25 youth workers from Greece, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Romania were trained on how to use fundraising methods and techniques and got guidance on companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, in order to enhance their collaboration with small-medium enterprises (SMEs) from their communities.
The CoOp Fundraising and CSR Training Course took place in Athens, Greece, from 7th to 13th of February 2019, within the CoOp project framework and supported by Erasmus+ Programme.
During the five-day training course, the youth workers learned and developed essential fundraising skills to improve their work in attracting private investments in programs designed to support young people. Also, in the last day of the training course, all the participants were involved in developing project ideas they could pitch to local companies, and they had to actually prepare and stand in mock-up meetings with companies’ representatives (role-played by the CoOp trainers).
