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| Chuck Stephens - Development Advisor |
OBJECTIVE
To serve as a change agent, engendering more justice and transparency in society.SUMMARY
For thirty years I have supported nonprofit organizations, community groups and small enterprises in Africa, both as a practitioner and through back-up consultation and training.PROFILE
Canadian citizen, born in Africa, 30 years in Africa , permanent resident in South Africa, post-graduate degree, bilingual (English and Portuguese), father and grandfather, divorced.I approach social service as a religious vocation and thus try to be creative, innovative and transparent (my post-graduate degree is from a seminary – Regent College in Vancouver). My focus has been on nonprofits and cooperatives (activists and entrepreneurs). My overall experience combines development practice, hands-on project management, training and advising in the planning, fundraising, implementing, reporting and M&E of development projects. I am familiar with international cooperation in both the partnership paradigm (e.g. Canadian Foodgrains Bank) and the operational programming model (e.g. World Vision).
CAPABILITY
To strengthen the human services by:
Consulting
- Facilitating strategic planning processes for NGOs
- Conducting programme evaluations
- Institutional reviews
Training
- Hands-on coaching and remote mentoring
- Short courses, seminars and workshops
- Training trainers
- Generating training tools and facilities
Project Management
- Hands-on skills development at C4L
- Training events, sometimes bundled into projects
- Occasional contract work for other NGOs
- Social innovation (e.g. PSS camps & Green coops)
Organization Leadership
- Executive Director at C4L
- C4L advancement
- Corporate governance as ex oficio Board member
Advocacy
- NGO Best Practice
- Promoting transparency and that whistle blowing is a virtue
- To quote Dorothy Day: “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable"
