Comprehensive checklist to assist organizations in developing the tools and resources needed to manage human resources effectively.

Civicus toolkit on how organizations can produce their own media; Karen Hurt; Toolkit

Sample Employee Agreement covering salary and human resource issues (such as annual/sick leave, allowances, etc.).

AED's Employee Appraisal Report, which establishes an employee's job responsibilities, clarifies employer's expectations, opens a dialogue between employee and employer, and sets certain specific actions to appraise an employee's performance.

Sample Timesheet outlining hours worked, leave taken and projects charged.

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.