Welcome to Nutshell Care Foundation

Nutshell Care Foundation (NCF) is Non Governmental Organization that seeks to promote the general wellbeing and the development of the human being, using appropriate structures and means.

 Located in Ghana, we seek to practically and effectively initiate, implement and enhance programmes and activities that would in the long run go to benefit the communities that we choose to work with and in.

2007

Our activities are governed by the following principles individual participation involvement practicality and sustainability. Nutshell Care Foundation born out of a strong passion and a desire to see to a change in the lives of Ghanaians and the needy as a whole.

We seek to implement make a relevant difference in the lives of people in the communities we work in. including the youth especially the girls, needy and unemployed.

Our focus would be in aiding and working together to promote Good education, training and resources. We are not giving a voice to the poor; because we believe the poor have voices, we are making sure their voices are heard.

We are not giving resources to communities to develop, because we believe each community has its unique resources to develop.

All we are doing is create the enabling environment for these resources to be appreciated, and utilized.
We seek to be the most life impacting and practical NGO in Ghana within the
next 10 years. This has necessitated the development of a 10 year strategic plan.
In Summary we seek developmental and human change in every community.

The Name

The Name Nutshell Care Foundation is based on the two fold believe that:

a: Every person or community is like a nut. On the outside seemingly impossible to grow but within lies an ability to grow, succeed and change. Giving the right conditions and enabling environment.

b: That every problem can be strategically placed in a nutshell and from that angle tackled with a clear focused objective and means.

The Logo

Our logo depicts a nut with the shell in brown; this signifies our belief in harnessing local resources, talents as a means of development.

The inner portion is in green to signify productivity, fertility and creativity which is also based on the believe that every situation when place in the right context has within it a potential to develop change or cause a difference.

OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
CORE VALUES

That every Community in Ghana would reach a level of development that is most dignifying to the total and holistic progress of mankind.

To consciously target key yet pressing challenges facing various communities in Ghana, and develop practical, efficient and relevant solutions to these challenges.

This we do through the development of relevant and appropriate sustainable projects, advocacy, education, trainings, and infrastructural development ,to in the long term, protect and restore the quality of human life and development.

  • Gender sensitivity
     Evaluate both the positive and negative impact of programs women, men, girls and boys.
  • Respect
    The communities we work in are equal partners in development and not simply object of pity
  • Clarity:  we ensure that our activities can be explained with ease this usually means that we would be able to describe and involve every person in the project.
  • Understand the Need:  to succeed we seek for that one thing that is of burning importance to our target communities. Then develop projects that would inevitably solve the target areas needs rather than want.. We seek to zero in on the one area that causes our communities the most anguish or lack of development and attack that situation.

    Differentiation:  we dare to be different.  We believe in charting new courses to solve prevailing and challenging tasks.

    Frugality: Focus spending on what's critical. We appreciate speed, stealth and time in implementing our projects. We actually look out for opportunities not to spend money.

  • Leadership involvement: People and communities, in general, trust their leaders , we therefore seek for leaders who are active and care for the community and involve them in all stages of the project development and implementation,
  • Engagement:   we believe in team building.
  • Keep Records: Right from the beginning, maintain a clear comprehensive log and record of all the things we do.
  •  Build trust: we seek to build trust with the community that you are working, both within the NGO, and outside.
  • Maintain proactive transparency and accountability in all your activities and transactions, and keep open lines of communication

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The members of the board, as a group, have trustee and legal responsibility for the actions and operation of the organization. Their scope of responsibilities include amongst others:

  • financial management
  • planning
  • programme
  • resource development (fund raising)
  • human resource management
  • information management
  • marketing and public relations

Legal Responsibilities of the Board of Directors:

Duty of Care: board member has the duty to exercise reasonable care when he or she makes a decision for the organization. Reasonable care is what an "ordinarily prudent" person in a similar situation would do.

Duty of Loyalty: A board member must never use information gained through his/her position for personal gain; and must always act in the best interests of the organization.

Duty of Obedience: A board member must be faithful to the organization's mission. He or she cannot act in a way that is inconsistent with the organization's goals. The board member is trusted by the public to manage donated funds to fulfill the organization's mission.

Management would see to the day to day running and implementation of the foundations activities, projects and programmes. It would be headed by a managing director who would work with a management board. Management would report to the board of directors. The managing director and a representative of the staff would form a part of the board of directors.  

Managing director

Programs officer/ coordinator

Financial controller

Staff coordinator

Human resource manager

Volunteer’s coordinator

NCF relies on a mixture of local and “imported” staff.

All our staff receives professional training in: development, cultural sensitivity, cross-cultural communication, and other relevant topics.

our PROGRAMMES

NCF seeks amongst its objectives to create and imitate programmes and projects that are sustainable and relevant to the communities in which we work.

We believe that every single project undertaken should in the long run be self sufficient, in that, it becomes self funding and duplicable elsewhere. In this vein we seek as much as possible to involve the communities we work with and encourage active participation we also seek to crate in them an awareness of Business and Organizational exposure. We seek also to create in them a “give back” spirit, where everyone that benefits from our projects in turn must contribute to the growth and sustainability of the project.  We have therefore package or segmented our programmes into the following:

  •  R-educate
  •  I-Develop
  •  U-Sponsor
R-Education
I-Develop
U-Sponsor

This programme looks at RELEVANT education of the various communities we target. Giving them education that is practical to their community and relevant to their peculiar situation. Our R-education takes a look at the prevailing situation, analyses the present educational system available and seeks to initiate and develop a system that would tackle the core problem observed and most effectively transmit the knowledge gain to the community in the most practical means. These include, seminars, setting up of reading clubs, trainings, workshop and adult education.

I-Develop is our unique term coined to tackle infrastructural development in the various target communities.  It is based on the belief that human progress and quality of life  goes hand in hand with infrastructural development. It is therefore an objective of NCF to actively pursue infrastructural developments in the communities we work in. these developments include Building of latrines, School Blocks, Training Centers, and Community places of recreation.

U- sponsor looks at sponsoring individuals in various communities over a period of time to undergo Formal educational training. This is to aid bright but needy Individuals, talented and creative individuals, handicapped  and etc. special focus would be given to covering the total educational needs of the individual over a given period of time, with the objective of ensuring that he or she succeeds to the point where he would also take up another person and sponsor. This would mean that there is a chain reaction in place. U- sponsor does not only look at the financial need of individuals but tackles other academic needs such as hostel facilities educational materials etc. periodically U-sponsor would make donations of relevant educational materials to schools and training institutes in targeted communities.

Another key feature of U-sponsor is various donations that we would undertake for orphanages and care homes. In addition to this with the objective of ensuring sustainability, we would package these donations in forms of projects that would ensure a continued means of funding and income generation to the care or foster home. E.g. donating a small farmland for the foster home to undertake farming.

All our projects would follow the following profile in summary:

 Project profile:

(a) Title of the project.
(b) Aims and objectives along with estimation of targeted beneficiaries, expected qualitative improvement, etc.
(c) Strategy/action plan, details of training required, availability of volunteers and their skills, etc.
(d) Financial requirement, sources of funding and financial assistance required.
(e) Duration of the project and sustainability after support is completed
(f) Monitoring and evaluation indicators

FUNDING

Our funding needs would be mainly tackling long term project. And include Research and pre preparation, Training, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

NCF seeks to move from charity to self funding status in the long term. We seek to draw our funds from: internal as well as external sources.

(a) Internal Sources

Sales (such as sales of greeting cards, calendars etc.).
Investments
Community Philanthropists and
Individual Donations.

 (b) External Sources (within Ghana)

  1. Grant from the Government (Various funding schemes operated by different Ministries of the Government)
  2. Donations in kind, such as, medicines, books, food items, etc.;
  3. Private institutional or grants from Corporate Bodies and  Industrial houses
  4. Sponsorship for an ticket collections from fund raising events such as charity shows, musical nights, etc.

Outside Ghana (Foreign Sources)

(a)  Bilateral funding;
(b) Multilateral funding;
(c) Private institutional funding;
(d) Overseas non-resident communities.