I love that you mentioned that you planned a comprehensive exit checklist so your non-profit organization can be assured that your project can be sustained by local authorities without your assistance. My friend has started a non-profit organization before that focuses on helping the homeless people in our city. She thinks that with proper coordination with the local council, the organization can now take its exit and leave the consistency action plan to the local governing unit. I’ll share your tip about exit checklists with her when we have brunch this weekend. Perhaps I should also advise her to get help from a lawyer who specializes in nonprofit dissolution and shut down. Thanks!
Yes, i am working on it- There are issues to consider well before exit, for instance how will resources be replaced (Including legal advice as you mention), How will capacities be sustained, what partnerships are needed to continue service delivery, is this activity something the community is interested in sustaining or is this something that was a donor or an ngo preference, what benchmarks are tracking readiness to exit and so forth. I will be doing some online presentations when I finish this summer. I will post that link here as well as on http://www.valuingvoices.com. Cheers!
COMMENTS
BY JULIA ABEDIAN
ON June 22, 2018 06:16 AM
Can you provide a link to the checklist? Thank you.
BY Jindra Cekan
ON March 28, 2019 09:24 AM
So true! We leave projects all the time without having anything more than a hope that results are sustained. It’s terrific that you are including an ex-post ‘oversight’ period, especially 2-5 years out. Great that Water for People is learning (and teaching us) about exit. Please do share your checklist. I’d like to recommend two sources: INTRAC on exit principles (https://www.intrac.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Praxis-Note-70-EveryChilds-Responsible-Exit-Principles-Final-Lucy-Morris-Head-of-Programmes.pdf and our evaluability checklists before doing an ex-post Sustained and Emerging Impacts Evaluation including planning that needs to begin when the project does (http://valuingvoices.com/building-the-evidence-base-for-post-project-evaluation-a-report-to-the-faster-forward-fund/). Cheers!
BY Saharsha
ON November 15, 2019 02:43 AM
Hi can you send us the checklist?
BY Levi Armstrong
ON May 18, 2020 01:23 AM
I love that you mentioned that you planned a comprehensive exit checklist so your non-profit organization can be assured that your project can be sustained by local authorities without your assistance. My friend has started a non-profit organization before that focuses on helping the homeless people in our city. She thinks that with proper coordination with the local council, the organization can now take its exit and leave the consistency action plan to the local governing unit. I’ll share your tip about exit checklists with her when we have brunch this weekend. Perhaps I should also advise her to get help from a lawyer who specializes in nonprofit dissolution and shut down. Thanks!
BY Jindra cekan, Phd
ON May 19, 2020 01:06 AM
Yes, i am working on it- There are issues to consider well before exit, for instance how will resources be replaced (Including legal advice as you mention), How will capacities be sustained, what partnerships are needed to continue service delivery, is this activity something the community is interested in sustaining or is this something that was a donor or an ngo preference, what benchmarks are tracking readiness to exit and so forth. I will be doing some online presentations when I finish this summer. I will post that link here as well as on http://www.valuingvoices.com. Cheers!
BY Thomas Sheridan
ON March 14, 2022 11:18 PM
Hi, can you please share your checklist?
BY Jindra Cekan, PhD
ON March 16, 2022 08:48 AM
I am delighted to share our checklist for sustained exit: https://valuingvoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Exit-For-Sustainability-Checklists-Dec2020-2.pdf