JA Worldwide: Project Management for Good

Howard Leong is a JA alumnus from Malaysia and the Research Strategist at JA Worldwide, leading The JA Institute. He is majoring in economics at the University of Calgary and studied AI and machine learning at the University of Oxford. He is the architect of the JA Malaysia Mall, an organized online marketplace of JA’s student-run businesses, for which he won Global Student Prize 2021, a global award.

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Welcome to The PMI Educational Foundation’s student project manager series. In support of PMIEF’s global youth serving non-profit partnerships, PMI and PMIEF will be highlighting the exceptional student project managers from regions all across the world.

We’re thrilled to continue this series with a contribution written by Howard Leong, a Junior Achievement alumnus from Malaysia and the Research Strategist at JA Worldwide, a PMIEF partner leading The JA Institute. Here he shares his experience with JA and the impact the PMIEF partnership has had.

The non-profit industry and civil service sector is cyclical, often susceptible to shifts in donor priorities and the resulting financial constraints. In a global survey rom CAF America, 50 percent of nonprofits expected revenue drops of at least 20 percent and a modelling showed that 22,000 nonprofits were projected to close down due to COVID-19, which is as volatile as the 22 percent cut in marketing budget during the pandemic, as reported by Gartner.

The complications of a global pandemic is exacerbating the nonprofit sector's financial strain, as giving—already at a 40-year low of just 1.7% of individuals' disposable personal income—further declines. This challenges nonprofits to become more agile, resilient and effective in managing projects.

The Project Management Institute …

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