Transformation Sustainability Scheme

Overview

The Transformation Sustainability Scheme (TSS) provides funding to social service agencies (SSA) for consultancy projects and project implementation in the following areas:

• People practice: Human resource functions like compensation, benefits, performance management, and talent attraction and retention.

• Volunteer management: Practices including attraction and retention of volunteers.

• Project implementation support: Manpower to implement capability-building projects under the SSA’s 3-year roadmap developed through OHDS.

Eligibility criteria

• Open to NCSS members and MSF-funded agencies.

• Agencies must complete the Organisational Health Framework for Social Service (OHFSS) Assessment.

  • Register your agency's participants for the survey.

  • Ensure registered participants complete the OHFSS Assessment.

  • Find out more about the OHFSS steps assessment process.

• Agencies must participate in the Organisational Health Diagnostic Scheme (OHDS) to receive project implementation cost funding.

Key Performance Indicators

• People practice: Improvement in staff retention.

• Volunteer management: This may include an increase in total number of volunteers engaged, increase in number of regular volunteers engaged (minimally four times a year), increase in number of volunteer hours contributed.

• Project implementation support: Meet project outcomes that are proposed by the social service agency with inputs from NCSS.

Grant quantum

Agencies can be supported with up to 80% co-funding from NCSS. Funding is capped at $200,000 in total, comprising up to $36,000 for People Practice, $24,000 for Volunteer Management and up to $140,000 for Project Implementation Support.

How to apply

Agencies may apply for the scheme via the OurSG Grants (OSG) portal.

The following documents are to be submitted:

Upon project approval

• People practice and volunteer management: Project Plan report, signed vendor agreement.

Upon project completion

• People practice: Employee Engagement Survey for Social Services (EESS) report.

• Volunteer management: Volunteer Management Maturity Matix (VMM) report.

• Project implementation support: EESS, VMM, and Digital Acceleration Index (DAI) reports.

• For all: Completion report, OHFSS report (post-implementation), and BoardPulse report

For more information

For clarifications, please refer to the frequently asked questions, or contact us at sector_capability@ncss.gov.sg.