Associação CLIP – Resources e Desenvolvimento (CLIP – Resources and Development Association) is a non-profit association founded in October 2012, from a locally based associative movement in Alta de Lisboa with the mission is to promote and energize initiatives that strengthen the work of people and entities that promote community development.
With 192 members and around 40 partner organizations in the current, CLIP is expertise in training and workshops on associative environment such as project management, fundraising and sustainability strategies, developing during the last two years the Qualis Project – Quality Seal for NGOs, whose objective has been to strengthen the sustainability of NGOs by training them, bringing them closer to potential financiers and granting them the Qualis Seal.
Headquartered in Coimbra, it seeks to shape and influence public policies in the areas of Vocational Training and Employment of PwD and enhance the endogenous capacities of its members through trainings, benchmarking and quality management activities, and dissemination and production scientific knowledge in the area socio professional inclusion.
RådgivningsDanmark (RD) is a danish non-profit association that works to ensure quality social counseling services for people in complicated life situations.
In the current 75 members, all non-profit organizations, offer free social advice and services as certification according to this standard, quality management training, knowledge sharing and tools to work with and around their own standard to guarantee quality among organizations that work with a quality standard specially developed for social advisory services or helplines in civil society
The Institute for the Quality of NGOs – ICONG, founded in May 2008, is a non-profit organization and is the result of the will of partner organizations to work for the promotion and strengthening of a culture of quality among the small-medium entities of the Spanish Third Sector.
Among the services they provide, they carry out certification processes through the NGO Quality Standard, a reference for quality management in the social sector, creating as well tools to improve transparency and good governance and a long list of references, guides and work models aimed at facilitating NGOs with the best management of resources, effectiveness and efficiency and results orientation, putting people at the center.
Civil Society Europe brings together 22 European platforms of national and regional civil society organizations in different topics like, education, culture or social and animal rights, among others. They contribute to the EU’s recognition of the role and value of independent and plural CSOs in building and fostering a democratic society based on fundamental rights, the development of a strong and independent civil society and effective civil dialogue.
CSE has also been working together with its members in areas relevant to quality management, such as mutual learning exchanges and training on the accountability of civil society organizations, from transparency requirements, codes of conduct for the board of directors and the organization’s staff, integrating gender equality until addressing the environmental impact of policies.