2021

The Importance of Volunteers as a Human Resource in NGOs

Süleyman İslamoğlu
Deputy Director General, Turkish Red Crescent

In addition to the Turkish Red Crescent’s social aid and social empowerment activities, as a national society we responded to disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and fires with our professional personnel and volunteers.  Volunteers as a line of human resource has become part of the volunteer management process of NGOs, which follow the public and…

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New Normal and Civil Society

Mustafa Tutkun
Deputy Director General, Turkish Red Crescent

The COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainties around it have become the agenda of the world for the last two years, which increases the burden on NGOs and makes things harder for them. NGOs had to learn their lessons to minimize the unfavorable impacts of the pandemic.    The health sector and health institutions had to develop…

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2021 as a Turning Point for Social Impact Investment

İlyas Haşim Çakmak
Member of the Board of Directors, CEO Kızılay Investment Inc.

The business world is a part of the transformation process the world goes through. Designing the future by solely analyzing spreadsheets is now history. We need to predict the future with what we have learned from the past. Social and economic systems interact with each other more than ever before, and that signals a new…

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Large Organizations, Big Moves

Kamile Canbay
Turkish Red Crescent Governance Office President

The Turkish Red Crescent is both a member of an international movement and is an organization that has the largest network of volunteers in Türkiye, an organization with a special place in society, and one which enriches itself with societal dynamics. It is only natural that the expectations from large organizations are big in terms…

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2021: A Year in Disaster Areas

İbrahim Özer
Director General for Disaster Management, Turkish Red Crescent

Society has established many different types of organizations over the years in order to deal with disasters. Lessons learned from previous disasters have played roles as contributing factors to progress in the development of these models. Lessons learned from the disasters and the great destructions that follow has made it essential to transition from an…

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