Generating NGO funds through social entrepreneurship
27 March 2008
Community and non-government organisations consistently face the challenge of securing funding for their work.
In the Philippines, Alliance linking organisation the Philippine NGO Support Programme (PHANSuP) along with leading experts in social entrepreneurship have developed a training programme for the social development sector that provides organisations with the knowledge and skills to generate sustained income.
Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development for Population, Health and Development (SEED4PHD), equips participants to create and pursue business ideas, raise capital and transform projects into profitable and sustainable enterprises whilst still maintaining their programme’s objectives.
The Asia Pacific Reproductive Health and Development Centre of PHANSuP developed and piloted the training programme in June 2007. A SEED4PHD training course was then developed and run with the assistance of the Foundation for Rural Economic Enterprise and Development.
The eight-day course was attended by 40 people from 26 partner organisations and was facilitated by some of the country’s leading business and management specialists.
The course modules were tailored for the social development sector and covered topics such as social enterprise development and marketing; product and service conceptualisation and development; external and internal assessment, strategic planning, and organisational and human resource development.
At the end of the training participants were asked to submit a plan incorporating all that they had learned from the course. Thirty were submitted and an e-group set up for participants to share learning and experiences on the practice of social entrepreneurship and enterprise development.
