Activities

The NGO Academy offers capacity building programmes for representatives of NGOs and social businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. Each programme focuses on the further development of management competences and addresses a variety of related topics. They are clustered into four categories:

Resources & Innovation: this category includes topics related to the various resources an organisation uses and depends on and their acquisition, as well as innovation management as a mean to create, identify and introduce new resources into existing systems (eg. fundraising, community involvement, innovation management, social entrepreneurship, design thinking, etc.)

Planning & Implementation: this category addresses topics related to skills necessary in the daily work of an organisation, as well as in the implementation of new projects (eg. marketing, social media, project planning, etc.)

Sustaining Success: this category consists of topics relevant for the successful management of an organisation, internally and towards external stakeholders (eg. leadership, impact measurement, proposal writing, etc.)

Local Focus: this category focuses on topics relevant to organisations due to the local context they are operating in, such as a specific country or its status in relation to the EU, as well as soft skills that might vary depending on the cultural frame (eg. EU funds, negotiations, CSR partnerships, etc.).