A well known Dutch management training center based in the Netherlands, gives trainings to young managers (typically a group has 10-15 men and woman) in work skills. The training for Dutch young executives called YEP comes to Istanbul for a training in
international/intercultural communications 2-4 times per year. An important part of the training is that these Dutch managers have to give free organizational advice to a Turkish start-up or NGO during the five days they are in Istanbul. During the week the Dutch
managers will get feedback from their trainers about the way they communicate amongst themselves and with the NGO. The Turkish case organizations in turn can benefit from the varied knowledge (IT, marketing, policy, finance, organizational advice) that the
managers bring in. Therefore both parties benefit from this exchange.
Even though the managers are usually from the businesses side (in some groups there are also managers from Dutch governmental and health related organizations) the Dutch management training center wants to advice NGO’s instead of established companies because companies can hire paid consultants and the Dutch management training center does not want to create false competition within Turkey by offering services for free that companies normally pay for. NGO’s and start-ups cannot hire consultants because they usually lack the money. The Dutch managers make smaller groups that deal with the various questions that the NGO wants them to give advice about. During the week the managers make another appointment with their case-organization to ask further questions and have more dialogue. At the end of the week the NGO receives the advice from the managers.

For this Dutch management training center I am looking for NGO’s or charities that:
1. have an English or Dutch speaker and is not to far away from Taksim or a metro line;
2. have an organizational question (about organization, marketing, fundraising, policy, networking, succession or other topics that would benefit from advice) that they themselves feel needs to be solved;
3. can give a presentation in English on one of the data the groups are in Istanbul.
My task is not only to find the NGO, but also to help them present their ‘case’ (organizational profile and questions) to all the Dutch managers. Often I need to advise the organizations about the way they can formulate their mission or create a power-point or other type of presentation for a foreign group. Because funding is not available for most NGO’s in Turkey they never before had to write a report or give a formal account of their overall aims. But for the training 100 slides listing all projects of one NGO do not  make an effective case. After the training I also follow up on what the NGO’s do with the advice and help them if needed.