Momentum provides advice to social profit organisations on the challenge of embracing economic, environmental and governance issues in line with national and international best practice. This allows social profit organisations to increase institutional effectiveness and to better engage in corporate partnerships.

• Develop multi-year, mission driven strategic plan with full stakeholder involvement;

• Conduct board audits (policies, practice and composition) and board engagement strategies including:
  • Beyond strategic planning: How to involve Boards in Growth and Change;
  • Govern more manage less: How to focus board members on strategic issues;
  • Succession planning, self-assessments and evaluation of CEO effectiveness;
  • Overcoming the information gap between professional staff and volunteer board members;
  • Strategies to deal with board dynamics;

• Develop and implement a corporate cultivation process (increasing the institutional capacity to work with the corporate sector);

• Audit income generating activities including gaps analysis;

• Design mission driven, holistic income generating strategies matched by resources and aspirations and realistic, measurable targets;

• Develop frameworks to measure and report on the social footprint;

• Design integrated, mission driven sustainability strategies; and

• Professional development/ mentoring for CEO’s, Board members and corporate partnership executives in line with strategic direction of the organisation.

NOTE

The terms Non-Government-Organisation (NGO) and Not-for-Profit Organisation (NFP) are widely used and recognized. Momentum prefers and advocates the use of the term social profit organisation instead as we believe it is helpful to define an entire sector by what it does: generating social profits rather than by what it does not do or is: non-profit or non-government. Instead, we prefer terms like social economy, social entrepreneur and social profit organizations as it assists in actively focusing those who work for and in this sector on what we are aiming to achieve. It focuses us on setting performance measures and targets to generate social profits.