Consultant · Trainer · Facilitator
Rethinking development cooperation.
For more than 25 years I have worked with organisations in international cooperation — in project design, in the training room and on the podium. And since 2017 in the place where fundraising is being rethought: Bitcoin.
Vienna · German & English · On site and online
Upcoming
Talks and events
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17 & 19November 2026
Webinar · online · free · in German
Bitcoin verstehen, Spenden gewinnen
Understanding Bitcoin, winning donations: an introduction to Bitcoin fundraising for staff, board members and volunteers of nonprofit organisations, no prior knowledge needed. Two dates with identical content, places are limited.
No public events are scheduled at the moment. For talks, training or facilitation, get in touch.
What I do
Development consulting
Design projects, prove impact
For NGOs, public donors and foundations — from the first project idea to the impact report.
- Project cycle management and logframe
- Impact measurement and evaluation
- Funding strategies and guidelines
- Funding proposals and reporting
- Programme support and coaching
Training
Knowledge that survives Monday morning
Tailored in-house training, from five participants, one to two days.
- "Development cooperation 2.0: decolonial, effective, resilient"
- Planning and running projects that work
- Logical framework & PCM
- Storytelling and flipchart design
Facilitation & keynotes
On the panel and on stage
In German and English, drawing on Art of Hosting methods.
- Panel discussions and press conferences
- Planning workshops and networking events
- Keynotes on development policy and impact
- Keynotes on Bitcoin in fundraising
Bitcoin fundraising
The funding source almost nobody uses
Together with 21NPO I guide non-profits from the potential analysis to a running campaign.
- Potential analysis and strategy
- Wallets, custody and the donation process
- Communication and campaign
Visit 21NPO
About me
Practitioner, communicator and connector
I come from practice. For more than 25 years I have worked in development cooperation, with project experience in Palestine, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. I teach, write and speak about what works in this field — and about what the sector prefers to talk its way around.
For some years now a second question has occupied me: what can Bitcoin change? In fundraising for non-profits and for people in the Global South who have no reliable access to functioning money and financial systems.
I like the subjects that make people frown first — and look closer later.
- Teaching
- MODUL University Vienna
- Danube University Krems
- University of Innsbruck
- University of Vienna — International Development
- TU Wien
- Paris Lodron University Salzburg
- Books
- "Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Umbruch", 3rd edition, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt
- "Gutes Geld für gute Zwecke — wie NPOs mit Bitcoin neue Spender gewinnen", APRYCOT Media, forthcoming 2027
- Bitcoin
- Fundraising practice since 2017
- Speaking
- Former president, Toastmasters Rhetorik Club Wien
- Languages
- German, English
Media
In public
Commentary, interviews and background conversations on development policy, impact and Bitcoin. Most pieces are in German.
Contact
Let's talk
Tell me briefly what it is about — I reply within two working days.
Friedbert Ottacher
Seitenstettengasse 5/37
1010 Vienna, Austria