PIN Announces Non-Profit Employee Motivation Program (NEMP)
I am pleased to introduce to you the Non–Profit Employee Motivation Program (NEMP), a capacity building initiative for Non-Profits by Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN). NEMP is geared towards achieving overall increased productivity of staff of Non Profits in Nigeria, the project has amongst others the following cardinal objectives:
- To motivate employees for better organizational productivity;
- To motivate employees towards Personal Development within organization’s career space;
- To introduce employees to the win-win scenario in organizational growth;
- To encourage employees to move from local actors to glocal (think global, act local) players
- To give maximum value to donor funding and organizational capacity building
The program has become necessary after our evaluation of the Non Profit space in Nigeria revealed that:
- Most non-profits are worried that staff are not motivated
- Budget constraints and organizational models often mean low pay
- Organization leaders wish that employees will have their own kind of passion and ignore limiting conditions
- It’s not about the money or any other thing, its about the value of people and their attitude to work
- Organizations wish to increase employee efficiency with minimal budget growth
- Every organization would love to grow in reach (to become global)
- Every donor will like to see their grantees become increasingly better and global
- Every NGO network will like to see members improve in capacity
The program will have at its core the following courses to be delivered by experienced facilitators:
- Choosing a Non-Profit Career
- Understanding the Non-Profit Space
- Personal Growth for Non-Profit Actors
- Improving Organizational Efficiency
- Managers, Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs
- Becoming Glocal Players
Note however, that the trainings can be tailor made to suit your organizations specific needs. Charges for the program are moderate considering the nature of our targeted audience, but will depend largely on the preferred method of delivery (in your office or in a retreat setting, staff strength and location). Please let us know what you think and we’ll take things from there. Looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Oluwakorede Asuni
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria
18 Akinbola Street
Ilupeju 100252
Lagos
Nigeria
+234 805 624 9391
korede.asuni [at] canevillage.com
The idea of working for the benefit of fellow man has always been a noble thing, however, in Africa, the concept of non-profit has becoming largely FOR profit as these organizations are funded by larger international organizations.. I guess my question would be… how do you motivate people who’s lifestyles call for aid of some sort that “It’s not about the money or any other thing, its about the value of people and their attitude to work”… I think the idea is a great one, however I would be extremely interested in seeing how the capacity building and motivation will work!!! good luck guys
@ Lila:
Thanks for the concern, and this is exactly why we set out with this training.
If you look at my earlier articles (“Social Enterprise in Africa: An Emerging Concept in an Emerging Economy” at http://www.academicjournals.org/INGOJ/introduction/introduction/introduction2006/Oct/Gbenga%C2%A0%20Sesan.htm; “Of Youth Advocacy and Proof” at http://www.gbengasesan.com/blog/?p=139; and “Last Day at Junior Achievement” at http://www.gbengasesan.com/blog/?p=145), you will see where I argued for social entrepreneurship as a model that should replace the beg-now-get-later model that many non-profits adopt today.
This, however, does not discredit the need for institutional support when it comes, but new models require that each non-profit should understand its social mission and not compromise such either because it lacks the means to do so or because it has some “international donor pressure” holding it down.
I am also sad about how the idea of non-profit has either become a natural abode for those who consider it an alternative to well-built careers (its easy to start a campaign these days — as long as you mention a downtrodden group — and this has been seriously abused) but I also recognize the role played by non-profit actors and social entrepreneurs who (like Ashoka loves to put it) will not give fish, will not even teach others to fish, but will not stop until they revolutionize the fishing industry!
I will be glad to make some short videos and sample materials available through the PIN website (www.pin.org.ng) and other online channels after we host the first few sessions — and I believe that this will revolutionalize the way non-profit actors see the career and call we have CHOSEN to respond to. Capacity building and motivation will reach into the inner recess of these core values and make a demand on their need to rise to the challenges that we need to bring to book!
Best regards,
I am fascinated by the idea of training and equipping non-profit employees in Nigeria. It seems to me that the objectives you outlined should have been the core issues considered in setting up a non-profit organization in the first place; i.e. what you seek to do should be an on-going internal pre-occupation of those organizations. This is obviously not the case as your research outcome claims.
My question to you is how you intend to sell your craft to organizations that are perpetually strapped for cash and hardly see their internal structure and focus as contributory to their inability to raise funds for their often great programs.
I currently live in Charlotte NC, USA, but I am very interested in this dimension of the society. I will appreciate updates from you.
There is a new nonprofit website based here in Nigeria that tries to come to terms with the realities of nonprofit work in Nigeria and else where. Please visit our blog (on http://www.jcccmemorialparks.org) to join this discussion (the JCCC Blog > the Blog Today).
From our discussions on the Blog it emerges more and more that nonprofits might need more than passion for motivation. This sort of training suggested here might be necessary in a world with seriously spreading financial crisis.
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