Innovation and Change in Non-Profit Organisations

Authors

Don Macdonald (Editor & Contributor) is a Visiting Lecturer in the Community Sector and Social Enterprise at the University of Greenwich, having founded and managed charities, social enterprises and youth and community education projects in the UK for 40 years. He has also provided youth and community work training at different UK universities and coaching and management training, particularly to social sector managers. Don provided consultancy, business planning and coaching for emerging social enterprises for a British Council project in Myanmar. He is chair of the LFJ charity and advises and mentors small and emerging social enterprises. BEP has published his book “21st Century Skills for Non-Profit Managers: A Practical Guide on Leadership and Management”. He also edited with Charles Oham and wrote with six other authors “Leading and Managing a Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care”.

Charles Fraser CBE is the former CEO St Mungo’s 1994-2014, having built up the organisation as the largest charity providing direct services for homeless people in the UK, and having worked for St Mungo’s as a project worker in hostels, as regional manager and as Deputy Director since 1980.
Sian Lockwood OBE is the CEO of Community Catalysts, a CIC working through local partners across the U.K. to create an environment within which community social care and health enterprise can flourish. Sian blogs regularly about issues around health and social care. She has a long history of supporting community action to address social care and health issues and create choice for people who need some support or care to live their lives.

Shaks Ghosh is the CEO of Clore Social Leadership, where she writes regularly on relevant topics. She has a track record of service in the social sector, and wide experience of policy, housing, homelessness and youth unemployment issues. Her early career was in local government, housing associations, central Government and the Indian NGO sector. Following 10 years as CEO of Crisis, she led the establishment of the Private Equity Foundation. She is passionate about social justice and is now focused on strengthening the sector.

Chris Durkin is the Teaching Partnership Project Manager, Social Work Academy of Excellence, for a Nottinghamshire inter-agency partnership. Previously as Associate Professor at Northampton University, he set up the Institute of Urban Affairs, course leader for an M.A. Social Innovation and part of the senior management group and international academic lead in the School of Social Sciences. Chris has research interests in social entrepreneurship, social care, social innovation and community development. He co-edited with Robert Gunn “Social Entrepreneurship: A skills approach” published by the Policy Press (2010 & 2017). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and worked as a social worker before joining Northampton University in 2002, working first as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Programme Leader for Social Welfare.

Tommy Hutchinson is founder & CEO, i-genius, which promotes social entrepreneurship around the world, co-director of Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces and a European Commission Expert on sustainability and innovation. He has worked in over 40 countries & established several social businesses. His previous career in the City of London covered being an aerospace analyst, market intelligence & political adviser to NatWest Group. He is a visiting lecturer at several universities & honorary adviser to Hunan University. He has published several articles on aspects of the social economy & is co-author of “A Risky Business” and is working on other publications on social entrepreneurship.

Dr Chris O’Leary is Deputy Director of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is responsible for managing a number of research projects, providing leadership on the design and delivery of research and evaluation projects around public sector reform and its impact on social policy design, implementation and delivery. His research focuses on many aspects of public service reform, including outcome based commissioning (Payment by Results/Social Impact Bonds), commissioning and procurement, and the role of social innovation in driving reform.

Sarah Brennan OBE a consultant (former CEO of Young Minds) started as CEO at Young Minds, the UK’s leading charity for children and young people’s mental health in 2007 and retired in 2018. She now works as a consultant. She spent her earlier career in the social sector and previously worked with young offenders and those at risk of offending as CEO of Motiv8 and at Centrepoint, where she was Director of Services and Manager of Camberwell Foyer.

Dr Patrick Vernon OBE, Associate Director for Connected Communties at the Centre for Ageing Patrick is Winston Churchill and Clore Fellow, Fellow of Goodenough College,film maker and cultural historian and founder Every Generation and the 100 Great Black Britons campaign.Patrick is also founder of Every Generation Media and 100 Great Black Britons, which develops education programmes, publications and films on cultural heritage and family history.In 2018 was selected as one of the 1000 Evening Standard Progressive Londoners for his campaign for Windrush Day and 2019 by the Independent Happy List for fundraising efforts regarding Windrush Justice Fund.

Kathryn Engelhardt-Cronk is the Founder/CEO at MissionBox, President of the MissionBox Philanthropic Fund in the USA and now the UK. She has over 25 years in nonprofit services: first, as a direct service provider with adults suffering from mental illness and later as an executive director of non-profits working in substance abuse treatment and child abuse prevention. She also served as VP of Community Impact for United Way. After seeing a critical nonprofit need for service and outcomes reporting technology, Kathryn founded Community TechKnowledge (CTK). In her role as CEO and co-designer of CTK software and services, she provides non-profits with tools to build their capacity, researching and writing relevant articles regularly. Several years after, CTK launched the CTK Foundation, which receives a portion of CTK profits to donate to non-profits across the world.

Marchu Girma is a campaigner advocating for the rights of refugee and asylum seeking women. She works as the Grassroots Director for Women for Refugee Women and is passionate about empowering refugees and asylum seeking women to speak up about their experiences, and enabling them to use their voices for change. As part of her role at Women for Refugee Women, Marchu has co-authored research reports, delivered training and helps to maintain refugee women’s networks around the country. In 2017 Marchu was invited by UN Women to speak at their annual Commission on the Status of Women conference at the UN in New York.

Andy Shields is a consultant. Previously Head of Business Development at 3SC, the social sector procurement organisation, Andy has also acted as Head of Business Development, at the Home Group and Director of Skills and Learning at St Mungos, building up these services. He has also acted as an interim manager for a range of charities and non-profit organisations, working with service users from different client groups.

Sian Lockwood OBE, FRSA is the CEO of Community Catalysts, a CIC working through local partners across the U.K. to create an environment within which community social care and health enterprise can flourish. Sian blogs regularly about issues around health and social care. She has a long history of supporting community action to address social care and health issues and create choice for people who need some support or care to live their lives.