Introduction to NGO Management

Name: Introduction to NGO Management
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NGO’s comprise of experts in particular fields

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Last updated 9/2019

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What you'll learn

Explain the Advent of NGOs
Describe the Objectives of NGOs
Explain the Classification of NGOs
Explain the Management Structures in NGOs
Explain the Need of Core Principles for NGO Management
Describe Role of Public Relations in NGO Management
Describe Ethics and Professionalism in NGO Management
Explain the Sources of NGO Funding
Explain Measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI)
List Tips for Effective NGO Management

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 1h 10m total length

Introduction4:29
Explore NGO management fundamentals, including objectives, classifications, structures, core principles, ethics and professionalism, public relations, funding sources, and measuring social return on investment to drive effective nonprofit leadership.
Explain the Advent of NGOs10:04
Explore the advent of NGOs as mediators between government and people, watchdogs of programs, and advocates for urban youth welfare amid privatization and policy delivery challenges.
Describe the Objectives of NGOs3:56
Describe how NGOs pursue global justice, social justice, and equity by promoting equitable growth and non-discriminatory development for marginalized communities amid neoliberal globalization.
Explain the Classification of NGOs2:09
Classify NGOs into advocacy-based and volunteer-based types. Show how advocacy-based NGOs influence policy and public discourse toward social justice and public welfare, while volunteer-based NGOs emphasize grassroots, ground-level action.
Explain the Management Structures in NGOs2:24
Explain how NGOs implement formal management structures with a board of directors and executive members, financial controls, to ensure accountability, regulatory compliance, auditing, and donor confidence via foreign funds oversight.
Explain the Need of Core Principles for NGO Management1:17
Explain the need for core principles in NGO management, defining objectives and a charter of what to do and what not to do, and staying true amid uncertainty.
Describe Role of Public Relations in NGO Management3:38
Highlight how public relations drives funding and volunteer recruitment for NGOs by communicating achievements to donors, the public, and beneficiaries, and by managing media and outreach.
Describe Ethics and Professionalism in NGO Management6:01
Explain the need for ethics and professionalism within NGOs, emphasizing internal codes of conduct, accountability, transparency, and customized grants and proposals for donors and government, with social return on investment.
Explain the Sources of NGO Funding6:58
Explore the sources of NGO funding, including foundation funds, government funds, and running campaigns, plus capital funding and planned giving, with strategies for evaluation and accountability.
Explain Measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI)24:38
Learn how to measure social return on investment (sroi) for NGOs, ensure transparency through audits and governance, and navigate donor funding and external challenges.
List Tips for Effective NGO Management4:53
Maintain a head count registry and record beneficiary expenditures, while conducting third-party and donor audits to ensure transparency, accountability, and strong NGO governance amid funding and regulatory challenges.

Requirements

No prior knowledge is required

Description

The decades starting with the 1990s witnessed the proliferation of a new kind of sector among the various agencies and governmental departments engaged in public service. This sector was the Non-Profit or the Non-Governmental Organizations or the NGO, that mushroomed all over the world to fill the gap between the governmental agencies and the public.

The rise of the NGO’s coincided with the awareness among governmental and multilateral bodies like the United Nations that the problems of the 21st century were too complex and too diverse for the government to handle them alone. Hence, there was a need for an intermediary, which would be focused on a specific aspect of the gamut of issues and hence would be able to concentrate its energies solely on the issue rather than being general like the government.

The point here is that the NGO’s comprise of experts in particular fields and hence, they can devote their expertise and energies to solve the intractable problems, which the government cannot because of the red tape as well as the fact that many government officials are administrators first, and experts next. This was the reason for the NGO’s attaining a prominent place in the pantheon of agencies that were tasked with solving the problems of the world.

The intention behind the creation of the NGOs was that in places where the government was either doing a bad job of service delivery or the government could not reach for whatever reason, the NGOs could step in and act as the medium between the official sector or the governmental sector and the people.

The term Non-Governmental Organizations was coined to describe these entities.

Further, the fact that the increasing complexity and multiplicity of problems that confronted the world meant there was a need for a quasi-official entity to step in and help both government and society.

Who this course is for:

NGO Management
Social Activists
NGO Staff
Charitable organizations
Charitable Trusts