On average during partnership, organisations experienced a 4.05x increase in stakeholders, 2.22x in funding and a 2.11x increase in staff.
85% of the partner organisations reported growing by 1 stage at least. While the bulk of partner organisations were reportedly on stage 3 at the time of joining, this shifts to stage 4 at the time of graduation.
The 3 - Years Partnership enables organisations to patiently and systematically build capacity. There are two distinguishing parts to a 3-year partnership.
Partnership launch activities
Both of these activities give Atma a very long-term outlook on the organisation's capacities and plans for growth. The products of these activities are the basis for Atma's work over the 3-year period.
Life Stage Survey
Strategy Plan
Partnership progress
The partnership itself will be set against the long-term trajectories set out in the Life Stage Survey and the strategic plan. These documents will be revisited for each consecutive year and advise the Annual Implementation Plan. Each year a minimum of 10 projects towards the NGOs' long-term goals will be completed.
Year 1 - Focus on vision and programme alignment and creating capacity to move forward.
Year 2 - Building functional area teams and processes to guide programmes and operations.
Year 3 - Focus on pursuing emerging opportunities and assembling resources to fuel growth.
The 1 - Year Partnership enables organisations to get focused sustained support in key problem areas.
Partnership launch activities
Both of these activities give Atma and the partner NGO the focus needed to solve key challenge areas of the organisation on a 12-month timeline.
Problem Analysis
Project Plan
Partnership progress
The partnership will focus on 1 or 2 organisational development areas.
Monthly progress meetings against the project plan will be held.
There is a focus in the partnership on team participation, training, and capacity building to enable quick uptake and implementation of new tools, policies, and practices.
A project partnership works with a partner NGO on a project they have identified as a Challenge Area. Atma will work with the organisation to develop the solutions over a 3-6 month period, depending on the NGO.
Partnership launch activities
Through a few leadership-level conversations Atma will analyze the problem and set out a clear project plan detailing expected deliverables.
Problem Analysis
Project scoping
Partnership progress
The focus of the partnership will be getting the expected deliverables completed.
The Atma team will work closely with the NGO and maintain tight timelines.
The partnership timeline is flexible depending on the scope of the project.
Atma is very experienced in running workshops for our partner NGOs either individually or as a group. We regularly do both online and offline sessions.
Atma Signature Workshops
Atma has several signature workshops that we conduct with our partners as part of onboarding or through the course of the partnership. Through this service, any NGO or NGO stakeholder can access these workshops or request a custom workshop for their team or a group of NGOs.
Atma Life Stage Survey
Strategy Planning
Impact Workshop
Joint Programme Assessment
Programme Relevance
Custom workshops
Atma regularly delivers customised workshops for individual or groups of NGOs. Topics we have covered recently include:
NGO Governance and board membership
Volunteer management
Annual Planning
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