Articles written By Albert Kuruvila

Albert currently works as a lecturer in the Social Work programme at University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is currently conducting PhD level research on Management and Governance of Non Governmental Social Service Organisations in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Originally from India, Albert has also lectured in social work and has been a consultant to many non-profit organisations.

Board Performance & Metrics

How To Perform a Self-Health Check-up for NFPs

“How do we know that we are doing well?” “Do we really need to ask and pay someone else to say that we are a healthy organisation or an organisation in need of help?” “We did ask someone else before about whether we are performing well or not, and we realized that we knew all the answers when the outsider started to talk about the solutions we were searching for. We didn’t exactly know the questions though.