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About us

The NGO Management School was set up in 2006 by a group of people in Switzerland and the Philippines in response to a growing demand by NGOs and individuals for training in NGO management and organisational development. The School is a nonprofit institution.



    NMS Mission Statement

    Our mission is to assist NGOs in the North and the South in developing sustainable management capacity to take effective action for the benefit of the communities or cause they serve.
    To this purpose, the NGO Management School makes training and learning opportunities easily accessible to NGOs by bringing courses close to where participants live and work. We are committed to working in partnership with local organisations, to ensure that course curricula are needs-led and that course fees are fair.


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The NGO Management Association

The NGO Management School is a department of the NGO Management Association (NMA). NMA is an independent nonprofit association registered as NGO in Switzerland (reg. no. CH-550-1055048-2). We are based in the Geneva area, Switzerland.

A group of professionals working in the humanitarian sector in Geneva, Switzerland, founded the volunteer association in December 2001. Our starting point was to help NGOs improving their management capacity and performance by making available free management tools and key articles on NGO management. To this purpose, we set up the website NGO Manager with the NGO Management E-Library. Members from NMA maintain and develop the website.
The NGO Manager Newsletter informs subscribers about new practical tools and useful articles related to NGO management. The newsletter is currently subscribed by more than 4,000 persons from more than 70 countries in the South and in the North. Subscribers include people working for NGOs, donor organisations, multilateral organisations, government agencies and universities. The newsletter is free of charge. To subscribe to the newsletter, please visit NGO Manager.

NMS members are NGO management specialists and practitioners who are working in the fields of development, environment, humanitarian aid and education in the South and the North. Several of NMG's members accomplished their studies in NGO management in the London School of Economics' Centre for Civil Society.

If you wish to know more about our activities and how you can participate, please send an email to courses[at]ngomanager.org, or leave us a voicemail message at 0041.22.534.96.84.
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