Management of Non-profits - organisation of constant changes

Which is more important - to manage intuitively, guided by your cause, or to look for a rofessional in organizational management? Sober expertise or experience based on mistakes along the way?

Almost everyone involved in running a non-profit organization has come to the above questions. To these, and regardless of their response, we should add the dynamics of the environment and the civil sector over the last 20 years, the characteristics of its funding and the hiring of teams.

We start the autumn season with the theme of NGO management to pay tribute to the professionals (and sometimes only volunteers) who are at the helm of organizations and manage them in murky and ever-changing waters, often with minimal resources, but with great number of needy and problems seeking solutions.

With the clear awareness that this is the first episode of a long series, we emphasize the topics in the conversation:

• The challenges of being a leader in an ever-changing environment
• Working with people (team, volunteers, etc.)
• The balance in work and burnout
• Shared practices and lessons

The conversation will include:

Olga Mineva, EMPROVE

Olga Mineva is an Organizational Psychologist with degrees in Psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and Organizational Psychology from the University of London, UK. Olga has dedicated the last 10 years to supporting organizations in both business and the non-governmental sector as a psychologist and consultant. She herself is the founder of the @EMPROVE Foundation, which seeks to fully influence public support and attitudes aimed at women and girls who have experienced violence.

Maria Alkalay,

Maria Marinova-Alkalay actively partners with various organizations in the civil sector to increase capacity and build training teams. Since 2017 he has been working with UNICEF Bulgaria on programs for raising the qualification of pedagogical specialists from kindergartens and primary schools in the country to change the attitudes when working in a multicultural environment. Over the years she has been a mentor to the Coaches Unit of the National Youth Forum, a consultant to the Organization of Bulgarian Scouts, a trainer for the BG Be Active Association, a youth LGBT organization "Action", the Bulgarian Women's Fund, the "Mission Wings" Foundation, the association " Varna - European Youth Capital ”.

Teodora Ivanova-Valeva, Impact Drive

Her professional life has long been associated with project management and organizational development, as well as the design and management of grant schemes and programs. He works for a short time in public authorities and in private management consulting, but finds passion and meaning in working in the non-governmental sector and people working for causes. He is very interested in how to be effective, influential and successful in their missions. The activity and support of the organizations is related to participation in projects, mentoring, assistance in creating fundraising and business plans, organizational, communication and management strategies, lectures, consulting and others.

The meeting will be moderated by Dilyana Gyurova, consultant at Impact Drive