The Pro Bono Coaching Project for Non-profit Organization is a pilot collaboration of the Hong Kong International Coaching Community (HKICC) and Asian Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC). It has been launched in May 2010 and is expected to be finished in September 2010. This joint venture’s objective is to promote coaching to the public and to enable the senior executives of non-profit organizations to be more effective, efficient and sustainable with the provision of voluntary one on one coaching service.

The response of HKICC members participating in this project was very encouraging. We have eight active committee members, including experienced and new coaches, working together for briefing session, chemistry-check sessions, coaching agreements and evaluation form, etc., in order to provide professional and quality service to our clients.

The project cannot be smoothly launched without the coaches’ voluntary contribution of their time and putting their heart into the project. We must give our hearty thanks to Jane Strangward, Oliver Love, Charlie Liang, Gudren Gkittel Thong, Eva Luk, Fanny Cheung, and Sally Dellow. Some of them, who are used to coaching executives in corporations shared in the briefing session on 12 May 2010 that they would like to gain the new experience of coaching senior executives in non-profit organizations and would like to support the senior executives, whose change will lead to helping more people they served.

We must also highlight that the number of coaches that applied for the project is outnumbered the number of clients in this pilot. We hope those coaches would contribute themselves later in other projects. The participating agencies of this pilot include: Mother Choice, PLAN International, English Language Institute in China (ELIC) and International Care Ministries (ICM). We, the sub—committee, are planning to spread the news of the impact of coaching to the non-profit organizations.

With the mission to spread coaching to the community and enlighten other people’s lives, we hope that more HKICC members will join us as project committee members or voluntary coaches in future.