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Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs/Civil Society In the Developing World
The document is meant to provide very basic guidelines for small NGOs in the developing world regarding fund-raising, and to point to other resources. By small NGOs, I mean organizations that may have only one paid staff member, or are run entirely by volunteers; and may or may not have official recognition by the government.

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NGO Management Library

Links to materials classified under the following headings:

General Resources
Organisational Development
Performance Management
Managing Finances
Developing Human Resources
Communication and Marketing

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal - Net-NGO.com
This Proposal Guide has been created to provide both instructions on how to write a funding proposal and actual examples of a completed proposal. The Guide is designed as a tool for Non-Government Organizations and other organizations to learn more about the actual proposal writing process.

A Guide to Fundraising
Non-profit organisations in the South are steadily becoming more professional. But there are still vast differences between organisations and their levels of capacity.

To help in the process of professionalisation this guide for local NGOs has been put together, including the following topics:

* The process of professionalism
* The planning of a project
* Finding money for the project

How to Write a Mission Statement
A short guide to mission statements from The Grantsmanship Centre.

At the very least, your organization’s mission statement should answer three key questions:

1. What are the opportunities or needs that we exist to address? (the purpose of the organization)
2. What are we doing to address these needs? (the business of the organization)
3. What principles or beliefs guide our work? (the values of the organization)

Dilbert ’s mission statement generator
“Our challenge is to assertively administrate timely resources and authoritatively integrate enterprise-wide products while promoting personal employee growth.”

This online tool generates an optimal combination of adverbs, verbs, adjectives and nouns for a professional sounding yet perfectly meaningless mission statement. Guaranteed.