Nonprofits that persist in multitasking and overloading their JDs will end up punishing not only their staff but their organizations as well. Listing KPIs for new hires is an exercise in balancing between priority tasks and human capacity, and is not the same as generating a wish-list of what the CEO wants in an ideal world.
Tag: nonprofits
AI
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Towards A Principled NGO Stand on AI
Nonprofits should not remain nonchalant about AI’s potential and actual harm to the social sectors they have committed to serve. They can take baby-steps towards making a principled stand and lend their collective voice to making AI serve social justice rather than its opposite.
Fundraising
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Quantity vs. Quality in Grant Submissions
Focusing on quantity involves creating templates for generic submissions, which are often concept notes/LOIs that contain a barebones introduction of your nonprofit, impact and project or program that you want funded.
Operations
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Mission Drift Is Leadership Failure
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.
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…
Fundraising
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Fundraising for NGOs
Fundraisers are definitely an added cost, and for proven ones, quite expensive. But having someone deal with the complexities of fundraising allows the NGO leaders and program staff to be more effective in delivering their nonprofit’s core mission.