Get To Know Us

We are a community for nonprofits because we believe in collectivism. We are trainers for founders and high-impact organizations because we understand the environment and issues better. We are innovators because we have built in the past and still want to build enterprises that solve grassroot problems and most importantly, We are believers, because we believe in an Africa where communities and people can thrive.

WHO ARE WE

NCVO Ghana trains and offer consultancy services to daring non-profit organizations led by great founders and co-build innovative social enterprises with them; leveraging their extensive grassroot network and insights. Our work is made possible by a community of angel investors who provide generous philanthropic support to fuel our portfolio investing and ecosystem-building efforts.

We seek to advance the course of social entrepreneurship, public accountability, and transparency within the non-profit sector in a seamless manner to achieve public trust and sustainable development for diverse groups of persons, communities, and geographies in Ghana and beyond.

What we do

VOLUTEERISM

Volunteerism plays a crucial role in addressing socio-economic challenges in Ghana. However, many non-profit organizations struggle with managing volunteers effectively due to a lack of structured systems, resources, and training. This often results in underutilized volunteer potential and reduced impact on community development efforts. NCVO Ghana is thrilled to announce our collaboration with Level up Africa and ICS Africa to provide trained volunteers to nonprofit organizations and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our trained volunteers are ready to support your organization in various areas, bringing fresh perspectives and valuable skills to help you achieve your goals more effectively. Ready to take your organization to the next level? Don’t wait! Reach out to us today to get started. Email us at [email protected]

OUR STORY

In 2007, Shirley was working at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Faith Forum, a reputable community organization in the UK. At Barking and Dagenham Faith Forum, she witnessed first-hand how easily non-profit organizations received support from the central government and local authorities for impactful community-based projects. Against this background, she realized how non-profit organizations in Ghana could also maximize their impact if there was carefully curated support for community development organizations. She was inspired and quickly came to spend a year in Ghana; meeting leaders of Non-governmental organizations she could reach out to gain insights. These series of meetings exposed her to the big gap: philanthropy and all forms of voluntary organizations were largely unstructured and informal, making access to sustainable funding a major challenge, especially for youth and women-led organizations.

In 2014, She partially moved to Ghana with a stronger will to build a formidable non-profit sector that represents the aspiration of the very weak and vulnerable in society in light of all the manifold challenges ranging from broad-based policy and legal frameworks to inadequate professional knowledge on the side of founders.
The National Consortium for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) GHANA was officially born with a singular intent to be an umbrella organization for NGOs in Ghana. For the past years, NCVO GHANA worked with over 50 non-profit organizations and embarked on numerous events including virtual training to support capacity-building efforts. Along the journey, NCVO GHANA learned that funding from the founder, given as donations to NGOs, was not effective because it was not sustainable.

MISSION

To connect not-for-profit organizations to knowledge, resources, opportunities and network.

AIM

To build the most trusted hub for social innovation and learning.

OUR APPROACH

NCVO GHANA will be pooling financial resources from corporate bodies, family offices, foundations, and private individuals to find, fund, and scale early-stage, high-impact nonprofits and social ventures solving the big problems in Ghana and beyond.

Venture Philanthropy

Venture capital firms diversify money into undervalued or high-growth companies and help them hit milestones for exit. NCVO GHANA invests in high-impact nonprofits and holds them responsible for delivering results, using governance structures to guide their journey to success. Their goal is to find, fund, and scale the Apple of non-profits in Africa.

Knowledge Equity

By 2030, Africa will have the world’s largest workforce, and by the end of the century, it will have the largest population on earth. This presents both an opportunity and a risk. To prepare for the future, young innovators must have a clear understanding of what’s to come and be well-positioned through learning and strategic alliances.

Founder(s)-First

In early-stage investing, founders are crucial, so we believe in backing good and daring founders. We believe that good founders will always find a way. It’s not necessarily about the model, because company ideas, mission, and vision often pivot.

Impact Model

We will invest in organizations that have the potential for outsized impact through significant scale and those whose work can create massive jobs and/or are targeting the harder problems.

20x Impact

Traditional NGO mechanism is gradually becoming unsustainable. At NCVO GHANA, we will look forward to identifying impactful, sustainable, or social enterprising opportunities together with NGO founding teams that we shall be investing in. At whatever stage the partner organization is, we will invest in avenues that can at least 20X impact.

Success Equity

Portfolio organizations will make voluntary commitments to periodically donate to the NCVO GHANA seed fund when they become profitable. In this way, our financing model can be sustainable and long-lasting.

PARTNER WITH US

We are proud to partner with leading corporations, organizations and top ecosystem players globally, who share our mission of supporting Africa’s spirited changemakers.