The Citizen Base Initiative, a creative resourcing programme, has created the Citizen Base Award - an international competition which provides seed capital to NGOs for innovation in local resource mobilisation. The award aims to support local resource mobilisation as an alternative to international fundraising. This is an international award that has already been hosted in Brazil, Thailand, Bangladesh and India. It is currently running in Argentina. CBI invites South African NGOs to submit a locally focused resource mobilisation strategy.