Charity Capabilities Fund

For all exempt, Registered Charities and Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs)
>> 01. Introduction>> 02. Consultancy Grant
  • 80% Grant capped at $100,000 (Small & medium Charities)
  • 80% Grant capped at $50,000 (Large Charities)
>> 03. Shared Services
  • 50% Grant 1st year
  • 25% Grant 2nd year
  • Capped at $30,000
>> 04. Info-Communications Technology Grant
A) Digital & Cloud Solutions
  • 80% Grant capped at $40,000
  • 80% -1st Year, 50% for 2nd & 3rd year
  • Consultancy Fees @$6,000
  • Accounting, HR Solutions
  • Volunteer & Donor management and other solutions
B) IT Equipment’s, Solutions and Website
  • 4 x Laptops @$1,500 each
  • 2 printers @ $300 each
  • 1 Broadband @$1,700
  • Firewall @$3,000
  • Video & audio conferencing @$250
  • Website development @$3,000

01. Introduction

1. Funding Period : 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2027
2. Objectives of Charity Capability Fund
CCF aims to enhance and increase productivity, operational efficiency in various operation functions, governance and compliance and management capabilities of the exempt, registered charities and IPCs.
3. Eligibility Criteria
  • All exempt and registered charities and IPCs are eligible to apply for the Fund, unless otherwise indicated.
  • Applicants must not receive any funding from other government sources for the same purpose for which CCF funding is sought, unless specifically allowed.
  • Approval of applications is subject to applicants’ complete submission of their latest Annual Report, audited Financial Statements and Governance Evaluation Checklist on the Charity Portal.
  • Training courses or projects that have commenced (or purchases made, including purchase contracts/engagement letters which the charity entered into with the vendor), before the submission and approval of the CCF application, will not be eligible for funding.

02. Consultancy Grant

Consultancy projects by external consultants to review and draft policies and standard operating procedures for the charity, and in attaining organisational excellence certifications and accreditations in key governance and management areas such as:
  • Financial Management, Internal Controls, Risk Management
    We conduct review, gap analysis and develop internal controls for the financial operation of the organisation together with recommendation report.
    Drafting of Policies and Procedures from and provide the standard operating procedures for the Charity organisation.
    Improving the corporate governance to meet the auditors’ requirements and compliance.
    We setup fraud management and whistleblowing framework and policies.
    Improving the overall financial operations and corporate governance with best practices and internal control framework.

  • Board Governance
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Strategic Planning
  • Programme Management
  • Human Resource and Volunteer Management
  • Fundraising Practices
  • Disclosure and Transparency
  • Public Image/Communications
  • Digitalisation/Data Protection/Cyber Security
  • Leadership and Organisational Development
  • Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism
  • Crisis Management, Business Continuity Planning
Funding Quantum
  • For Small and Medium size Charities: Up to 80% of consultancy fee capped at $100,000 per charity over 5 years.
  • For Large Charities: Up to 80% of consultancy fee capped at $50,000 per charity over 5 years.

03. Shared Services

Clooud Consulting provide outsourcing of corporate functions such as payroll, finance, accounting, human resource and information technology functions in the following areas to support and improve backroom-operations efficiency.
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Asset Record Management
  • Journal Adjustment
  • Financial & Management Reports
  • Audit Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Information Technology Management
Funding Quantum
  • For All Charities:
    Up to 50% of monthly charges for 1st year and Up to 25% for 2nd year, Capped at $30,000 per charity.

04. Info-Communications Technology Grant

Digital and Cloud Solutions
that enhance productivity and operational efficiency of charities, in areas such as those below :

For All Charities 1: Up to 80% of the supported cost or actual expenditure, whichever is lower, and capped at $40,000 per charity.

Accounting Management

Our team specialist has experience in managing the financial operations and the accounting aspects for Charity organisations, Churches, Non-Profit, Foundations and IPCs with XERO cloud accounting and bookkeeping management. We provide professional setup of the Xero system, customising the Trainings for your charity organisation needs and provides other consulting for compliance issues.

Clooud Consulting is also a IMDA - PSG pre-approved vendor for Xero and an approved Practicing Management Consultant (PMC) for Government Grant’s.

Clooud Consulting a Xero Gold partner
Xero modules include :

1. Revenue Cycle

  • Donations
  • Operating funds and expenses

2. Purchase Cycle

  • Bills & Payments
  • Account payable
  • Purchase / Expenses

3. Banking

  • Bank Feeds with DBS, UOB, OCBC and other approved financial platforms
  • Bank statement - daily bank feed of the bank transactions
  • Auto and manual matching
  • Report on bank reconciliation

4. Inventory

  • Purchase – Stock in
  • Sales – Stock out
  • Auto tracking for stock level
  • Inventory report for stock take

5. Fixed Assets

  • Purchase – FA – FA – In
  • Setup auto yearly depreciation
  • FA report for stock take

6. Multi-Currency Auto Calculations

7. Financial Reporting

  • Profit & Loss
  • Balance Sheet
  • Cash Flow statement
  • Trial Balance
  • General Ledger
  • many other reports
Auditor could access the Charity organisation Xero account to do their annual audit. With Xero cloud system, Charities are able to keep the accounting transactions in order and meet the various compliance requirements.
  • Human Resource Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Cyber Security
  • Document Management
  • Donor Management
  • Digital Marketing/Fund-raising
  • Learning Management
  • Live Streaming
  • Remote Working
  • Visitor Management
  • Volunteer Management
  • Live Streaming

Supportable scope are:

  • 3-year funding (80% for 1st year, 50% for 2nd and 3rd year)
  • Professional Fees & Add-on (Up to $6,000) Non-supportable scope:
  • Extended warranty
  • Bank charges

Charities from the Arts & Heritage, Community, Education, Health, Sports and Others sector which are interested in adopting large scale / specialised IT systems, you may check out: Charities - Tech Subsidy (ncss.gov.sg) for funding.

For digital solutions, Social Service Agencies will continue to receive funding support under the Community Capability Trust (CCT).
Basic infrastructure components
For Small and Medium size Charities: 80% of the supported cost or actual expenditure, whichever is lower, and capped at:
  • 4 computers (Desktop or Laptop): $1,500 per equipment
  • 2 Printers: $300 per equipment
  • 1 Broadband Account: $1,700 per account
  • Website development costs to facilitate publishing of charity’s information for transparency: $3,000 per charity
  • Subscription charges of video and audio-conferencing tools: $250 per charity
  • Firewall devices: $3,000 per charity
Our partners provide the above IT equipment’s and solutions and the development of website.
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provides a holistic range of IT products and customized solutions to enable businesses of any size to achieve increased productivity and efficiency in today’s technology-driven world.

Our focus is to provide security and sustainability to protect client data and be environmentally friendly.

Our Services :

  • IT Infrastructure
  • Network Security
  • IT Support
  • E-waste Disposal
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