NGO Advisory Services

Non-governmental/not-for-profit/ social organizations are the agencies that act as gap fillers in service delivery of the governments. Founded by the people who are passionate about a certain issue, the very existence of an NGO depends on bringing the social change and impacting the communities positively.

Such organizations face diverse operational issues

The paramount issue is of funds, as the not-for-profit organizations heavily depend on donations from individuals, corporate and government funding agencies.
NGOs cannot afford to hire many people and most of the time few people don several hats and fulfil multiple responsibilities, hence they are highly depended on the volunteers.
Mostly there is lack of awareness about the good work being done by an NGO in the society. This has a ripple effect on attracting donors and volunteers alike.

Portfolio of Services

CSR Readiness

CSR ecosystem has changed quite a lot since the CSR Act is enacted in 2014. There is still some ambiguity about the Act and lack of understanding of accessing the CSR among a few NGOs. At times some of them find challenging to assess if they are ready to receive CSR funds and how to approach corporate and access that CSR funding. Social Equity

can not only sensitize your leadership and the fundraising team about the CSR Act and the nuances of NGO-Corporate partnership for social good but, also help you develop customized approach for the same.

Volunteer management

NGO largely function on the goodwill of volunteers. People volunteer either they feel very strongly about the cause or to fulfill a desire of self-actualization. A happy and fulfilled volunteer is like a magnet that will attract like-minded people to volunteer their time and services to your organization. Hence it is important to engage volunteers in the most effective way.

Creative volunteer management is vital to a nonprofit’s health and welfare Social Equity can help you develop a robust volunteer management program that will help you leverage the skills of each individual volunteer in the most optimum manner. We can help you develop program to employ volunteers with right skills to the right job, develop training programs, assigning, and supervising work schedules etc.

Donor management

Donors are the most important entity in a NGOs space of work. Identifying, attracting, retaining, and managing donors can be a humongous and daunting task that needs to be done well. As the donor base grows it become exceedingly difficult to individually keep in touch with all the donors. But most of time, NGOs find it

difficult to raise funds to achieve the same. The fact is that Non-profit’s ability to achieve its mission is directly related to its ability to raise funds. In other words, regardless of who you help, you cannot do it without funding. NGOs must have a continuous source of inflow of the funds; hence a structured approach to fundraising is particularly important for them.
Social Equity can help you develop a structured and effective donor management system, that would enable you to keep in touch with your donors on a continuous basis.

Fund raising strategies for a non-profit

as the name suggests the existence of Not for profit/NGOs is for doing social good without making any profit. But even for doing social good funds are required. Most of the times, NGO management and team is extremely good in understanding the cause and devising solutions to solve such challenges.

But most of time, NGOs find it difficult to raise funds to achieve the same. The fact is that Non-profit’s ability to achieve its mission is directly related to its ability to raise funds. In other words, regardless of who you help, you cannot do it without funding. NGOs must have a continuous source of inflow of the funds; hence a structured approach to fundraising is particularly important for them.

Effective Communication

It is essential for the survival of an NGO that the society is aware of the good work they are doing. What is the use of supporting a good cause if you are not able to garner attention and have more people come forward to support it. This awareness is not only important for the beneficiaries that the help is

available but also helps attract donors and volunteers alike.Social Equity can help you develop awareness building campaigns to attract volunteers and donors. We can also help you in developing strategies for internal and external communication that would programs to report the success of their program among communities and the friends of the NGOs (donors and volunteers). We can develop communication and customized awareness programs for diverse target audiences – communities, peers (other NGOs), volunteers, donors, government agencies.

Effective Board Management

There is a growing need for non-profit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout the world to be more effective and productive. Similarly, in India, since the CSR Act has come in force and Indian corporate expects NGOs and Non-profits to be more sustainable, effective, productive, and accountable.

In corporate CSR committee consisting of Board members CSR activities, they also look at a strong NGO Board, that would be responsible for the accountability of the organization. Unfortunately, most of the Board members are inducted based on personal relationships and their place in the society. Their relevance for the organization is hardly ever evaluated.
This is where Social Equity comes in the picture. We can work with you to create a strong and effective Board.