Applying finance fundamentals to nonprofit realties.
Helping you achieve excellent fundraising results based on proven and profitable fundraising programmes.
Our dedicated charity sector focused financial management experts love working with people whose ambitions are to change the world for the better. We see our role as facilitating this change by working jointly with the Board, finance and non-finance staff to enhance their capabilities to manage their financial resources, programmes and initiatives in accordance with the financial standards.
To strengthen your financial management and compliance, we perform a gap analysis of processes and practices in the following areas to help identify compliance gaps and recommend management actions:
Procurement
Invoicing and Payments
Cash Management
HR and Payroll
Investments
Grant Management
Fundraising
Fixed Assets Management
Organisational audit, establish goals & design of fundraising programmes and mentoring
We conducted an organisational audit to understand the successes, opportunities, processes and gaps in its local fundraising; developed recommendations for their fundraising goals, strategies and tactics; supported the interview and review of fundraising staff and trained the Board and management team for fundraising success.
Developed a fundraising strategy for Global Development Network (GDN), a network of research institutions founded by the World Bank to improve its access to unrestricted funds.
“Usha, you will be glad to know that following the workshop you had for our staff from the various hospitals and projects, they have done some really innovative things to raise funds locally.”
Dr. Sunil Anand, Director, The Leprosy Mission (India)
Community Engagement
Designed an Online Fundraising Accelerator to help charities and their leaders to understand and use the tools for effective fundraising
With participants and collaborators of the Majulah online fundraising accelerators.
We provided Community engagement consultancy to help the Board and Management in their outreach and resource mobilisation efforts in Singapore to build a vibrant and viable social enterprise sector.
“Usha provided fundraising consultancy to Social Enterprise Association in 2012. She is a veteran non-profit leader, entrenched in the Singapore and Asian landscape. Her network opened doors for the Association. She impressed with her systematic and tenacious approach to fundraising.”
With our support, the Community Chest’s SHARE program ( Employee / Workplace giving ) saw the donor base grow from 30,000 donors to nearly 300,000 during 1990.
National Council of Social Service contracted us In 2009, and successfully relaunched SHARE and helped them to implement strategies and plans that have begun to show results of building back and increasing the donor base.
“Have worked with Usha on SHARE, our monthly workplace giving programme. Usha is able to conceptualise and generate ideas for fundraising. A reliable person who delivers.”
Tan Bee Heong, Executive Director
Helping nonprofits to put in place robust financial management processes
Fund Accounting
Full Cost Recovery
Budget development
Cash Flow Management
Reserves & Investment policies and reporting
Chinese charity sector leaders from national and provincial organisations, working on sharpening their skills and competencies to impact causes and address community needs along with China’s belt-and-road initiative.
“Usha Menon's knowledge provided insight and understanding of an Asian country non-profit sector to ChildFund. Her consulting agency delivered a well-rounded practical report on time and within budget.”
Helped Citi Private Bank’s ultra-high net worth clients and their younger generation to explore their passions and purpose to better focus their philanthropic efforts.
Philanthropy advisor and consultant for the training of Credit Suisse relationship managers to understand the social eco-system and hence better advice their clients on their philanthropic aspirations.
Market Entry
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