management resources for community media

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.

Micropower and Pirate Radio Kiosk - Seizing the Airwaves : A free radio handbook

A collection of texts from the micro radio movement in the USA. The preface, by Stephen Dunifer sets the tone:
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The One to Watch
Edited by Bruce Girard
The Internet and other new ICTs are changing radio in the developing world. But far from making it less relevant, they are opening up new possibilities.

The cases presented in this book are among the first examples of the convergence of radio and new ICTs for development, and the book underscores the significant potential of the combination. In this convergence, radio promises to take on even greater significance and value. For this reason, we believe that radio is the one to watch. Read the rest of this entry »

Produced as part of the Catia Pro-Poor Broadcasting Policy component, this paper provides an overview of community media legislation in Southern Africa. Edited by Nick Ishmael-Perkins.

Download Legislation and community media for Southern Africa: A Guide.

This publication on Public Service Broadcasting best practices is the result of a series of discussions, conferences, and seminars that have been held over the past few years on the role and future of public service broadcasting. The main impetus for this publication came from the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO, which provided the terms of reference for the sourcebook.

Download Public Service Broadcasting. A Best Practices Source Book: UNESCO-CI

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