Successful start of our third training on following topic: Finances and Fundraising for Social Enterprises - Day 1
Today on Monday 8th November, we held our first workshop from the third training for social entrepreneurship. In previous training, we already discussed how to start a social enterprise. Topic that will be covered in our third training is Finances and Fundraising for Social Enterprises. At first, like with our previous training and workshops, we started with a short introduction from our presenters and hosts about the plan and scheduled activities for the next few days. We all know that having good skills in finances and fundraising is the key to a successful social enterprise, and we are excited and willing to work together on improving our skills. But before jumping into the learning process, we had to stop for a minute to remind ourselves about the past activities that we did after our last training. Students from Macedonia, Lithuania, and Croatia worked hard for upgrading their virtual companies. Each school presented its student's accomplishments, we can tell that every student worked hard on improving their virtual companies, and the results were outstanding. The progress that we made shows how much we're ready to learn and work and enhance our society. Later on, we had a short practice, we had to manage our expenses with 1000 euros income per month. It was an interesting exercise that helped us start with our first workshop. We also watched some educational videos, on how to make a good project budget. As the ending of our first day was coming closer, we got to show a little bit from what we learned with a game that we played. It was an interesting way of learning how hard sometimes managing the finances could be, followed by a short discussion about our opinions on the game afterwards.
The first day went great, and we got to learn some handy abilities and techniques that we will be expanding and developing through our third training. All of us are truly happy and grateful that we got to learn some new interesting skills and give our opinions on the various discussion and topics.
For those who are interested here is the link from the video and from the game:
Written by Viktorija Popovska
