The Charity Core
The Charity Core

Building Grant-Ready Organisations | Strengthening Systems | Delivering Real Impact.

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Building Grant-Ready Organisations | Strengthening Systems | Delivering Real Impact.

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About Us

Who we are

The Charity Core is a social-impact consulting and capacity-building organisation that helps nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organisations become credible, fundable, and operationally strong.


We work with organisations that are doing important work — but need stronger systems, clearer positioning, and better funding readiness to grow their impact.


Across Africa and beyond, many NGOs struggle not because their mission is weak, but because their structures, governance, and reporting do not meet donor standards. That gap is what we exist to fix.


The Charity Core supports organisations to:

  • Build the governance, safeguarding, and accountability systems donors require
  • Clarify their mission and design fundable programmes
  • Strengthen internal operations and teams
  • Track, report, and communicate real impact


We combine strategic thinking, operational expertise, and funding-side insight to help organisations move from good intentions to sustainable, fundable impact.

Our Services

Governance & Organisational Development

Governance & Organisational Development

Governance & Organisational Development

• Governance frameworks

• Policies and compliance

• Organisational structures

• Board strengthening

• Donor-readiness support

Operations & Systems Strengthening

Governance & Organisational Development

Governance & Organisational Development

• SOPs and workflows

• Programme systems

• MEL frameworks

• Reporting systems

• Operational efficiency

Training & Capacity Building

Governance & Organisational Development

HR, Talent & Recruitment Support

• Leadership development

• NGO management training

• Staff and volunteer training

• Workshops and clinics

• Governance & compliance clinics

HR, Talent & Recruitment Support

HR, Talent & Recruitment Support

HR, Talent & Recruitment Support

• Role design & job descriptions

• Team structure mapping

• Recruitment support (shortlisting, interviews, screening)

• Onboarding frameworks

• Performance management systems

• HR process development

• Capacity-building for HR teams

Programme & Proposal Support

HR, Talent & Recruitment Support

Programme & Proposal Support

• Concept notes

• Full proposals

• Logframes and theories of change

• Programme design

• Donor reporting templates

Our Partners

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at thecharitycore@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

The Charity Core provides strategic, operational, and funding-readiness consulting for nonprofits, foundations, social enterprises, and impact-driven organisations.

We focus on helping organisations become credible, fundable, and operationally strong — not just visible.

Our work covers:

  • Grant readiness & donor compliance
    Ensuring organisations meet the governance, safeguarding, financial control, and accountability standards funders require.
  • Strategic positioning & programme design
    Clarifying what an organisation does, who it serves, and how its work should be structured to attract funding and partnerships.
  • Funding strategy & proposal support
    Helping organisations identify the right opportunities, shape strong narratives, and improve their chances of approval.
  • Monitoring, evaluation & impact systems (M&E)
    Setting up outcome tracking, learning, and reporting frameworks that protect credibility and support long-term funding.
  • HR, talent & organisational structure
    Defining roles, recruiting the right people, and building teams that can actually deliver what funders are paying for.
  • Capacity building & institutional strengthening
    Training leadership and staff to operate at professional, donor-ready standards.

We don’t just help organisations look good on paper.

We help them work properly, qualify for funding, and sustain impact.

The Charity Core is led by consultants with hands-on experience across African and international nonprofit, development, and social-impact environments.

We have worked directly with:

  • Registered NGOs, foundations, and schools
  • Organisations seeking institutional and foundation funding
  • Teams needing governance, safeguarding, M&E, and compliance systems that donors require

Our experience includes supporting organisations through:

  • Donor-grade proposals and reporting
  • Funding readiness and compliance
  • The design of governance, safeguarding, and accountability structures used by:
     
    • Institutional donors
    • Corporate foundations
    • International grantmakers

We are not theorists.

We work inside real organisations with real constraints — and build systems that withstand donor scrutiny.

In addition, The Charity Core operates through a core advisory team supported by a network of specialist consultants, resource persons, and independent professionals assembled according to each engagement.

Rather than using a single fixed team, we build the right team for the right job.

Depending on the project, this may include:

  • Sector specialists (education, disability, safeguarding, finance, M&E, etc.)
  • Programme designers and policy experts
  • Independent monitors and evaluators
  • Local and international resource persons

All work is coordinated and quality-controlled through The Charity Core to ensure:

  • Professional standards
  • Donor-grade credibility
  • Clear accountability

Our approach combines:

  • Strategic thinking
  • Operational reality
  • Funding-side expectations

This allows us to bridge the gap between what organisations do and what donors will fund.

The Charity Core specialises in mission-driven sectors where funding, compliance, and impact measurement matter most, including:

  • Education (formal, inclusive, and vocational)
  • Youth & women’s empowerment
  • Disability inclusion & safeguarding
  • Community development
  • Health, welfare, and social protection
  • Faith-based and values-driven organisations
  • Social enterprises & CSR-linked initiatives

We focus on sectors where:

  • Impact must be proven
  • Risk must be managed
  • And funding depends on credibility, not just passion

If an organisation serves people, communities, or public good — and wants to be taken seriously by funders — it fits within our scope.

Yes — but they are not the service.

The Charity Core offers select toolkits and structured resources for organisations that need a starting point or want to self-implement. These include items like governance frameworks, safeguarding structures, M&E models, and organisational setup guides.

However, these are designed to support — not replace — proper organisational development.

Most organisations don’t fail because they lack files.

They fail because they lack systems.

Our consulting work focuses on:

  • making sure those systems actually exist
  • work in real life
  • and stand up to donor scrutiny

The resources we sell are based on the same frameworks we use in consulting, but the real value lies in how they are implemented, adapted, and governed inside an organisation.

If you need plug-and-play paperwork, we’re not the right fit.

If you want to build something donors trust — that’s what we do.

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