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What’s Your Backup Plan?
We’re talking about resilience in October. In my last blog, I mentioned that our family has a grab-and-go folder with all our important info in it. However, does your NPO have a grab-and-go folder for [...]
Leadership in NPO Retrenchments: Balancing Compassion and Clarity
Few challenges test leadership in non-profit organisations as deeply as retrenchments. Unlike the corporate world, where financial logic often dominates, NPOs must weigh financial survival against their mission and the human impact on dedicated staff. [...]
The Hard Role of Leadership in NPOs
Leadership in non-profit organisations (NPOs) is not for the faint-hearted. Unlike businesses that can pivot strategies based on profit margins, NPOs are deeply tied to their missions, communities, and often, to “the way things have [...]
The Power of Decisive Leadership
Non-profit organisations often operate in a landscape of uncertainty—funding shifts, evolving community needs, and external crises can unsettle even the most stable teams. In these moments, leadership is tested not just by what decisions are [...]
Money that works while you do other things
We’d all like our money to work for us while we do other things. In finance terms, this is known as “passive income”. We chatted with some of our EM Solutions team to ask how [...]
Asset-Based Income for NPOs
Many NPOs advocate asset-based community development for the communities in which they work, but sometimes don’t realise that they themselves can use their own assets to create income streams for the organisation. We asked EM [...]
Leveraging Intellectual Assets
NPOs generate a huge amount of intellectual property – research, learning, training material, ways of working and more. How do you turn your intellectual property into an asset that brings in much-needed income to support [...]
Let’s Talk About Core Funding
In Michelle’s recent blog, she spoke about key sources of unrestricted income and the ultimate ‘unicorn’ donation – unallocated funding. Unallocated funding is not pinned to any one programme or expense. Unallocated funding can be [...]