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Overview
For people building or running voluntary organisations and international partnerships: governance, volunteer management, funding and ethical partnership. Addresses the real risks of well-intentioned work.
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Aims of the Course
- Set up and govern a voluntary organisation properly
- Recruit, support and retain volunteers
- Fund and report on programmes transparently
- Build equitable international partnerships
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Course Structure
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Founding and Governance
- Legal forms and constitutions
- Trustee roles and duties
- Policies every organisation needs
- Risk and safeguarding
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Volunteer Management
- Role design and recruitment
- Induction and training
- Motivation, recognition and retention
- Managing difficult volunteers
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Funding and Finance
- Grants, donations and trading
- Budgeting and reserves
- Donor reporting
- Financial controls for small organisations
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Programme Delivery
- Needs-led programme design
- Working with local partners
- Monitoring and learning
- Managing volunteers overseas ethically
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Ethical Partnership
- Colonial legacies in aid
- Localisation and power
- Voluntourism and its harms
- Consent, dignity and images
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Organisational Plan
- Strategy for a small nonprofit
- Communications and storytelling
- Impact report
- Sustainability and succession
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Draft a constitution and core policy set
- 02Design a volunteer recruitment and support plan
- 03Build a small-organisation budget with reserves
- 04Apply ethical principles to an international partnership
- 05Produce an annual impact report
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Assessment
- Governance and policy pack
- Volunteer programme plan
- Impact report and partnership review
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Entry Requirements
- Open access
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Progression and Careers
- Nonprofit manager
- Volunteer coordinator
- Programme officer