Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on how to put HR policies into practice.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on conducting staff performance reviews.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on key personnel.

Implementation Tip for USAID Partners on HR Policy Essentials for Recipients of USAID Funding.

Part Three, “Connecting with Donors,” of NPI's Going the Distance focuses on various communication modes with donors, such as developing and delivering elevator speeches, writing capability and systems (capacity) statements and connecting with donors.

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

Civicus toolkit on handling media; Karen Hurt; Toolkit

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.