and refine responses, verify evidence and apply human judgment to needs assessments, program design, donor mapping, proposals, MEAL and reporting.
Learning cost
USD 99 standard · USD 59 verified current GIHDS students · complete short course
Research credible funders, cross-check sources, review RFP criteria, build scoring matrices and proposal checklists, and draft with funder-specific language and human review.
Research, structure and draft a bid from organizational data, tighten word counts, simplify language and check funder criteria through a worked full bid.
Learning cost
GBP 350 advertised; tax not established · advertised course price; seat/group basis requires confirmation