NGOs : Get global
visibility for your work
From 15th May 2012, IndianNGOs.com opens National Membership with
Global Visibility and District Membership with National Visibility.
Both these memberships are by invitation only. To get an invitation,
send a two para profile of your NGO with a minimum of one donor
reference to Rohini
NGOs : Get free listing districtwise
From 5th to 15th May , IndianNGOs.com is opening
about 20 000 NGOs district wise. The plans are to open 10 000
NGOs per month from June to get about 50 000 NGOs by August 15,
2012. These will be shared district wise to help NGOs, volunteers,
donors and organisations planning to offer commercial deal with
these NGOs. To ensure your NGO goes online, register free on our
global portal DevelopedNation.org
Capacity Building of Middle Level
NGOs
IndianNGOs.com has already worked on basic capacity
building programmes for NGOs. From 7th June 2012, we plan to
offer a comprehensive capacity building package to Urban and
District Level NGOs on multiple management development and HR
issues.
Capacity Building
of Larger NGOs on
CSR beyond philanthropy
The concept of CSR Tree helps corporates look at CSR beyond
philanthropy. The same concept will be promoted to larger NGOs
to understand how they can think of building partnerships with
corporates on aspects beyond philanthropy. This package too
gets promoted to NGOs from 7th June 2012.
Funding Agencies across the world
DevelopedNation.org will open its platform to Funding Agencies
across the world to share their country wise and issue wise
programmes. Visit
Mozembique as a sample country
Forming an NGO
Public charitable trusts can be established
for a number of purposes, including the relief of poverty, education,
medical relief, provision of facilities for recreation, and
any other object of general public concern and utility.
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Societies Act
Societies are governed by the Societies Registration Act 1860,
which is an all-India Act. Many states, however, have variants
on the Act. Societies are similar in character to trusts, although
there a few essential differences.
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Trust Act
In the State of Maharashtra, the legislation governing Public
Trust is Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. Similar legislation
by the same name prevails in the State of Gujarat also. This
is because; the Act was passed when Maharashtra and Gujarat
were one.
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Section 25
According to section 25(1)(a) and (b) of the Indian Companies
Act, 1956, a section-25 company can be established ‘for promoting
commerce, art, science, religion, charity or any other useful
object’, provided the profits, if any, or other income is applied
for promoting only the objects of the company and no dividend
is paid to its members
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NGO Certifications
35 AC
NGO can register itself u/s 35AC from the Central Government
of India. Potential donors get 100% exemption for the amount
donated towards 35AC. All NGOs should avail the advantage of
this provision to attract potential donors.
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80 G
Registration under section 80G of Income Tax Act provides benefit
to NGOs. If NGO has 80G certificate with them, donor gets financial
benefit in his/her taxable amount of their income.
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FCRA
Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (FCRA) was enacted
in the year 1976 with the prime objective of regulating the
acceptance and utilization of foreign contribution and foreign
hospitality by persons and associations working in the important
areas of national life.
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Income Tax
In order to claim any exemption, an
NGO should make an application u/s 12A to the Commissioner of
Income Tax of concerned district for registration of the NGO.
Such application is to be made in Form 10A
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PAN Number
All organizations which are required to furnish return of income
under section 139(4A) and (4C) should apply for a Permanent
Account Number (PAN). As the name suggests, it is a taxpayer’s
permanent identification number allotted by the income-tax department.
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TAN Number
Under the Income-tax Act, every person making payment or crediting
income of specified types to another person is required to deduct
a specific proportion of amount payable/creditable at the time
of making payment or giving credit, whichever is earlier and
deposit the sum so deducted.
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Finance Act 2009
Foreig
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Tax Amendments
According to Section 2(15), ‘charitable purpose’,
includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief, and
the advancement of any other object of general public utility
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Capacity Building
Vision
Vision is one important pillar of organization that continuously
guides people associating with organization. Many NGOs and voluntary
organizations have started to define their vision and mission
statements as a living document of the organization.
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Mission
Mission is the important pillar of organization that continuously
guides people associating with organization. Many NGOs and voluntary
organizations have started to define their vision and mission
statements as a living document of the organization.
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Governance
“Good governance means the effective management of an
NGO's resources in a manner that is open, transparent, accountable,
equitable and responsive to people's needs. The rule of law,
transparency, accountability and effectiveness of NGO management
are all essential components of good governance”.
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Fund Raising
Almost every voluntary or non-profit organization requires money
either to support its existing activities or to expand and improve
it services. Fund raising has no option other than hard work,
but if the voluntary agencies have a cause or programmes that
deserve support and it is willing to really work at it, it can
raise considerable awareness, goodwill and money.
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Human Resources
Leave Structure
The NGO must have a clear policy on leaves covering (1) Type
and number of paid leaves for its employees, (2) Complimentary
leaves to employees who work on official holidays and (3) Deduction
from salary of employees for non paid leaves
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Sexual Harassement
While exact statistics of the number of women to men working
in NGOs in India is not known, we can safely assume that significant
proportion of workforce and volunteers in NGOs, CBOs and most
of the workforce or participants in SHGs are women.
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KRAs
Based on the vision, mission and sustainable programmes, every
NGO must have a clear organisation chart. This chart needs to
be displayed on the organisation notice board.
Typical organisation chart should share designation for each
person on the chart and the relationship or reporting structure
for all the people on the chart.
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Documentation
Annual Report
The purpose of an Annual Report is to ensure that your organization
communicates its past performance and future goals in a clear
and concise way so as to convince and attract your shareholders
and donors to continue their contributions.
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Correspondence
In day-to-day activities of any NGO, ideas, thoughts and other
information regarding the NGO is shared with others. This information
is dispersed among inside as well as outside stakeholders of
organization.
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Filing Returns
Section 12A states two conditions for availing the exemption
available under the Act, the first condition is regarding application
for registration and the second condition is regarding audit
by an accountant as defined in the Explanation below sub-section
(2) of section 288.
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Financial Documentations
Financial Management (FM) is an integral part of NGO management.
Financial resources are nothing but the fuel which is required
to stay the organization alive. FM can be broadly divided in
to two different parts such as
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Proposal Writing
Proposal writing is very essential for the fund raising process,
but it can be intimidating for the beginner. Well prepared proposal
provides focus, articulation and credibility to a project.
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Report Writing
Many people agonise over writing reports, other people enjoy
the opportunity it gives them to reflect. Many people do not
look forward to reading reports because they are often too long
and unclear.
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