...How to Start an NGO or Non-Profit in Ghana 1 HOW TO START AN NGO IN GHANA Starting and managing an NGO in Ghana, or anywhere, can test the most saintly of spirits. Alright, perhaps we’re exaggerating a little. But what we’re trying to say is that setting up an NGO in Ghana (or Africa) is NOT EASY. We’ll make setting up an NGO or non-profit in Ghana a little easier over the next five steps. (Head over to G-lish.org because we’ll give you glimpses into our own NGO struggles and achievements straight from the NGO diaries from time to time.) This document covers five main steps essential to setting up an NGO in Ghana. The first two are generic steps for anywhere in the world. The final three steps are for Ghana, specifically. Feel free to share this document with anyone who may be starting their own NGO anywhere. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Develop Your Vision and Mission Develop Goals and Objectives Set up a Board of Directors Draft a Constitution Register the Organization in Ghana 1. Develop Your Vision and Mission You need a compelling vision and genuine commitment to that vision for the long-term. If you do things right you will go MaD (making a difference) in a way that fully benefits your target communities. Vision and Mission will explain your organization’s existence and focus its activities. And, this will “sell” your NGO to the world. Writing a vision and mission is like crafting an elevator pitch: make it short, clear and a little intriguing. But let’s look at the difference...
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...Baptist Church is a religious non-profit established in Merced, California. Friendship is experiencing a decline in organizational membership and effective ministry opportunities Organizational History: Friendship Baptist Church Friendship Baptist Church, founded in 1976, by a small contingency of disgruntled members of a local church. The group separated from the offending church and elected their first leader. A demographic profile of the group is African American (five women and four men), median to poverty level income and vocational classification and little or no formal education. The demographic numbers as to population of target location show a large segment of Hispanic and Asian...
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...Mystic Monk Coffee 1. What is the mission of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming? What is his vision for the monastery? What is his vision for Mystic Monk Coffee? Are the two visions compatible? The mission for the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming is to grow his brotherhood larger by purchasing a bigger ranch that accommodates more monks, a Gothic church, and a convent for the Carmelite nuns and a retreat center for lay visitors. The vision is to acquire the 496-acre parcel of land for $8.9 million through the use of donations and the profits made from the Mystic Monk Coffee operations. Mystic Monk Coffee is a non-profit organization that has created a vision to roast high-grade whole-bean, fair trade organic Arabica beans that target the segment of the U.S. Catholic population who drink coffee and wish to support the monastery’s mission. These visions are compatible due to the increase of social awareness and the ease of accessibility the monks have to roast coffee for a profit. 2. Does it appear that Father Daniel Mary has set definite objectives and performance targets for achieving his vision? If so, what are they? I would not say that Father Daniel Mary has set performance targets other than he understands what his current production capacity is. 3. What is Father Prior’s strategy for achieving his vision? What competitive advantage might Mystic Monk Coffee’s strategy produce? The Mystic Monk website is fully operational and generating sales with a distinct brand...
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...Comparative Summary Of Financial Environment Liliana Varela HCS/577 April 2, 2012 Destiny Chen Health care financial environments exit in three types of organizations. These organizations are: a) Not-for-Profit, b) For-Profit, and C) government. A non- profit organization’s main purpose is to perform a mission rather than focusing on making a profit. The mission aims at helping the people in the community. One non –profit organization is the World Vision foundation. The World Vision foundation’s main goal is to provide children around the world with food, shelter, medicine, and education. “Dr. Bob Pierce began World Vision to help children orphaned in the Korean War. To provide long-term, ongoing care for children in crisis, World Vision developed its first child sponsorship program in Korea in 1953” (World Vision web site). The financial structure of this particular non –profit organization consist of grants, private citizens donations, and donations from other corporations. It also receives financial help from government agencies. For example, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This agency provides financial aid to the World Vision organization. The financial policies of this organization directly explain how each dollar is contributing to the realization of a project (education, food, clothing, medicine, etc.). The financial support is divided into three parts: a) 85% of the total revenue goes directly to programs, b)...
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...10 million solar light and power products in 62 countries. d.light’s dedication is to provide the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for developing world, with a goal of reaching 100 million individuals by 2020 ("About Us," n.d.). For Profit or Non- Profit? “d.light is dedicated to providing distributed solar energy solutions for households and small businesses that transform the way people all over the world use and pay for energy ("About Us," n.d.).” The mission of d.light is mainly focusing on providing distributed solar energy to households and small businesses. Unlike missions of other organizations, d.light does not mention that one of its mission, nor its goal and vision, is to provide a return for its stakeholders. Therefore, based on what d.light is doing, it is reasonable to turn d.light into a non-profit organization. However, before making decision on which module to apply on d.light, the organization must understand the difference between for profit and non-profit organization. One of the largest differences is source of capital. The current situation for d.light is shortage on high liquidity assets, in other words, cash. A for profit company receives its capital from investors who often look for short term return, but it hardly fits d.light’s identity as a social enterprise. In addition, there are not many investors willing to invest a large...
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...INTRODUCTION A vision is a dream, it is what the firm or organization believes are the right conditions for its stakeholders for instance customers, employees and management. For example in the case of Annie Oakley’s case its vision can be: to inspire passion and spirit of ANNIE’S BABIES to the defense market with high quality and distinctive guns. A mission describes what the organization is going to do and the reasons for doing it. It always inspires people to action in order to achieve the desired vision. An example of a mission in the case: to provide the highest quality service to our esteemed customers by operating professionally managed dealerships committed to be the leader in the markets that they serve. To provide our employees with the opportunity to receive best compensation and opportunities for advancement within the organization. The role of Vision and mission statements in Annie’s Babies organization: They will help the organization to focus on important matters by helping the members and employees to remember what is important as they go about their daily activities in the organization. They will help other organizations and individuals to have a picture of who your group is and what its aspirations are. People can learn about the organization without having to work hard in order to find out about the organization. This helps in activities such as recruitment, promoting products and customer focus. Vision and mission statements are also very useful in...
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...for Not-For-Profit organisations. I am attempting to bring together a couple of principles which will explain our approach to the Pro Bono Campaign. PRINCIPLE ONE: BRAND IDEALS Ogilvy are proponents of the idea of Brand Ideals. Millward Brown, also part of WPP, have initiated a measurement tool for Brand Ideals which is said to the “the engine of business growth.” A Brand Ideal is defined as “a higher purpose of a brand or an organisation which goes beyond the product or service that they sell. The ideal is the brand’s inspirational reason for being. It explains why the brand exists and the impact it seeks to make in the world. A brand ideal actively aims to improve the quality of people’s lives.” Here is how the concept of brand ideals is applied in the For Profits sector: * Dove believes that the world would be better if women were allowed to feel good about themselves. * Fanta believes that the world would be a better place if we grew up less and played more. * Scrabble believes that the world would be a better place if we loved words more. * Adidas believes that the world would be better place if people went beyond their normal boundaries. * Coca-Cola believes that the world would be a better place if we saw the glass as half full – not half empty. PRINCIPLE TWO: APPLICATION OF BRANDING IN NON-PROFITS Several Universities, including Stanford and Harvard, have investigated the role, or application of, branding in the Not-For-Profit (NFP) sector...
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...This is page left blank The Strategic use of technology within non-profit orgs Page 2 Overview: Undoubtedly, IT or information technology has caused a massive development in all fields of science, society, economy and humanity. The impact of IT on human society is in a way that the world is rapidly changing to an information society. Any progress in different aspects of society and economy or humanity is the results of technology development. Technology is considered to be a key indicator for improving effective communication, and strategic operation within government and non-profit organization. As a student of Public Administration and my concentration and interest to the non-profit organizations, in this paper I want to focus more about e-government in non-profit organization including and strategies that non-profits’ IT leaders need to practice. Non-profit organizations work around the world to accomplish philanthropic missions and provide meaningful services for people in need. The number of non - profit organizations likely to increase each year, according to the Urban Institute; there is a growth among the non-profits based on size and financial impacts. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of non-profits has increased 25 percent; from 1,259,764 million to 1,574,674 million today, which acutely compete with the business and government sectors. (Urban institute reports 2103). Among these organizations not all of them are successful neither all...
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...Deputy Chairman in November 2002.Mr.Brindley de zylva was the CEO of the company and he has appointed as a CEO in April 2003. * LOFC is the only non-bank financial institution to have been granted a license from CBSL to engage in foreign currency business. This enabled LOFC to maintain nonresident foreign currency accounts Resident foreign currency accounts and special foreign investment deposit accounts for their customers. * LOFC is offering savings, Deposits & working capital facilities. The Growth and Diversification have led the company to start the areas such as Auto Finance, ME Finance, Islamic Banking, mobile banking and foreign currency business. * LOFC services are offered through a network of 42 fully fledged branches 10 savings centers strategically located island wide, including a significant presence in the North and the East. * They have several partnerships with business entities such as MAESTRO, IFAD, XPRESS MONEY, COMMERCIAL BANK, MONEY EXCHANGE for over the years. These alliances have helped them to create new possibilities for their customer’s future, ensuring cutting-edge solutions and technologies for customer’s convenience. (Reference: http://www.lankaorix.com/aboutus) Task 1 Vision, Mission,...
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...Challenges of Managing Non-Profit Organizations There are different challenges a non-profit organization face, although I believe that these challenges are also faced by for profit organization at the same similar level. Trust is an issue that both non-profit and for profit organizations encounter at some point in their business, therefore transparency is very important. Transparency warrants organizations to provide clear statements of where their money goes, how it is utilized, and how it is making the organization accomplish their goals. These are not the only factors that are essential to make the stakeholders or anyone interested in the cause to trust the organization. For a non-profit organization trust is a key element to engage volunteers, donors and other business; without trust chances are that the organization might fail to achieve their mission by raising funds. Trust is acquire by performing the goals you have set for your mission and not deviating from it, at least not too far from achieving the organizations goals either for non-profit or for profit organization. It is also important to have a plan (Taylor-Hamm) in case there is a catastrophic event that might jeopardize your organization, it will help you foresee adverse situations and you will be better prepared in case your first plan fails. Performance challenges are faced in the same manner on both types of organizations non-profit and for profit organization. However they might be measured in a different...
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...Strategy defined What is strategy? The Oxford Dictionary describe strategy as A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term goal or overall aim; or the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle; It is derived from the Greek word “stratégia” that means generalship (Oxford dictionary. 2015). A company’s strategy consist of the competitive moves and business approaches that managers are employing to grow the business, attract and please customers, compete successfully , conduct operations and achieve the targeted levels of organizational performance (Hough et al. 2008:4). Strategy is all about how the anticipated goals will be achieved. It works like a recipe where different elements are used in a more or lesser manner to achieve an end result. In an organisation the leader ensures all members are heading in the right direction and completing their goals and objectives. Organisations lacking leadership quickly implode as members scatter in all directions attempting to achieve conflicting goals in a silo-orientated environment. However, this can be overcome if leaders communicate and execute business strategies. A business strategy is a leadership plan that achieves a specific set of goals or objectives such as: * Developing new products or services. * Entering new markets. * Increasing customer loyalty. * Attracting new customers. * Increasing sales. * Decreasing costs. (Baltzan, 2013:16) Leaders also...
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...3.0. How to structure a business dissertation Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Abstract: A summary of the dissertation Table of Contents Introduction: Introduces the study and summaries the state of area prior to the research. This section outlines the problem(s) to be investigated, the aims and objectives of the research and describes the methodologies used. Additionally, an outline of the overall dissertation structure may be included. Literature Review: This accounts the previously written, published and unpublished literature on the selected research topic. The purpose of conducting a review on the existing knowledge and ideas on the topic is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the research area whilst defining a guiding concept for the dissertation. To achieve this, four important steps must be followed: concentrate on the relevant theories; break down the topic and define key terms; examine recent research in the area; and conclude with the research questions that will be resolved in the study. Methodology: This section is designed to give the reader a coherent, clear and precise account of how the study was conducted. The section is composed of number of sub-sections which should include: research philosophy, research approach, research strategy, data collection and any problems encountered in the data gathering process, data reliability, validity and generalizability, and finally, ethical issues and possible limitations with the research. Results: ...
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...Non-Profit Sector in Canada The non-profit sector in Canada is one of the largest in the world, second only to Netherlands. Canada’s non-profit sector employs about 12.8% of its active economic population. Although the non-profit sector is not considered a specific industry, its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be compared to several key industries in Canada. Statistics Canada divides the Canadian non-profit sector into two: the core non-profit sector and the overall non-profit sector. The core non-profit sector excludes hospitals, universities, and colleges. Including hospitals, universities, and colleges, Canada’s non-profit sector contributes in excess of $100 billion or approximately 7% of the economy. It is estimated that core non-profit sector contributes about 4% of the national GDP, when the value of volunteer work is incorporated. Despite these impressive numbers, Canada’s non-profit sector is constantly under strain and faces various issues such as obtaining funding, recruiting volunteers and board members, and staying relevant and accountable in an ever-changing economic climate. Non-profit organizations include cultural institutions, recreational groups, social groups, environmental organizations, human rights groups, and community organizations. Non-profit organizations are viewed favourably by Canadians; 79% of Canadians think non-profit organizations understand the needs of Canadians better than the government. The non-profit sector in Canada will only continue...
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...Changes to the vision and organisational values From: daniel.sommer@me.com To: info@macville.com.au Cc: Bcc: ceo@macville.com.au, zafar.c@warwick.nsw.edu.au, stakeholders@macville.com.au Subject: Mission/Vision review’ Following report will focus on MacVille’s current vision and mission statement. The report is subdivided in 4 sections, such as 1 Existing vision and mission, 2 Current approaches, 3 Revised vision and mission, 4 Organisational values and a summary of meeting notes taken during a meeting with the CEO Patricia Mees and Mr. Zafar C. from 27 Feb 2014. 1. Existing vision and mission Vision: MacVille is looking forward to become a national accepted brand. The company expects to establish and strengthen its position in the hospitality industry and wants to be recognized as a key component in the success of hospitality establishments, both large and small. Mission: MacVille is a high tech company, specialising in the manufacturing of espresso coffee machines. It is our mission to meet the high level of productivity, consistency and sustainability expected of our clients who, in turn, allow us to prosper and pass on our profits to our stakeholders and the various communities in which MacVille operates. 2. Current approaches • Incorporating innovation • Strategic alliances, goals and benefits • Identify the community MacVille serves • To distribute products or services to a specific industry or a set of customers. ...
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...factoring each step of the strategic planning process from a start-up perspective is followed by the authors applying the newly acquired knowledge to broadly create a “mock” foundation. Program Framework within the Nonprofit Organization: How to Create a Successful Nonprofit Harvard Kennedy School’s curriculum for one of their nonprofit classes states that “Strategic Frameworks for Nonprofit Organizations is designed to help nonprofit and NGO leaders use strategic management frameworks to improve their organizations.” (Letts, 2012) Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc. teaches: “Strategic planning is a management tool that can help focus – and periodically refocus – an organization’s vision and priorities. This planning process establishes choices about how best to accomplish the organization’s mission.” (Smith, 2000) Carl Richardson simplifies the urgency of strategic planning by asserting “An organization that is growing and hopes to sustain that growth needs a set of strategies to guide its program development, build a solid financial foundation, and prepare for challenges that lie ahead. In other words, it needs a strategic plan.” (Richardson, 2012) With this exigency, we are focused to answer the following questions: What is strategic planning and how do we correctly apply this program framework to form a successful nonprofit organization? The task of...
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