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Know your donor: National Government Departments

By |May 27th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Getting funding from National Government Departments can be a valuable and often overlooked source of support for NPOs—especially if you're addressing education, youth, health, food security, safety, or social development. All of these Departments offer different opportunities, including subsidies, program funding, capacity-building grants and others. Here’s a practical guide to [...]

Know your Donor – Meet the Individual

By |May 12th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In our last blog on “Know Your Donor”, we’re going to talk about the Individual Donor. When it comes to individual donors, there are several types you can engage, each with different motivations, giving capacities and ways to connect. Here's a quick breakdown to help you understand and tailor your [...]

Know your donor: Corporates

By |May 12th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In our series “Know your Donor”, we’ve covered Multilateral Grantmaking Organisations, Foreign Governments and Foundations. Today we are going to talk about corporations. In the context of NPO (non-profit organisation), giving a "corporate" refers to a for-profit company that donates resources, such as money, goods, or services, to support the [...]

Know your donor: Foundations

By |May 6th, 2025|Tags: , , |

We’re continuing with our deep dive into the different types of donors, where they get their funding from and how they operate. We’ve covered Multilateral Grantmaking Organisations and Foreign Governments. Today, I’d like to introduce you to Foundations. What is a Foundation? A Foundation is a type of nonprofit organisation, [...]

Meet a donor: Foreign Governments

By |April 29th, 2025|

We’re talking about the different types of donors, where they get their funding from and how they operate. In my last blog we talked about Multilateral Grantmaking Organisations. Today I’d like to introduce you to Foreign Governments.  Definition of a Foreign Government (as a Funder for NPOs) A foreign government is a [...]

Why critical policies can be such a headache!

By |November 26th, 2024|

Let’s be honest—writing policies is no one’s idea of fun. Sitting down to decide rules and procedures for an entire organisation is time-consuming and not particularly exciting. It requires thinking through every possible situation and accounting for all the “what-ifs.” More often than not, it’s the finance or admin team [...]

Turning Conflict into Progress: The Power of Healthy Disagreements in Non-Profits

By |October 22nd, 2024|

As a leader in a non-profit, you may instinctively want to avoid conflict, seeing it as a disruption to your team’s harmony. However, I want to challenge that mindset. Conflict, when managed well, can actually be a powerful tool for growth and progress in your organisation. It’s important to recognise [...]

One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch

By |October 22nd, 2024|

Have you ever hired someone new and noticed that the whole vibe of the organisation shifts? It’s hard to pinpoint at first, but something just feels off. People who used to love coming to work seem less enthusiastic, and suddenly the team doesn’t feel as cohesive. At first, you might [...]

Effective Communication – Rinse and Repeat

By |February 28th, 2024|Tags: , , |

If you’ve known me for 5 minutes, you’ll know I like to talk! It’s how I learn, process information, and communicate most clearly. But I know that sometimes it’s important to distill information into text or video or a recording of some kind. People need to be able to refer [...]

Just Do It

By |November 30th, 2023|Tags: , , |

I realized in writing the last blog (found here) that it’s not actually the decision that we struggle with as leaders. Deep down we know what needs to be done if we stop and listen to our gut. We try to rationalize things with a pros and cons list but [...]

Parent yourself!

By |November 15th, 2023|Tags: , , |

Welcome to my blog! I’m hoping to regularly (no guarantees!) share with you my thoughts, lessons I’ve learned, tips, processes, methodologies, and basically, my headspace. I hope that you will find some of it interesting, some of it useful and some of it shareable so that others can benefit from [...]

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