management resources for community media

CIVICUS Better Communications and Planning Toolkits

CIVICUS has produced a range of toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of communication and planning areas. From learning how to write a funding proposal to developing more effective action planning skills, the toolkits provide many useful tips and ideas to help strengthen organisations.

Many of the toolkits are available in English, French & Spanish.

- Writing Effectively & Powerfully
- Writings Within Your Organisation
- Producing Your Own Media ? ? (Word) or (PDF)
- Handling the Media
- Promoting Your Organisation
- Planning Overview
- Action planning
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Strategic Planning
- Developing a Financing Strategy
- Financial Controls and Accountability
- Writing a Funding Proposal
- Budgeting

Writing a Funding Proposal - PDF

This toolkit deals with planning and researching a funding proposal before you write it; how to write the proposal; and the follow-up required once it is written and sent off. There is also an example of a funding proposal to guide you. You will find advice on what you need to know about donors, and what you need to know about your own project or organisation before you write a funding proposal. You will also find guidelines on what to put into your proposal and how to write it, and references to other CIVICUS toolkits that can help you.

Also in Word

Rédiger une proposition de financement (Word) ou (PDF)

Redacción de una propuesta financiera (Word) o (PDF)

non-profit guides - grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations
Non-profit guides are free web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups.

Our guides are designed to assist established non-profits through the grant-writing process.

Overview:

* guidelines: grant-writing tips

* preliminary proposal: overview
o sample inquiry letter

* full proposal: overview
o components
o sample cover letter
o sample cover sheet
o sample budget

* sample proposals: overview
o private rfp: sample foundation rfp
o private proposal: sample foundation grant application
o public rfp: sample government rfp
o public proposal: sample government grant application

* links: grantmakers, grantseeking resources & glossaries

GUIDELINES FOR WRITING REPORTS

REPORT WRITING IN GENERAL
• Preparation for report writing
• The actual writing of the report
• The different parts of your report

THE PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
• About Project Progress Report (PPRs)
• Checklist for writing a Project Progress Report (PPR)
• Flash reports

Fund Raising Realities and Strategies: Lessons Learnt at the NGO Cafe

This page has a number of useful realities and strategies in NGO Fund Raising.

Example:

The Reality: Easier to get money for one event than for a sustained long-term programme

The Strategy: Develop a comprehensive long-term programme, but break it into smaller chunk sized bits to seek funding for each part, from the same or sometimes different sources

NGO Fund Raising Strategies
As the programmes and projects of NGOs expand, the need for money to run their operations becomes all the more critical. Much of this comes from third party funding organizations, either in the country where the NGO operates, or in OECD countries that assist projects in developing countries.

This NGO Cafe feature was created to collate current thinking and resources on the topic. These are strategies for fund raising in general, and the Cafe itself does not disburse funds to NGOs.

* Fund Raising Realities and Strategies: Lessons Learnt at the NGO Cafe
* Writing Successful Proposals: Some working strategies
* Finding Sponsors - Preparing for a Fund raising campaign