IODSA: Governance for NPO’s Western Cape

Overview

Corporate social investment practitioners in South Africa understand that having professional, knowledgeable, competence and dedicated directors of non profit organisations is essential. The donor / funder community is becoming more stringent on this issue, especially when conducting their due diligence, before funding a non profit organisation, which makes imperative that all directors have the competencies to meet these expectations.

Corporate governance in the “Third Sector” is a priority area to be developed in South Africa. This one day programme is aimed at equipping owners and directors of not for profit companies an overview of governance and how it relates to their environment.

Key focus areas

• The “Third Sector” landscape
• The concept of governance
• NPO organisational structure
• Roles and responsibilities and standard of conduct for directors
• Board and Committee composition and Terms of Reference
• Codes of good practice and their relevance to each structure
• Board effectiveness
• The duties of the Chairman
• The five phases of growth of an organisation
• Key corporate governance role players

Date & Duration

26 November 2015
1 Full day – 09h00 – 16h00

Presentation fees 

Delegates must meet the NPO criteria to qualify for these rates (click her for more)

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