It’s almost midnight, and instead of sleeping, a founder is hunched over her laptop typing some version of the same question into Google: How do I automate my NGO without...

You write the report. You send it to the donor. You tick the boxes. Beneficiaries reached: 200. Sessions completed: 12. Certificates distributed: 87. But nobody asked the 87 if their...

You won the grant. You signed the agreement. And now, months in, you’re facing a hard truth: your NGO may not be able to deliver on the grant as promised....

In the nonprofit space, there are a lot of unknowns. Google searches on founder education are replete with questions such as: how to source funds for a project; how to...

Every nonprofit founder Googles this question eventually. Almost nothing they find was written for them. There’s a particular kind of dread that shows up about six months into running a...

There’s a question african founders tend to ask quietly, usually late at night after a rough day of fundraising or hiring or trying to keep an organisation alive on very...

Based on popular opinion—mostly mine—Nigeria is regarded as the humor capital of the world. Not just because of our incredibly hilarious way of thinking, but our ability to find the...

Introduction  A common mistake enveloping nonprofits in the Nigerian entrepreneurial ecosystem is the failure of succession. What many people don’t realize is that an organization does not die when they...

A Sector Built on Commitment, Vulnerable to Leadership Gaps South Africa’s nonprofit sector has long carried responsibilities that extend far beyond what many organizations were originally created to do. In...

Introduction: Why AI for Institutional Memory Matters in Modern Organisations A programme director at a nonprofit has spent seven years building donor relationships, navigating funding cycles, designing programmes, and stitching...

An ordinary morning in Nairobi, the office still opens at 8, emails still coming in, programs still existing on paper. But the founder is gone. No public announcement signalling the...

The global non-governmental organization (NGO) sector is facing an unprecedented demographic transition. Approximately 75% of current nonprofit leaders, executive directors, and founders are expected to leave their positions within the...

Leadership transitions in Nigerian nonprofits rarely announce themselves as failures. There is no dramatic moment of collapse. A resignation letter arrives. A board meeting is held. A new name is...

You have likely come across content creators who mock patronising questions about Africa’s access to electricity, clothing, or housing. Or seen satirical takes on how global media reports on the...

#ForFounders is a Kryvent series connecting nonprofit founders to the people and knowledge they need to build well. Through insights from experienced professionals across and beyond the social impact ecosystem,...

If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of a project delivery-phase and thought “What even am I to do today?”, you have encountered a “bug in the code”, a...

Every day, we see different organisations putting out a call for volunteers. But what exactly is volunteering? What do they do? Is it just a ploy to get free labour?...

The tax collector has come knocking on the nonprofit sector’s door, and this time the rules have changed entirely. When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the Nigeria Tax Act 2025...

Before Gaza — there was Biafra. The first time I heard about Biafra, I was as a child growing up in southwestern Nigeria. I remember hearing fragmented stories and tales...

The Niger Delta Region (NDR), comprising Abia State, Akwa Ibom State, Bayelsa State, Cross River State, Delta State, Edo State, Imo State, Ondo State, and Rivers State, is one of...

“We are nothing but pencils in the hand of the Creator.” This is a closing tagline every child and adult in the early 2000s knew. A tagline owned by Wale...

The flood that claimed over 150 lives and displaced over 100 more had barely begun to recede in Mokwa, Niger State, when the first wave of red-uniformed volunteers arrived. They...