management resources for community media

Overview of Planning - PDF
This toolkit is an overview of the different aspects involved in planning for an organisation or project. It should enable the user to make a clear distinction between strategic planning and action planning, both of which are dealt with in detail in separate toolkits. It also provides some ideas about techniques to use in planning. It should provide a fairly inexperienced planning team in any organisation with a clear picture of what planning should involve, and of how planning links to monitoring and evaluation. A further toolkit deals with monitoring and evaluation in detail.

Also in Word

La Vue d’ensemble de la planification (Word) ou (PDF)

Descripción general de la planificación (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

Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change

This report by Alfonso Gumucio gathers a collection of fifty “case stories,” brief descriptions of experiences of communication for social change that were selected for their participatory approaches.

Download the PDF in English

Browse an HTML version in English

Available in French (PDF)

Available in Spanish (PDF)