Material Resources
Introduction
Material: includes financial and physical capital, like office space, money,
equipment, and supplies. Human: resources such as labor, experience, skills
and expertise in a certain field.
Resources for NGOs?
Crowdfunding and Individual Giving Donations and Donor Engagement
Events and Trainings Fundraising.
Impact Communication Monitoring and Evaluation New Age Tools for
NGOs NGO Leadership NGO Technology.
Organization Management People Management Project Management
Reporting Research & Reports.
Programmatic sustainability. Programmatic sustainability is an
organization's ability to consistently create and deliver quality products and
services to customers. ...
Institutional sustainability. ...
Financial sustainability.
Examples - Donation boxes where you request small amounts of money
from the public. Collecting in-kind contributions such as used clothes,
furniture, books, vehicles or even buildings. Volunteer support where
volunteers provide their time and resources to support the work of your
organization.
Material resources in resource mobilization
These are the tangible resources (such as money, a location for the
organization to meet, and physical supplies) necessary for an organization to
run. Material resources can include anything from supplies for making protest
signs to the office building where a large nonprofit is headquartered.
Organizations main resources
Organizational resources consist of the concrete materials and tangible assets that support
programs, practice improvements, and service delivery. They encompass adequate and
stable funding, staffing, facilities and equipment, technology, informational resources, and
program materials.
major resources available in an organisation can be divided into the
following:
Machinery & building. These are the fixed resources of a company. ...
Raw material and finished goods inventory. ...
Transitional resource – Financial. ...
IP and knowledge. ...
Human resource.
Importance of material resources
It helps to improve the environment, by reducing the amount of resources that the
economy requires and diminishing the associated environmental impacts, and
sustain economic growth by securing adequate supplies of materials and
improving competitiveness.
There are 3 main elements to resource management:
The People.
The fact that people are ultimately responsible for project success is the most
important thing to remember about resource management. Your skills like
communication, leadership and emotional intelligence are vital. It’s your job to
not only provide direction but also to inspire and motivate. Great PMs combine
project management tools and people to produce a collaborative and successful
environment.
The Plan.
Every project, no matter the size, needs a plan. Before you begin the project, you
have to sit down, think through and gather up the pieces of the project, and get
them organized into a plan. Small projects might only require a list of tasks but
large projects will need lists of lists. Break it all down, consider what all will be
needed and prepare your requests for those needs.
The Time.
We’ve all heard the saying “time is money.” In project management, the easiest
way to lose control of a project is to ignore your utilization. It’s impossible to
know exactly how long each step of your plan will take to accomplish. As you
become a more experienced project manager, you should be getting closer on
your estimates but there will always be deviations. As each step is completed,
you must check and compare the time spent to your estimate. Are you on track,
behind, ahead? Two out of three of those choices require additional effort on
your part. If you are ahead, you might have to adjust resources or schedules. If
you’re behind, you better be analyzing why and letting your client know.
Difference between resources and materials
Materials are tangible objects that can be combined, moved, lined up, taken
apart and put back together again. Resources can be something you use to
achieve an objective - it can be money, materials, staff, articles, information
books etc used by a person or an organization to function effectively.
Resources
According to resource mobilization theory, a core, professional group in a social
movement organization works towards bringing money, supporters, attention
of the media, alliances with those in power, and refining the organizational
structure. The theory revolves around the central notion of how messages of
social change are spread from person to person and from group to group. The
conditions needed for a social movement are the notion that grievances shared
by multiple individuals and organizations, ideologies about social causes and
how to go about reducing those grievances.
Resources used by ngo
The literature has overwhelmingly con- centrated on two main resources:
money and labour (normally volunteer). The real picture is howe- ver
much more complex. Although money and labour are indeed the main
resource used by NGOs other resources such as legitimacy or reputation
also play a crucial role in NGO life.
According to my interviewing of NGOs themselves, NGOs need money,
labour, space, equip-
ment, information, and scientific expertise. Some less obvious resources
were also mentioned such as tax deductibility status or closeness to the
media. A closer inspection however revealed other
perhaps less obvious resources which can often be as important. These
include goodwill (good reputation), organisational learning, access to
policy makers, availability of social entrepreneurs, institutional resources
such as favourable legislation, availability of networking forums, and even
the ability to speak English.
