Corporate Social Responsibility
As a specialist in NGO development and management with extensive international experience, FORTITUDE offers a tailormade process of matching NGO’s with donors organisations in order to ensure that the CSR obligation of organisations is effectively and competently met through an effective partnership approach.
This process involves us undertaking a robust due diligence of the NGO on behalf of the donor organisation as well as ongoing liaison to ensure transparency and accountability. Our unique role as the broker between agencies ensures that a healthy co-operative relationship is developed and sustained and that all parties are able to achieve mutual objectives.
In short, we manage the client relationships to ensure a synergy between the ethos and values of both the NGO’s and corporates and thereby enhance the organisational culture of both by building enhanced competence and efficient management in the NGO’s as well stronger social imperative and inter-connectedness in the donor organisations.
As part of this process Fortitude has a robust and comprehensive assessment process that enables us to undertake effective identification and matching of NGO’s. This means we undertake the due-diligence so that you don’t have to and our assessment of the competence and capability of an NGO is derived from our extensive experience of working with them. This includes the following:
· Financial management, transparency and accountability
· Registration as an NGO with all official documentation and compliance
· Policies and Procedures- are up to date and implemented effectively
· Data Protection- that all data is competently managed according to GDPR rules
· Effective Project management process in place
· Safeguarding- that all policies and protocols are in place to protect children and vulnerable people
· Equality and Diversity- organisations are inclusive and uphold equality and human rights
· Environmental- that organisations are paying due consideration to environmental issues.
· The NGO’s are credible and have a track record of creating sustainable change
· Social media- assessing their online profile and footprint
· Reputation Risk management- that there are no risks to reputational damage
· Expertise- demonstratable quality and expertise within the field
· Human-Resources- that employees are competent and professional with required expertise, skills and experience.
· Strategic Objectives- Vision and values of organisations match those of donors
· Evaluation and Monitoring- review of performance indicators and project evaluations
· Third party references- to verify our findings
Through this process we ensure the following for corporate donors:
· Effective relationship management and liaison between partners and effective information management and communication.
· Facilitating all dialogue and joint meetings to ensure synergy and mutual understanding.
· Reduced risk to both organisations.
· Mutual benefit and growth the meets strategic objectives and actualises vision and values.
· Positive impact on your ethos as you can see the impact of your donation.
· Increased opportunity for successful outputs due to the specialist support provided.
· Monthly project updates and an annual project report.
Through our approach we aim to ensure that we build effective long-term partnerships that are transformational for beneficiaries and contribute to sustainable development and hence your CSR contributions are more than just fulfilling obligations but creating inter-connectedness and social-consciousness. Becoming an ethical and aware donor of chosen NGO contributes to real change.