Contributors

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"