Project Management in Non-profit Organisation

Project management in non-profit organisation is very challenging task. As a Project manager in profit organisation, you will get all the facilities as per required to the project like fund, resources, Project management tools etc. If we talk about project in non-profit organisation, they have to rely on donations for fund, volunteers as a resources then any expert level resources for that project specific so project management is very crucial here.

Non-profit organisation can be think project like activity as they want to keep it continue forever. Suppose they start project to educate poor children then they want to keep it continue in certain period of intervals.

But, compare to project in profit organisation, in non-profit organisation they also want best plan to execute the project. Here also they need specific goal to achieve it. They have to manage scope and cost with limited talent. They have to also identify risk during the project execution and may be plan can be changed to adjust changes arise while project is under progress.

But in contrary to profit organisation, non-profit organisation can face difficulties in recruiting talents for the Project. They have to keep their feet high in scale as profit organisation. Infrastructure also can be an issue due to limited funding. Also Project manager get limited numbers of technologies and technical staffs. Stakeholder management is very critical part here, because non-profit organisations has to deal with government sectors, private agencies and other communities too. Donors, volunteers, communities can be all from different diversities or criteria so to handle them in a project is very significant part.

To summarize, Project management in non-profit organisation is somewhat difficult and challenging task then in profit organisation.