Strategic Aim 1 - "Building the Charitable Community Foundation Endowment"
Rationale
The key challenge for the Trust itself and the work we undertake within the County is sustainability.
There is a strong tradition of giving financial support to good causes locally. The Trust aims to harness the strong sense of giving, identity and place which exists in County Fermanagh and beyond both regionally and internationally, by developing a local Community Foundation which individuals and organisations large and small will identify with and support.
The Fermanagh Community Foundation Endowment Fund will be a vehicle for co-ordinating and matching donor interests and concerns from all sectors and spheres with local charitable, voluntary and community concerns, actions and initiatives. It will comprise a portfolio of funds that will enable the Trust to continue to provide financial and practical assistance to support charitable action, the building of social capital, active citizenship, peace building and quality of life within our community. This will assist the Trust in moving to an increasingly autonomous position.
Fundamental to the successful attainment of this strategic initiative during and up to 2006, shall be the cultivation, development and maintenance of relationships, linkages and communication with a range of donors and supporters near and far. Also, it shall be contingent on the utilisation of a range of fundraising approaches and techniques that link our internal capacities and strengths with the external donors and supporters needs, interests and motivations.
The Fermanagh Trust will strengthen its linkages and relationships with key strategic support and advisory groups regionally, nationally and internationally in order to learn from and apply best practice in all aspects of the endowment building process.
Strategic Objective
- Targeted Fund-Raising Strategy
Actions
- Restricted/ Named Funds growth development.
- Unrestricted/ Unnamed Funds growth development.
- Local Challenge Fund initiatives around areas and themes.
- Corporate Community Involvement giving and support initiatives.
- Legacy Giving campaign.
- Friends of the County Fermanagh Community Foundation in the United States of America.
- Income generated by Social Economy project.
- Developing, expanding and consolidating participation in support, exchange and learning networks and linkages from the local to the international level.
