Category: Foundation
Evaluation can be complex but it can also be a simple, intuitive process that keeps us ‘on the ground’ long enough to ask all the right questions and process that information regularly to ensure that our work bears fruit.
Healthy organisations don’t ‘just happen’. To become a healthy organisation takes introspection, humility, honesty, and courage to confront hard questions, among many other things. The road to organisational health isn’t always easy, but it is worth the journey.
Over the years at Mergon, we have found that there is an inextricable link between strategic partnering and overall impact. The development of a partnership engagement strategy is essential for long-term sustainability and relevance.
Historically Africa has been a predominantly patriarchal society, but scratch the surface and you will find, women are often the lifeblood. This is what Bishop Boniface Shonga has come to find in his years working to see communities and nations transformed throughout Africa.
Through a process of identifying and defining the key dimensions of a healthy organisation, Mergon developed an Organisational Self-Perception Scan as a practical resource tool for NPO and ministry leaders.
While most organisational health tools measure on a ‘benchmarking’ or ‘performance-based’ assessment, in this article we’ll look at why we chose to measure perception specifically.
The underlying mission of everything we do at the Mergon Foundation is to be catalysts for the expansion of God’s Kingdom. It’s a mandate we all received from Jesus.
We asked Mergon’s COO, Gauche Radley, to share what he has learnt about generosity, both in his personal and professional capacity, over the years – packaged as principles…
To unpack the topic of organisational health, it is helpful for us to revisit high school physics – specifically the idea that energy is finite in any given system.
Healthy organisations will have impact so a large part of leadership involves managing & improving organisational health.
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