NGO organizational assessment diagnosis
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Expertise Matters!
Nathan Magnuson
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
One day the president of the other NGO expressed a need for a new accountant and I casually suggested his consider the accountant from the first NGO. I didn’t want to be like the woman in the first NGO: a friendly and enthusiastic person who couldn’t be taken seriously as a professional.
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How Authorities Assess Asylum Claims
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 31, 2023
This is being carried out at both the government authority and NGO levels. Over the past few years, there has been a rising trend of generating copious amounts of data on refugees worldwide. “The increasing amount of data and use of various data in asylum cases can make decision-making processes opaque for asylum seekers.
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In 100 Words: Bitter or Better?
QAspire
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
He runs a successful NGO and speaks across the globe on coping with life’s challenges. After struggling initially as a depressed kid who contemplated suicide, he was transformed when his mother showed him an inspiring article about a man who was also dealing with a severe disability. Which one would you choose? ”. - – - – -.
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065: Influence 3.0: Upgrade from Leadership to Impact
Engaging Leader
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: Management Influence 2.0: Leadership Influence 3.0:
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What would Vince Lombardi do?
CO2
JUNE 7, 2011
When we compare what it takes to lead a military unit, a football team, an NGO, or a business, we sometimes forget that the rules are different. NGO workers know that if they don’t solve an important issue, people will suffer.
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2 Big Opportunities for Incredible Change!
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
The vision for Ethical Coach is to support 64,000 NGO, non-profit and children’s charity leaders each year in accessing coaching. Ethical Coach will host 400 NGO leaders in workshops and deliver coaching skills through our high level international volunteer coaches. The first is the Ethical Coach program.
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Be Zen for Focus
CEO Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
An outstanding book about a marine who started an NGO in one of the worst slums in Africa. This book is a bit like " Its all about Leadership " that I blogged about on the Canrock Ventures blog. And as leisure reading, I read " It Happened on the way to War ". It is a page turner.
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140 Does Change Happen to You or with You?
CO2
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
When you build a successful company, department, NGO, or team, you build upon successes. What can Darwin teach you about organizational life? It’s tricky to reproduce success, however, because many decisions were both context- and time-bound.
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Leading For Good
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 26, 2014
We were by far the first environmental NGO to move. Just months after he joined the Conservancy in 2008, the financial crisis hit. Mark had been through downturns on Wall Street and he applied all that he had learned at TNC. “We We became a highly prioritized, more focused, leaner organization. Then we grew.
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How Big Data Can Support More Precise Conservation
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 7, 2019
“If you are a conservation NGO or government agency conducting outreach, microtargeting can dramatically increase your impact or cut your outreach budget,” the authors say. When the model was tested, it revealed that those landowners identified as being good targets were indeed more likely to support the project.
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50 Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Netflix’s Bright
Joseph Lalonde
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
You will be amazed at what your team can do: Tikka battled against an evil Elf, Tien (Veronica Ngo), who was hell-bent on raising the Dark Lord. No amount of affirmation from others will make you a better leader. Know who you are as a leader. Stand firm in your belief of who you are. During their battle, Nick was tossed into a giant pit.
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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra
QAspire
AUGUST 22, 2010
Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO that provides mid day meals to about 1.2 Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. 600 (or ~$13).
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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities
HR Digest
OCTOBER 21, 2023
Finding a local NGO or community that you want to work with is the first step to this team-building activity. Volunteer Together Duration : Half-day to full-day Number of Participants : 5-20 Format : In-person Improving teamwork and collaboration while giving back to the community? What’s not to like?
5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world.
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Change Your Social Context, Change Your Life
CO2
OCTOBER 24, 2013
We received a lot of press, and I was frequently asked to join bank, for profit, and NGO boards. My business grew at over 50% a year every year for 12 straight years and became one of the 5,000 largest employers in the United States. In the world of entrepreneurs, I had rock-star status. Today, rather than being a rock star, I coach them.
Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management
Mills Scofield
APRIL 15, 2013
In Ecuador, we’ve developed very strict rules and very high standards for our team and our suppliers, working against the tendency of people to see us as just another NGO that is “here to help” (aka doesn’t take our work seriously).
Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2013
They need to come to grips with the unintended consequences of starving NGOs of the resources needed to invest in leadership, management, program evaluation, and integrated systems. And NGO leaders need to stop playing the low-overhead-is-good game and lead the charge for adequate general operating support.
The Buzz on Green Business in China
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues.
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15 The Buzz on Green Business in China
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. It's another thing to see the green focus up close.
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How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
As a recent report on the subject from the NGO Ceres said, “According to the IEA, more than two-thirds of the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels will be unusable prior to 2050 if necessary carbon regulations are enacted [emphasis added].”. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org The Stick: Regulation .
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The Era of Corporate Silence on Climate Policy Is Ending
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2013
The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.
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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2010
She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.
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287 To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2017
Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. Having a bird’s eye view (or in this case, a sidekick’s view) gives you the advantage of seeing roadblocks or challenges, while putting team members in the superhero role makes them agents to solve their own problems.
To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2010
If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world.
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Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year. The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission.
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Success in Rio? That's For Us to Decide
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 1, 2012
Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. The Cold War had just ended, and BRICS were used to build houses, not the world's most dynamic economies.
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How Quick Wins Can Become Stretch Goals
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2012
As part of an effort to increase education in Southern Sudan, a team of villagers with help from an NGO took on the challenge of increasing school attendance by 30% in 100 days.The villagers were so motivated to achieve this goal, that they eventually made their own bricks to construct a new building.
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Morning Advantage: A Supply Chain Solution to an Age-Old Problem
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2013
When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites. More goods get where they need to go and micro sellers remain in business, ready to resume normal operations when the flood is over and the NGOs fold up their tents.
The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2014
The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. However, now the risk we’re talking about is financial, which, along with the enormous economic upside of taking action, may finally get the investment community moving.
“Office Housework” Gets in Women’s Way
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2015
When Patria, a program leader in an NGO, was asked by her director to help a colleague whose team was having trouble managing its workload, she agreed. Ascertain the cost of your contribution. Helping is not a free good. Not only does it take time away from your day job but it can exact a toll on your health and family.
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8 Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Raj Shah – President, The Rockefeller Foundation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Former Chief Economist – Gates Foundation.
Change the World Without Losing Yourself
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO.
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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Only when BRAC, a Bangladesh NGO, recruited and deployed thousands of paid workers to teach villagers how to make it out of ingredients in even the humblest of homes did adoption take off, in the early 1980s. A team of U.S.
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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2011
A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. In a nonprofit a clear and effective strategy facilitates attraction of funds and provides the ability to take smart action. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage. It provides consistency in decision making over both time and geography.
The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 4, 2017
HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. Whelan : We’ve seen a sea change in the last 10 years around company and NGO engagement — it’s far more cooperative. How can these relationships be most fruitful? The result will be innovation.
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8 A Business Model for Bangladesh
Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2013
Such an intermediary organization (in this case probably an NGO) would collect the extra 3.3%, build relationships with buyers and sellers and would use the trust of its relationships to have the confidence to certify that clothing was produced according to proper standards.
How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2018
The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments.
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12 How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.
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14 Is VW’s Fraud the End of Large-Scale Corporate Deception?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be? That’s why the real story here revolves less around the deceit than its discovery.
The Obligatory Pre-Davos Post!
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2011
Continues Parag: The best place to view what model of diplomacy lies before us in the New Middle Ages is the Swiss enclave of Davos, where each January the planet's most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, NGO heads, university presidents, celebrities and artists flock for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
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11 How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 4, 2016
feridun akgüngör. You probably know the feeling all too well: You arrive at the office with a clear plan for the day and then, in what feels like just a moment, you find yourself on your way back home. Nine or 10 hours have passed but you’ve accomplished only a few of your priorities.
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8 Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 30, 2012
Twenty years ago, a citizen might not know the name of a Fortune 500 CEO or NGO director, but they knew the reputation of the institution—and made an assumption that the person chosen to lead it must personify its good qualities. The reflected glory of their institutions.
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Meet the Tech Companies Creating Opportunity in Africa
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2016
FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine. I pull up to the house and my son flies out of the car to inspect the box or two on our front stairs. Santa only delivers once a year, but Amazon leaves something on our door about every other day.
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