How Scholarships Work to Provide Positive Impact for the World's Poor
Tonight, over 1 billion people will go to bed hungry—and the number is growing.
Imagine that you work for a nonprofit in a developing nation helping a poor village. The children suffer from malnutrition due to poor harvests and from chronic illness due to contaminated water—making it difficult for them to attend and excel in school. This lack of education traps the community in a continuing cycle of poverty.
Imagine you don’t have the up-to-date information you need to run a project to help the children. You would love to receive training, but can't afford the fees.
This scenario is typical for thousands of nonprofit workers around the world. Men and women from Algeria to Zimbabwe are eager to know how to work more effectively with communities and how to make their successes long-lasting.
The Center works to collect best practices in project design and implementation—and make this information available to nonprofit staff worldwide. Our website houses freely accessible field tools, and we offer online courses in the latest techniques in development.
To date, nonprofit staff from over 70 different countries have participated in our online courses that teach how to design a project, how to run it, and how to make project successes long-lasting.
There is a nominal course fee, but many potential students simply can’t afford it. People from 120 countries have enquired about scholarships; we hope through scholarship funds to be able to include them in the online training too.
These online courses really are online field courses. Over 12 weeks, each student develops a real project with a real community. We give students the information and the tools they need to do this.
Each week, student projects are reviewed by CSDi staff who make suggestions to keep the project on track for sustainability. Example projects include:
Income generation, clean water, education, sanitation, gender equity, migration, vocational training, chronic diarrhea and malnutrition in small children, roads to villages, marginalization, shelter, food shortages, illiteracy, environmental degradation, drought, irrigation for agriculture, overpopulation, and challenges linked to climate change.
The Scholarship:
Consider a donation of any size toward a $100.00 scholarship. These international workers learn how to help community members end suffering, rise out of the cycle of poverty, and lead healthy, productive, prosperous lives. Read about the nuts and bolts of scholarships.
For example, your donation can provide scholarship funds for our most important foundation course:
OL 101. From the Ground Up: Designing Community-Centered Projects with Sustainable Solutions
Gain an insight into contemporary methods of developing community-centered, impact-oriented projects. You will leave the course with practical field tools and develop a range of skills: needs assessments, project design, community workshops, and discovering evidence-based project activities. The course is designed to be used as a vehicle for you to develop a real project, in real time, during the course.
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Online Students from 70 countries
Australia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia , France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Serbia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago W.I., Turkey, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Center.
202-657-4760 Washington, DC
909-532-5135 Los Angeles
