Nonprofit leaders are chosen not just for charm or smarts, but even more so, for upholding the organization’s Vision, Mission, Goals and Strategies (VMGS) and core values. To drag the organization outside of these guiding parameters can be one of the worst transgressions a CEO/Executive Director can commit.
Category: Operations
NGO operations always aim for the “lean and mean” and are often characterized by multi-tasking among staff, who are commonly undercompensated compared to their public- and private-sector counterparts. Without an altruistic mindset, nonprofit staff can easily get burned out and may move on to higher-paying jobs.
Hong Kong
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Sinicizing the NGO Workforce in Hong Kong
The city once lauded for its embrace of diversity and cosmopolitanism, even branded by its first Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa as “Asia’s World City”, has been slowly but palpably easing out non-Chinese professionals from the NGO sector. This Sinicization process among nonprofits began after the end of the 2019…
Operations
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Corporatizing Nonprofits: A Caveat
Balancing between the need for corporate efficiency in NGO operations and preserving its humane culture (its “soul”, as some would have it) can be tricky. One does not preclude the other, but too much of either can undermine a nonprofit’s strategic goals.