Sustainability for Non-Profit Organizations

Lecture Description

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of The Global Fund for Women (GFW) understands the importance of sustainability for its grantees because it must also be a sustainable organization. GFW helps grantees by discussing up front ways for strengthening and expanding funding in local communities. She stresses that sustainability is not to be confused with creating a profit-making venture. GFW also perceives that funding should continue over longer periods of time and groups should be encouraged to diversify funding base, build more capacity, engage with others in the community.

Course Index

1. Definition of Entrepreneurship
2. The Story of Global Fund for Women
3. Early Investors in Global Fund for Women
4. Distributing Capital: Using an Exisiting, Well Informed Network
5. Women Drive Change in Their Circumstances and Communities.
6. Challenging the Traditional Model of Philanthropy
7. Women's Issues
8. Examples of Social Entrepreneurs
9. The Current Need For the True Spirit of Entrepreneurship
10. The Universality of Human Rights
11. Sense of Being a Global Citizen
12. Sustainability for Non-Profit Organizations
13. A Different Kind of Philanthropy
14. Local vs. International Philanthropy
15. Measure of Success in Philanthropy
16. Grantee Selection Criteria for Global Fund for Women
17. Grass Roots Work vs. Philanthropic Work