Overview of the Malian
Foundation
The Malian Foundation is an Australian charitable
institution which provides free products and services
catering to the needs of charitable causes worldwide. The
Foundation focuses on supplying management consulting
services and technology solutions while circumventing the
costs put forth by for-profit consulting firms to
cash-strapped charitable causes. The Foundation operates two
programs, the Empowering Communities Program and the
Consulting Services Program, both of which are offered
without charge.
Overview of the Empowering
Communities Program
The Empowering Communities
Program, offered without charge to charitable causes
worldwide, provides management and open-source software
tools focusing on common issues surrounding non-profit
organizations such as volunteer management, fundraising,
strategic planning and donor relations. The program
currently has over 700 clients spread across 55 countries.
Overview of the Consulting
Services Program
The Consulting Services
Program provides strategy, process, information technology
and people related management consulting services, at no
charge to clients, via an international network of
experienced volunteers.
Development of the
Malian Foundation
The Malian Foundation was formally established during
January 2004 and began offering the Empowering Communities
Program to Australian charitable causes. The scope of the
Empowering Communities Program was extended to charitable
causes worldwide during March 2004 after the Foundation took
into account the numerous requests received. The Consulting
Services Program was created during November 2004 after a
pattern of specialized requests emerged which could not be
satisfied by a ‘one size fits all’ set of products.
Locations of the Malian
Foundation
The Malian Foundation is
headquartered in Australia and holds its offices within the
Sydney suburb of Crows Nest. The Foundation has also
partnered with a number of organizations around the world to
ensure its programs reflect the needs of charitable causes
worldwide.
Links with other bodies
The Malian Foundation is a
senior member of the World Association for
Non-Governmental Organizations. Senior
membership is the association's highest
membership class and is awarded at the
discretion of the International Executive
Committee to organizations having a significant
international impact. The Malian Foundation is also a member
of CIVICUS which is an international alliance of
organizations that works to strengthen citizen action and
civil society throughout the world, especially in areas
where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of
association are threatened.
