FIND FUNDING
Your partners in securing funding
Today’s funding landscape is fuelled by constant change, intense competition and an ever-increasing time and compliance demand on NGOs. It’s hard to keep up.
But great impact needs proper funding.
We partner with high-impact NGO providing hands-on, low-cost support to attract more suitable funding.
The funding partnership enhances our partner’s funding strategy through our expertise, boosts donors engagement through our network and grows the funding pipeline through proposal writing service. We also provide up-to-date, tailored donor intelligence to our partners.
Together, we build strong, well-managed non-profit organisations that do good, better!
A Clear
Funding
Model
We work together to evalutate and update your funding model and strategy, matching the current funding landscape with your impact and ambitions. Picking a working, practical and clear funding model is liberating and provides clarity to the whole organisation and network.
New Donor &
Opportunity
Identification
Writing
Funding
Proposals
Funding Strategy
Implementation
& Training
After identifying relevant funding opportunities, our specialized, experienced proposalwriters deliver high-quality, timely proposals based on your methodology and key information, or support you during the proposal process.
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
A good strategy flows from your purpose.
Updated for today’s challenges and opportunities, we develop strategies jointly with our partners to
- Respond to new challenges or opportunities
- Operate in new communities or on new issues
- Update the whole organisation’s strategy
Together, we translate ambition and needs for impact into a clear, coherent and quantifiable strategy. For this, we draw on our experience working with over 500 non-profits since 2011 as well as our peer-benchmarking database.
Often we bring service users, beneficiaries, local implementers, donors and investors into the process, ensuring that the strategy is speaking to the market, not just the internal audience.
Working with our partners in a highly participatory, yet structured manner, we set priorities, facilitate effective meetings and consultations, resolve roadblocks and inform draft strategies.
Contact us if you would like an initial conversation on how to build a better strategy for your organisation.
Funding Strategy
A sustainable funding strategy keeps pace and supports your impact and growth ambitions. It should not dictate them.
We work with our partners’ staff, board members and network to develop and execute a funding strategy.
We add value and contribute to the process through our rigorous analysis, using our experience from working with over 500 non-profits globally and often with active input from donors, philanthropic partners and impact investors from our network.
We also learn from peer organisations and over 500 current and past MzN Partners about what really works (and what does not) to help
1
Create a
clear plan:
We help translate impact and growth ambitions into a clear funding plan - We review and add value to the strategy, advising our partners on the range of funding options available and setting goals that add clarity to our partners entire organisation.
2
Co-develop an implementation plan:
We work with our partners to put the new approaches into practice and constantly improve, ensuring the organisation has the tools, processes, and support needed to achieve sustainable results.
3
Optimise &
Collaborate:
Through our partnership model we continually optimise the plan, provide hands-on support, reaching into our network of foundations, philanthropists and impact investors and provide training (free of charge).
PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
Good proposals are the key building block to winning funds. Our depth of knowledge and decades of experienc with donor’s formal policies and informal preferences allow us to help write winning proposals.
Our institutional funding experts assist our clients worldwide to form consortia, evelop funding strategies, pre-position themselves, and write convincing proposals.
Our expertise includes Payment by Results contracting, project risk identification, and the development of new project processes and procedures to ensure that your organisation is properly represented in the proposal.
Our proposal writing experts write, review and improve draft concept notes and proposals to maximise their chances of success. As donor experts, we add our expertise to a thematically wide variety of proposals. We work remotely or on site, as required.
We have particular expertise with respect to:
- European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (EC/ECHO)
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- USAID
- Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit/ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und
Entwicklung (GIZ/BMZ) - The World Bank
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- Foundations
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE SUPPORT
We help improve organisational health and performance by enhancing structures, processes, and ways of working, including culture change. Working in participatory ways with staff, board members and other stakeholders we help our partners to deliver programs and opportunities more efficiently and effectively.
But simply restructuring to cut out roadblocks is not usually enough. We place a particular focus on aligning the strategy and sector demands to the organisational design. Often this means building an organisation that is truly able to support locally led-development, supported by critical back-office functions.
We are known for a very participatory approach. We take the time to listen, truly understand, and only then suggest holistic strategies, working closely with our partners to promote transparency, accountability and ownership.
In doing so, we combine our technical support, training and coaching skills and organisational strengthening strategies to help build better organisations. In most projects, we combine the advantages of digital tools with the proven impact of face-to-face interaction. Since early 2023, AI is a central part of our work to build better processes.
Since 2011 we partnered with over 500 non-profit organisations globally. Our partners, work on a large range of thematic issues, from advocacy, humanitarian, development, livelihoods, health focus as well as peace, arts and education.
Contact us if you like an initial conversation how to improve your organisation’s health and performance.
AI AGENTS FOR NGOS
Built for Impact. Powered by Intelligence.
Whether you are a small grassroots enterprise or a global social business, our AI Agent will help you:
- Write better pitches faster
- Track, analyse, and report impact data effortlessly
- Automate tasks like meeting summaries, call notes, and team reminders
- Get real-time insights on fundraising opportunities
Designed by impact experts
We are impact investing professionals who have spent years working with impact entrepreneurs, founders, investors and social enterprises. This is your co-pilot finally.
Who’s behind it?
The AI Agent is developed by Human Planet, a leading advisory firm blending innovation, capital, and technology to help mission-driven organizations scale their impact.
The Smartest Assistant Your Company Will Ever Have
A tailored AI assistant designed to help social enterprises write proposals, manage impact reporting, analyse data, and automate day-to-day admin in seconds.
Join the waitlist
Be first to test it. Early adopters get:
- Priority access & onboarding
- Co-design input on new features
- Exclusive launch discount