Common non-profit sector issues

strategic plan was never applied though it took months to agree upon

non profit professionalisation: volunteer/ staff/ manager cycle. training activist managers

organisational blind spots

protecting the legality of the concrete actions, avoiding lawsuits

activist burnout, trauma

important turn over

 witnessing violations working with victims, in dangerous setting.

realistic and achievable objectives vs. defending non negotiable principles and rights.

specificities of working in politically and legally adverse contexts

maintaining meaningfulness

addressing training needs

documenting and transmitting  precious and often implicit practices and know-hows

core-funding vs project funding: are the projects really useful?

resource allocation, priorities in practice

internal and external communication challenges

building smart alliances within a thematic or geographical network

Legal challenges

Is litigation worthless ?  Is it your only option? Do you need a lawyer?

Choose your arena. You pick your fights. Get a clear view of your legal routes and the possible scenarios. 

How to collect evidence when working in urgent and degraded situations? 

Are you defending existing rights or also claiming new rights? Do you act defensively or proactively for rights?

How to defend yourself when facing threats and attacks? What are your blind spots, where are you vulnerable and how to address this? 

How to build legal strategy alliances and how to construct the perfect legal scenario to match your interests?

Is class action a thing? 

When some instrumentalise the law, why shouldn’t you?

How do legal issues connect to your other areas of work? How do legal, strategic, political and internal work organisation thinking impact each other? 

How to know whether your actions are legal, and which risks you are really taking?

We bring a global approach to problem solving,

moving out of the often fruitless search for solutions in silos, since we noticed that without a global approach, the solutions only last for a short while. 

 

Legal advice, strategic consulting, organisational dimensions are the faces of one same object. We do not consider strategy like an item or a field, but like the underlying mindset for every dimension of your work. 

 

We make legal actions and strategy proactive and practical for groups and their field actors without them depending on last minute external / top-down interventions.

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