Elizayo Blog

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

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

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...