This searchable database contains technical and program-related materials, including U.S. Government forms, to support organizational development and institutional strengthening.
Toolkit aimed at strengthening writing within an organization; Tips, tools and examples for strengthening writing within your organization. Sections include:Notice Boards; Memos; Letters, Faxes, and Emails; Minutes and Reports
Basic tips and tools for effective writing
Describes guidelines that are used by independent auditors in performing recipient-contracted audits required by USAID agreements with non-U.S. recipient organizations. These organizations are referred to as ""recipients"" or ""foreign recipients"" throughout the Guidelines. ""Agreements"" or ""awards"" are defined as USAID-funded grants, contracts, cooperative agreements and loans. The guidelines also provide recipients with help in selecting independent auditors to perform the audits.
Civicus toolkit on how organizations can produce their own media; Karen Hurt; Toolkit
Nonprofit organizations are now continuously being challenged to be more strategic in their communications efforts. Communications activities must add up to more than a series of isolated events such as the dissemination of an occasional publication or press release. Being strategic requires that nonprofits be more deliberate, innovative, savvy, and less reactive in their communications practice. Nonprofits are encouraged to regard communications as essential to their overall success and integrate it throughout their organizations.Nonprofits need ways to better understand their current strategic communications performance and capacity, and to gain a realistic sense of what is possible in terms of developing their communications functions. Strategic communications audits are one tool that can help to meet this need.