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We are looking for a dynamic, mission-driven rockstar to join our lean team. As a NPO CEO Chief Everything Officer, you will be expected to build the plane while flying it

NGO sectors across the world provide services that the government sectors often fail to provide, and the NGO sector of South Africa is no exception.  The Non-profit sector in SA played a pivotal role in addressing societal challenges, advocating for meaningful causes, and providing crucial services to communities in need prior to democracy. Post 1994 many Non-Profits argued they can provide better, more efficient, and cost-effective services than government departments, becau

The role of NGO’s in world and country politics has always been vibrant and widespread and has grown in importance since the 1990’s.

Much has been said about the inability of Non-Profits to retain staff. What we don’t often refer to are those staff that do stick it out for

Many Non Proifts quite often have protectionist visioning and are not prepared to make tough decisions when it comes to strategy.

When this incredible individual becomes and remains the pivot of the organisation, or becomes the person who has a stranglehold on organisational development and maturity, you are left with Non Profit founder syndrome.

The term “Social” in the Non-Profit field is the prefix for a plethora of different concepts - Social Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, Social Solutions, Social Sector, Social Value, Social Change, Social Problems, Social Responsible Business, Social Investments and Social Innovation etc. (To a certain extent the wide use of the term “Social” can be linked to the application of Corporate and business practices and applications to the Non-Profit field.) Social Innovatio

We need to ensure that our services are relevant, and determine whether interventions should bestrengthened or discarded.

[repost of 2015 post]I have written about the frustration of fundraising for nonprofit, community based organisations in South Africa...

Competent and passionate leadership has always been considered vital in every civil society organisation. However who is the best person to lead an organisation is not always so easy. Due to lack of funding and the subsequent lack of supportive management structures, leaders in the civil society field are quite often a person who is appointed on the basis of balance of various prospects. The leaders are expected to be inter alia financial managers, fundraisers, high level s

Around 10 000 New NPO's are registered annually in SA. Why?

Leadership is one of the most talked about, but least understood concepts in the Non-Profit field.

Are NPO losing their visions/mission for a TPA

NPO’s and civil society organisation by nature inhabit a world of relationships. Whether between NPOs and beneficiaries, local NPOs and their partners, NPOs and donors, governments, the private sector, relationships are foundational to everything the sector does. However the term ‘partnership’ has been diminished by misuse and is applied to a range of relationships and at this stage is quite often a devalued term. In addition Network’ and ‘networking’ have become something o

When I was at university (some 35 years back) I had to write a paper on the differences between a For-profit and Not-for-Profit...

Risk is inherent to the life in general and in the NPO field in particular. In the NPO field risks cannot be avoided and are part of our...

Social Work in South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, is a reflection of the broader political landscape of our Country. The fact that...

We have been working with around 350 Non-Profit organisations through various activities – training, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, due diligence, fundraising etc - in the past four years. In all my years in the Non-Profit field I have always fiercely believed that the organisations exists for the purpose of rendering services to the focus client group that their vision and mission advocates. I believe that the needs of the clients come first and that staffing

The Practice of providing Civil Society Organizations Leaders the opportunity to step away from their organizations, on a sabbatical period is also known as creative disruption. On the part of the leader the sense of disruption can spark creativity, new perspectives on leadership, job longevity, greater confidence, and better relationships with staff, board and community as well as a new vision.