Governance and Management

Noolaham Foundation's main decision making body is the Executive Team. Regular Executives Meetings are held to discuss on going activities, issues and to plan Noolaham Foundations continuous improvement and growth. Most Executive Meetings take place through skype and open for all to attend. Executive team members are building an Institutional Information Base to guide the Foundation's future decision making and administration.

Noolaham's program and other activities are managed on an ongoing basis using the Noolaham Foundation's Project Management Plan. Teams are responsible for projects. Projects are divided into tasks, and tasks and deliverables are managed using a project management system.

An Advisory Board exists to provide expert advise, and to help in developing the Roadmap. Public meetings and events are organized to help deliver our services to the public, and to gather their input and support.

Legal

Noolaham Foundation is a registered non profit organization in Sri Lanka. Noolaham : Canada, Noolaham : United Kingdom and Noolaham : Australia are registered chapters and independent organizations. Noolaham Foundation operate in a transparent accountable manner.

Policies

The Noolaham Foundation policies are being developed to guide the Foundation towards achieving its organizational objectives. Noolaham Foundation's policies and guidelines are developed guide organizational activities, clarify principles, and to otherwise further Noolaham Foundations objectives.

Our foundational organizational document is the Articles of Association. Please also refer to the Resolutions for additional information.

• Publications Policy
• Information Policy

Strategy Planning

Long term as well as short term strategies are developed by the Executive Team.
Noolaham Foundation Target for 2015 January.

• Increase the total number of printed documents to 100,000 and thousands of non-printed documents like Audio, video and photos.
  
• Start a web archiving program to preserve born digital documents.
  
• Start a supportive Research Institute externally for support researchers, scholars, historians, students social scientists and activists.
  
• Build an active movement by including various people in Srilankan tamil society.
  
• Increase other Information service activities.
  

Please refer our Roadmap for an outline of the next 3 years.

Executives Meeting

The executive members of the Foundation and various others join the weekly meetings on Saturdays. The meeting is held via skype and specific topics are discussed in each meeting.

Minutes of important meetings are documented at Executives Meeting page.

Project Management

Project Management Plan describes overall noolaham foundation management plan of the activities. Project management system is created for every single activity. Internal Wiki is other management related system for Noolaham Foundation. Its weekly, monthly, quarterly or mid-year reporting system.

Operational Management

The day to day activities of the Foundation are currently being managed by various volunteers. Program Officer and Program assistants are responsible for day to day activities related to specific programs.

In future, overall operational management will be managed by General Manager.

Fellowships

Noolaham Foundation is a youth driven non-profit foundation. Our activities are carried our by volunteers and a small staff. However, there are needs for targeted work by individuals of particular expertise. The Noolaham Foundation Fellowship program offers opportunities for volunteers, students, and industry professionals to work with the Noolaham Foundation on targeted projects with well defined scope and time frame.