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Enhancing Accountability: Using Your Strategic Plan to Build Trust and Measure Progress
A grassroots NPO in KZN is currently struggling. The board is unsure if progress is being made and are demanding reports. The staff feel over-monitored and unable to focus on the actual work in the [...]
Improving Resource Allocation: Using Your Strategic Plan to Focus What Really Matters
A real-life challenge An NPO in the Mpumalanga has passionate staff and strong community trust. But every year, budgets feel tighter and burnout increases. Staff are busy — but not always effective. When asked why, [...]
Strategic Plans – and how to create one that actually helps your NPO
A familiar NPO story A small community-based organisation in Khayelitsha started with huge heart: supporting vulnerable children after school. Over time, opportunities came knocking. Food parcels, holiday programmes, youth skills training and even a donor [...]
Closing Organisational Loops for a Strong New Year
Every NPO leader knows the invisible weight of unfinished work: lingering proposals, vague project scopes, unanswered donor emails, pending HR issues, or that monitoring system you meant to fix in March. These “open loops” don’t [...]
Maintaining Work–Life Balance — Leading Without Losing Yourself
In the world of Not for Profit work, passion and purpose often drive leaders to give endlessly of themselves — sometimes at great personal cost. The needs never stop, and it’s easy to believe that [...]
Emotional Regulation — Leading with Calm and Clarity
If self-awareness is about knowing your emotions, emotional regulation is about managing them well — especially under stress. For NPO leaders dealing with staff burnout, funding pressure, and human complexity, this skill is what turns [...]
Self-Awareness — The Starting Point of Strong Leadership
In the fast-paced, emotionally charged environment of a Not for Profit organisation, self-awareness is a leader’s anchor. It’s the ability to understand your emotions, motivations, and reactions — and to recognise how these impact others. [...]
Future-proofing your NPO
Many NPOs are so lean that the loss of one staff member can cause major disruption. Future-proofing means putting structures in place so that institutional knowledge, skills, and relationships don’t sit with only one person. [...]