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Our NGO Partnership

Launched in 2007, Eden McCallum’s NGO Partnership has delivered over 180 pro bono consulting projects to help leading non-profit organisations develop their capabilities, improve the effectiveness of their frontline programmes, and better deliver on their missions.

Our NGO Partnership was created to leverage our most valuable asset - our consultants - and bring that talented resource to bear on the most pressing social and environmental issues.

Engaging with our communities, consultants and colleagues

The NGO Partnership gives our independent consultants and in-house analysts the opportunity to work on valuable projects that drive social and environmental impact, and where success is measured in terms of lives and landscapes touched and changed.

Our NGO Partners are non-profit organisations whose causes we passionately support and with whom we build long-term relationships which enable real impact. We collaborate on strategy, operations, organisation and transformation projects. From changing the life outcomes of the most disadvantaged young people to supporting global conservation initiatives, our pro bono work is diverse, challenging and fulfilling.

Our NGO Partners

Real impact

Over the last 15+ years, we have delivered over 180 projects for over 80 charities and charitable initiatives globally.

Our pro bono work effects real change.  From an analyst building a financial model to help a charity better plan its use of resources to a senior partner offering expert advice on strategy, board governance or organisational design, CEOs tell us time and again that our insight and recommendations lead to tangible progress and positive change.

Our pro bono work

Fundraising acceleration for an education charity
Accelerated fundraising for an organisation with bold ambitions to change the educational and life outcomes of some of the UK’s most disadvantaged young people.
We designed and populated a new fundraising management system that stepped up the charity’s fundraising capability by focusing and facilitating their efforts, and significantly improved their pipeline of high-potential funders.
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Improving technology sector access and diversity
Supported the expansion plans of a digital skills education charity focused on widening access to tech careers for low income, female and ethnic minority young people.
Expansion to a new 6th form facility formed a key part of the charity’s ambitious growth plans. We worked with management to identify the most promising schools to target in the new catchment area. Through desk research and internal interviews, we helped management develop a strategically considered and tiered outreach plan that fed into a broader outreach strategy for the organisation.
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Governance design for global conservation prize
Designed the governance of a prestigious global environmental prize, to support its successful transition from within a leading philanthropic foundation.
Conducting in-depth research with multiple stakeholders to determine the criteria for successful governance and define possible options, we agreed and detailed a governance structure which would enable the newly independent entity to realise its global ambitions.
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Board toolkit to support action on climate change
Developed a publicly available toolkit to help boards drive measurable action on climate change.
Combining insights gleaned from companies leading on climate change with core strategy and change management frameworks, the pragmatic, action-oriented board toolkit was launched to support non-executive directors across Europe.
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Targeting investment in disadvantaged young people
Collaborated with our NGO partner Impetus to define how best to target funding and support for disadvantaged young people at risk of falling outside mainstream schooling.
Alternative Provision (AP) is education for pupils who do not attend mainstream school, for reasons including exclusion and illness. Our team worked to define the AP market’s size, structure and cost drivers, to identify trends, participants, current outcomes and funding sources, and from there to determine with the Impetus team where and how to focus their limited resources.
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Strategic plan for a growing environmental initiative
Developed a strategic and operational plan to accelerate the impact of an international initiative that raises awareness of nature-based solutions’ role in mitigating the effects of climate change.
Based in reaffirmed purpose and outcomes, and with a clear line of sight to funding, we worked to define the organisation’s 5-year strategy, mandate and governance. Together we went on to design the operating model and resourcing needed to enable successful delivery, and to develop the business case and implementation plan.
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180+
projects
80+
charities
13k+
hours donated
They flushed out the key priorities for the Board to address. Everyone has felt engaged in the process which is really important.
Alastair Pringle, CEO Venture Trust
We have been so impressed by the rigour and quality of the research and modelling work; we are left with a tool that has changed the way we approach fundraising – more targeted, efficient and effective at bringing much needed funding with less effort.
Adam Tedesco,Deputy CEO, Olive Academies
For me, being able to do this kind of work from time to time is one of the biggest advantages of working on a freelance basis.
Lynn Woods Strang, Consultant
Working with such committed clients and teammates makes the work immensely rewarding and satisfying, and the charities are wonderfully appreciative of our support. After every engagement I feel I have contributed to making a real difference.
Frances Mann, Consultant
...utterly professional support all provided pro bono… understanding and sensitivity and unrivalled commitment
Catherine Roche, CEO of Place2Be