Managerial Challenge

An Introduction to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Management authored by Ali

Mostashari http://web.mit.edu/isg/NGOManagement.pdf

1. Transparency in operations and goal

2. mobilize resources, in the form of financial donations, materials or

volunteer labor, in order to sustain their projects and programs. This process may require
quite
complex organization. Finance obtained from grants or contracts, from governments,
foundations
or companies, require time and expertise spent on planning, preparing applications,
budgeting,
accounting and reporting. Major fund-raising events require skills in advertising, media
relations
and motivating supporters. Thus, operational NGOs need to possess an efficient headquarters
Bureaucracy, in addition to the operational staff in the field
3. Persuading people to donate their time is necessary
4. Mobilize large number of people
5. Organizing special events, cultivating the media and administering a headquarters.
Only the defining activities – implementing projects or holding demonstrations
6. An increase in the effectiveness of NGO board itself has been achieved by bringing
together organizations and leaders with a shared interest in the work of boards;
building capacity by training; and developing management and
7. Governance tools. Having a good and effective
8. Distributing responsibilities among the team members within the NGO organization.
9. Financial Management
a. Keeping Record
b. foundations of all accounting are basic records that describe your earnings and
spending. This means the contracts and letters for money you receive and the
receipts and the invoices for things that you buy.
c. Internal control
d. Financial reporting

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1. How to develop an organsational strategy, aims and objectives

2. How to create, promote and manage projects successfully
3. How to obtain funding and to use funds properly
4. How to manage human resources well
5. How to communicate an organisation’s aims internally and externally and
how to plan and carry out a marketing strategy
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1. Software to help NGOs assess performance by IANS, www.SiliconIndia.com

OSANGO, he said, is a user-friendly software package that enables NGOs to undertake survey-based self-analysis in an economical,

autonomous manner while ensuring complete confidentiality. It can generate useful futuristic baseline data and benchmarking, provides

analysis of performance and potential, he added.

software that is VERY easy to learn and use. Here are the tools you need to fundraise like a

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1. Project Management
Create main projects and its sub detailed project with cost and
duration details
2. Beneficiary Management
Maintain beneficiary information. Connect the beneficiary with a
project.
3. Donor Management
Maintain a Donor list with their information. Connect them with a
particular project by setting up the duration and due dates or simply
add the donations to an unassigned project.
4. Accounts Management
Accepts payment information by cash, cheque, debit or credit card.
Payment made against the due dates and for a particular project.
5. Reports
Generate reports for monthly or yearly payments and expenses.
Reports for project list, donor list, staff details, beneficiary list etc.
or as required by management.