I don’t often work with volunteer-led organisations. Let me clarify that. I work with a lot of boards that are populated with volunteers and who have at least two or three paid staff, sometimes more. I don’t often work with organisations where there are only volunteers, who sit on the Read more…
Recently I was at a presentation of data from a Europe-wide study on Philanthropic trends across 20 countries in the EU from The European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP). It is really interesting analysis and I won’t bore you with the details here now, but one result really stood out Read more…
Yesterday (19 November 2018) an important and vital report on the state of civil society in England was released. It doesn’t pull any punches and has a strong call to action to do things differently going forward if civil society is to flourish in England. Which is all good. However, Read more…
In 2016 I started working on a pro bono basis with a membership organisation called EUConsult that aims to contribute towards a strong, independent European-wide not-for-profit sector served by ethical, professional and competent consultants and advisors by providing a forum for consultants to the not-for-profit sector. Encouraging and stimulating ethical Read more…
One of the systems thinking tools that I use a lot is a stakeholder analysis based on core systems concepts of inter-relationships, perspectives and boundaries. Inter-relationships: How do things connect with each other?This is the most familiar systems concept and the oldest. Inter-relationships can be dynamic, linear and nonlinear, have Read more…
I recently took on a project that included identifying the key elements of a successful intervention. This gave me the opportunity to use a rarely used tool in the evaluator tool box: qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Ragin, 1987) in a case-based method that allows evaluators to systematically Read more…